'FRIENDS' STAR MATTHEW PERRY SUSPECT KILLER DOCTOR ESCAPES JAIL TIME IN HOLLYWOOD FIASCO
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 17 January 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
One of the doctors who pleaded guilty to supplying ketamine to actor Matthew Perry, leading to his overdose death, avoids jail time, being sentenced to eight months of home confinement.
Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett also sentenced Dr. Mark Chavez to three years of supervised release. Chavez is the second of the five defendants to be sentenced in connection with Perry’s death.
In his 2022 memoir, "Friends, Lovers, and the Big, Terrible Thing," Matthew Perry claimed to have been to rehab 15 times, detoxed 65 times, and spent about $7 to $9 million trying to get sober.
Two years after his near-death experience, Matthew Perry went to a rehab facility in Switzerland. He admitted to faking pain symptoms to get OxyContin during COVID.
He was also getting daily Ketamine infusions. Ultimately, it was Ketamine that killed him.
On October 28, Matthew Perry went to his country club to play a game of Pickleball with friends. Perry returned to his home after the game and was seen by his assistant, who was leaving the house to run errands.
At 4 p.m., the assistant returned home and found Perry floating face down in the heated end of the pool.
Paramedics pulled Perry out of the pool and pronounced him dead at the scene.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.7 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:11.5 | It never ends with Hollywood justice. |
| 0:16.3 | Matthew Perry, the star of the iconic Friends series, dead in his hot tub because of doctors and enablers |
| 0:24.9 | that allowed him to die. Yes, he bears some responsibility too. We know that. But what about |
| 0:31.9 | the others that let it happen, that made it happen? They are skating justice. Is it because they're rich, high profile, |
| 0:41.6 | or just part of the Hollywood Maylu? I'm Nancy Grace. This is crime stories. I want to thank you |
| 0:47.2 | for being with us. That's right. In the last days, Matthew Perry's ketamine doctor skates escapes jail and a shock ruling as the court |
| 0:58.3 | hears how he is driving Uber for a living. So good. That is a blessing to him to drive Uber for a living. |
| 1:10.0 | He should be mopping floors in the penitentiary. |
| 1:13.7 | Matthew Perry is dead because of him. And I wonder how many other people he prescribed ketamine |
| 1:19.8 | too. One of the doctors caught up in the criminal fallout surrounding the friend's legend Matthew Perry's ketamine death, |
| 1:30.9 | some would call it a murder, has avoided jail time. What actually happened to Matthew Perry? |
| 1:39.0 | Let me start with the 911 call. Listen. |
| 1:43.3 | Answer 23. Let's see 23. You're my call. Listen. Answer 23, recipe 23. |
| 1:44.5 | You're not going to be on radio. |
| 1:50.2 | In response to the drowning. |
| 1:51.8 | Cross the circuit dress. |
| 1:54.6 | Answer 23, recipe 23. |
| 1:55.8 | You can't tell a lot, but I learned something significant. |
| 2:02.9 | Let's hear that one more time, Sid. |
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