Matthew Perry’s disgraced doctor who’s been charged in connection to the late actor’s death was spotted at his California clinic.
Dr. Salvador Plasencia, 42, who was charged along with Dr. Mark Chavez in connection with the death of the Friends star, was seen outside his Malibu Canyon Urgent Care clinic on Monday in photos obtained by DailyMail.com.
He donned an all black outfit and blue sneakers as he looked toward the ground outside his office. Plascencia is listed as a ‘trained’ medical professional in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics on the clinic’s website.
Perry suffered a fatal ketamine overdose in October 2023 after he was found unresponsive in the hot tub of his Los Angeles home by his assistant Kenneth Iwamasa.
It’s alleged Chavez sold ketamine lozenges to Plasencia, who is accused of then providing them to Perry.
Although both physicians were charged for their roles in his death, Plasencia and Chavez have ‘zero restrictions’ on their licenses and ‘can prescribe serious medications to anyone,’ TMZ previously reported.
The California State Medical Board confirmed in a statement, obtained by the outlet, that ‘both licenses are current and active and the Board has not imposed any restrictions on them.’
Plasencia is accused of texting Chavez ‘I wonder how much this moron will pay’ when he learned Perry was seeking ketamine. He has pleaded not guilty to his charges.
Dr. Salvador Plasencia, 42, who was charged in connection death to Matthew Perry’s death, was seen outside his Malibu Canyon Urgent Care clinic on Monday in photos obtained by DailyMail.com
Perry suffered a fatal ketamine overdose in October 2023 after he was found unresponsive in the hot tub of his Los Angeles home by his assistant Kenneth Iwamasa
In one instance, Plascenica worked with Chavez to charge Perry $2,000 for a vial of ketamine that cost $12, after he became increasingly desperate to get his hands on the drug.
Meanwhile, Chavez, 54, entered a guilty plea for his role in the overdose in October. He faces up to 10 years in prison, even with a plea deal. He is set to be sentenced on April 2, 2025.
Prior to his court appearance, Chavez agreed to stop practicing medicine, and handed his passport to authorities.
Prosecutors offered lesser charges to Chavez and two others in exchange for their cooperation in going after other targets they deemed more responsible for the overdose death.
Jasveen Sangha, 41, better known as the ‘Ketamine Queen’ of north Hollywood, has been identified as the alleged dealer who supplied the fatal drug.
Plascencia realized the actor could die when he saw him ‘freeze up’ from an overdose just days before his death, prosecutors claimed.
He soon realized the 17 Again actor’s life was hanging by a thread when he suffered a seizure during an overdose a mere 16 days before he died.
‘Let’s not do that again,’ Plascencia told Perry’s assistant nervously.
His assistant, Iwamasa has since admitted he was the one who administered the fatal doses to the actor, after being trained how to deliver them by Plascencia.
He donned an all black outfit and blue sneakers as he looked toward the ground outside his office. Plasencia was charged along with Dr. Mark Chavez
Plascencia is listed as a ‘trained’ medical professional in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics on the clinic’s website. (Pictured: Malibu Canyon Urgent Care)
It’s understood Chavez sold ketamine lozenges to Plasencia, who is accused of then providing them to Perry
On October 4 of that year Iwamasa reported that he had successfully injected Perry, noting that he ‘found the sweet spot but trying different places led to running out’ of ketamine.
The affidavit claims that Perry spent $55,000 on ketamine supplied by Plascencia in the two months before he died, and that Iwamasa injected Perry with 27 shots of ketamine in just five days.
Iwamasa would relay Perry’s requests in coded language, referring to bottles of ketamine as ‘Dr Pepper’, ‘cans’, and ‘bots’ via encrypted messaging apps.
At one point he asked if he could pay with ‘something besides cash’ because ‘it’s hard to get to the bank on the fly with all that’s going on which happens so fast now.’
But the doctors struggled to keep up with demand and Iwamasa turned to a friend of the actor, Eric Fleming, 54, to source extra supplies.
He in turn went to Hollywood’s alleged ‘Ketamine Queen’, who told Iwamasa ‘She only deals with high end and celebs. If it were not great stuff she’d lose her business.’
Plascencia (pictured with his wife) has pleaded not guilty to his charges
Meanwhile, Chavez, 54, entered a guilty plea for his role in the overdose in October. He faces up to 10 years in prison, even with a plea deal. He is set to be sentenced on April 2, 2025
Sangha sold dozens of vials of the drug to Iwamasa via Fleming and was so pleased with the size of his orders that she threw in some lollipops made of ketamine as an ‘add on’.
But she was well aware of the drug’s risks, prosecutors claim, after allegedly selling it to client Cody McLaury, just hours before his overdose death in 2019.
‘The ketamine you sold my brother killed him,’ a furious relative told her in a text message. ‘It’s listed as the cause of death.’
Iwamasa had originally relied on Plascencia to inject Perry in meetings which would usually take place at Perry’s home.
But on October 10 the three men met at a car lot in Long Beach where Plascencia injected Perry inside a parked car.
Two days later Plascencia issued his warning after Perry’s near-fatal overdose – but then handed Iwamasa with more bottles before leaving.
As the assistant’s expertise developed, Iwamasa was injecting Perry up to six times a day before finding him dead in his hot tub.
And as news of the beloved actor’s death filtered out that evening, Sangha ordered Fleming to ‘delete all our messages’.
Perry’s assistant, Kenneth Iwamasa, who found him dead in the hot tub, has since admitted he was the one who administered the fatal doses to the actor, after being trained how to deliver them by Plascencia. (Pictured: Iwamasa and Perry on August 28, 2023)
In his last post to his Instagram Perry shared images of himself at home in the hot tub where he would soon be found dead
Jasveen Sangha, 41, is better known as the ‘Ketamine Queen’ of north Hollywood. Prosecutors say she is the lynchpin for a ‘broad underground criminal network’ which supplied the Friends star the fatal dose
But police were on her trail and secured permission to raid her ‘drugs emporium’ home in March this year.
Agents found ‘significant quantities of illegal drugs, including approximately 1,978 grams of orange pills that field tested positive for methamphetamine, 79 bottles containing a clear liquid that field tested positive for ketamine, and various other suspect narcotics’ a court filing claims.
Prosecutors said Sangha was a ‘large volume drug dealer’ previously identified by the DEA, LAPD homicide detectives and the US Postal Inspection Service.
The actor had been using the drug through his regular doctor in a legal but off-label treatment for depression that has become increasingly common.
Perry struggled with addiction for years, dating back to his time on ‘Friends,’ when he became one of the biggest stars of his generation as Chandler Bing.
He starred alongside Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc and David Schwimmer for 10 seasons from 1994 to 2004 on NBC´s megahit sitcom.
