{"id":9884,"date":"2026-05-27T21:03:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T21:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=9884"},"modified":"2026-05-27T21:03:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T21:03:12","slug":"matthew-perrys-live-in-assistant-gets-more-than-3-years-in-prison-for-role-in-actors-drug-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=9884","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Perry\u2019s live-in assistant gets more than 3 years in prison for role in actor\u2019s drug death"},"content":{"rendered":"

By FRED SHUSTER<\/strong> | City News Service<\/p>\n

The former live-in personal assistant to Matthew Perry was sentenced Wednesday in downtown Los Angeles to three years, five months behind bars for injecting the \u201cFriends\u201d actor with the multiple doses of ketamine that killed him in October 2023.<\/p>

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Kenneth Iwamasa, 61, of Toluca Lake \u2014 the last of five defendants indicted in the case to be sentenced \u2014 was also ordered to serve two years in supervised release and pay a $10,000 fine.<\/p>\n

The judge excoriated Iwamasa before imposing sentence.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou were privy to Mr. Perry\u2019s addiction (yet) continued to obtain the drug and inject him,\u201d U.S. District Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett said from the bench. \u201cYour conduct was reckless.\u201d<\/p>\n

After administering the fatal dose to Perry, Iwamasa \u201cleft him alone for quite some time,\u201d and upon returning and finding the actor dead, took steps to get rid of evidence, the judge said.<\/p>\n

Iwamasa pleaded guilty in August 2024 to one count of conspiracy to distribute ketamine causing death and agreed to cooperate in the investigation. He was the first of the defendants to plead guilty in the case.<\/p>\n

Lisa Ferguson, Perry\u2019s former longtime business manager and current executor of his estate, told the court that Iwamasa had worked as the actor\u2019s personal assistant for one year and had attempted to make himself \u201cindispensable\u201d by illegally procuring and administering the drugs Perry desired.<\/p>

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\u201cYou didn\u2019t care,\u201d Ferguson said. \u201cYou were now indispensable. You were Matthew\u2019s drug supplier \u2026 you are the monster that killed him. \u2026 You preyed on a vulnerable, kind, sensitive man.\u201d<\/p>\n