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Matthew Perry’s doctor sentenced to prison for selling ketamine

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December 4, 2025

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Dr. Salvador Plasencia was sentenced to two and a half years in prison after pleading guilty to selling ketamine to Friends star Matthew Perry in the weeks before his death, though he did not provide the ketamine that killed him.

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