Matthew Perry, like many rich people, died as a result of their wealth. Are they victims?
The Canadian actor Matthew Perry died in 2023 doing what he loved, enjoying the drugged euphoria he sought all his life in a hot tub overlooking the glittering Pacific Ocean. All but one of the five people who got him the huge doses of legal ketamine that helped kill him have pleaded guilty, with their sentencing hearings approaching.
Two of them were doctors, one was a woman known as the 'Ketamine Queen,' another ran a rehab, and the last was Perry's live-in assistant for decades. Only the Queen pled not guilty, a deal eluding her perhaps because the others agreed to testify.
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