The lead doctor who sold Matthew Perry 20 vials of ketamine in the weeks before the Friends star’s overdose was sentenced to 30 months in prison today as part of a plea deal.
ABC News reports Salvador Plasencia also surrendered his medical license, will serve two years of supervised release, and pay a fine of $5,600.
More from the Washington Post:
Plasencia, an urgent care clinic operator known in court documents as Dr. P., was initially charged alongside four others in August 2024 following an investigation into the “Friends” actor’s fatal overdose at age 54 the previous year.
In exchange for the guilty plea to four counts of distributing ketamine, prosecutors dropped other charges against Plasencia, including falsifying medical records.
Plasencia was not accused of selling Perry the specific dose of ketamine that investigators believe killed the actor, but he admitted to selling large quantities of the drug to the actor.
The prosecutor’s office released a statement which read, in part, “Rather than do what was best for Mr. Perry – someone who had struggled with addiction for most of his life – [Plasencia] sought to exploit Perry’s medical vulnerability for profit.”
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