The 54-year-old “Mates” star Matthew Perry died final 12 months in October.

Los Angeles:

 A California physician and a lady charged with illegally supplying the drug ketamine to “Mates” star Matthew Perry earlier than his overdose dying will face trial in March, in response to court docket paperwork launched on Tuesday.

Dr. Salvador Plasencia, and Jasveen Sangha, whom authorities stated was a drug seller recognized to clients because the “ketamine queen,” have pleaded not responsible to expenses associated to the October 2023 dying of Perry.

An post-mortem decided that the 54-year-old died from “acute results” of ketamine and different elements that induced him to lose consciousness and drown in his sizzling tub.

Ketamine is a short-acting anesthetic with hallucinogenic properties, typically prescribed to deal with melancholy and anxiousness but in addition abused by leisure customers.

Perry had publicly acknowledged a long time of substance abuse, together with in the course of the years he starred as Chandler Bing on the hit Nineteen Nineties tv sitcom “Mates.”

Plasencia and Sangha are scheduled be tried collectively in federal court docket in Los Angeles beginning on March 4.

Three different defendants have agreed to plead responsible in reference to Perry’s dying.

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