Matthew Perry’s assistant sentenced to three years, five months in actor’s drug overdose death

Matthew Perry’s former personal assistant was sentenced to three years and five months in federal prison for giving the “Friends” star the ketamine injections that left him dead of an overdose in a hot tub back in 2023.

LOS ANGELES — Matthew Perry’s personal assistant was sentenced Wednesday to three years and five months in federal prison for giving the “Friends” star the ketamine injections that left the actor dead of an overdose in a hot tub back in 2023.

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Kenneth Iwamasa was also ordered to pay a $10,000 fine to the U.S. government and told to surrender to the authorities by noon July 17.

Iwamasa, 59, is the last of the five suspects who were charged in connection with Perry’s death Oct. 28, 2023. And during the sentencing, he got an earful from Perry’s stepfather, NBC “Dateline” correspondent Keith Morrison, who scolded him for betraying Perry and their family.