'FRIENDS' STAR MATTHEW PERRY SUSPECT KILLER DOCTOR ESCAPES JAIL TIME IN HOLLYWOOD FIASCO
episodePreviously titled “"FRIENDS" STAR MATTHEW PERRY SUSPECT KILLER DOCTOR ESCAPES JAIL TIME IN HOLLYWOOD FIASCO” — renamed by the publisher on Aug 3, 2026
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This is an iHeart Podcast. Guaranteed human. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. it never ends with hollywood justice matthew perry the star of the iconic friends series dead in his hot tub because of doctors and enablers that allowed him to die yes he bears some responsibility too we know that but what about the others that let it happen that made it happen They are skating justice. Is it because they're rich, high profile, or just part of the Hollywood milieu? I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. I want to thank you 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 hears how he is driving Uber for a living. So good.
What led to the sentencing of Matthew Perry's ketamine doctor?
That is a blessing to him to drive Uber for a living. He should be mopping floors in the penitentiary. Matthew Perry is dead because of him. And I wonder how many other people he prescribed ketamine to. One of the doctors caught up in the criminal fallout surrounding the Friends legend Matthew Perry's ketamine drug. death, some would call it a murder, has avoided jail time. What actually happened to Matthew Perry? Let me start with the 911 call.
Listen.
You can't tell a lot, but I learned something significant.
Let's hear that one more time, Sid.
Now, some of those numbers are universal. Sometimes you hear numbers across a police band or on an EMS that are specific to that region. But what I'm hearing that really jumps out at me is response to the drowning. So at the beginning, it was believed that the Friends star died of drowning because that's what was reported to them. But what do we really know? Take a listen to our friends at Crime Online.
Los Angeles medical examiner determined that 54-year-old Matthew Perry died from the acute effects of ketamine. Other contributing factors listed were drowning, coronary artery disease, and the effects of buprenorphine. Buprenorphine is used to treat opioid use disorder. The manner of death has been ruled an accident.
Okay, see, I'm a trial lawyer, and that is why the medical examiners and everybody at the crime lab would go hide under their desk when they saw my beat-up Honda pulling up, because they knew I was going to go through it line by line, literally. to make sense of what they wrote down in their scientific findings. What acute effects of ketamine, other contributing factors were drowning, coronary artery disease, used to treat opioid disorder, manner of death, accident, There's so much there. I could do a whole flow chart on that to try to explain all that to a jury. Luckily, we have experts with us. But first, I want to go to a special guest joining us, Miguel Melendez, joining us, senior writer for E.T.
Entertainment Tonight. Miguel. What a pleasure to have you on, man. This sent shockwaves through not only Hollywood, but across our country, because I'm going to follow this up with our shrink, Karen Stark. We think we know Matthew Perry. Why? Because we've seen him on the big screen. We've seen him on the little screen. We follow him in the tabloids. We think we know him and about his life. We've been following his struggle with addiction. And a lot of people can identify with that. If you haven't had that struggle in somebody you know, somebody close to you has had that struggle. So Matthew Perry was kind of like every man that was struggling with a lot. But to you, Miguel Melendez, I wanna go, before I get into Matthew Perry himself and how it ended up this way, I wanna talk to you about what happened
What surrounded the discovery of Matthew Perry dead in a hot tub leading up to that? Tell me about the discovery and what came out at the time that he was first discovered dead in the hot tub.
Right, so what we know the timeline is that at 11 a.m. Matthew had played pickleball. at 1 37 p.m is when matthew was last known to be alive by his personal live-in assistant who lived with him in the pacific policy's home he was off to run errands at 1 37 pm the living assistant returned home and found matthew floating face down in the jacuzzi the assistant jumped into the pool moved matthew into the sitting position on the steps of the pool and found him by the way in the on the heated side of the pool called 9-1-1
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–1:05
2
What led to the sentencing of Matthew Perry's ketamine doctor?
1:05–7:25
3
What were the circumstances surrounding Matthew Perry's death?
7:25–14:06
4
How did the medical examiners determine the cause of death?
14:06–25:38
5
What was the timeline of events leading to Matthew Perry's death?
25:38–30:16
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What role did Matthew Perry's assistant play in his life?
30:16–42:34
Speakers
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