William Cash

The dark truth about Hollywood assistants

Matthew Perry (Getty Images) 
issue 24 August 2024

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Anew stop has been added to the map of Movie Star Homes and Crime Scenes, on sale at LAX airport: 18038 Blue Sail Drive, Pacific Palisades, the sleek single-storey $6 million ocean-view house where the Friends actor Matthew Perry was found floating in his hot tub last October. His death has revealed something of the dark world of LA’s celebrity staff.

Perry’s assistant, two doctors and LA’s ‘Ketamine Queen’ have been charged with supplying the drugs

Last week it was reported that Perry’s live-in assistant Kenneth Iwamasa injected his boss with ketamine before his death. While watching a movie around noon, the actor asked Iwamasa – part-butler, part-nurse and head of shopping (including meds and drugs) – for his third jab of the day. He reportedly told Iwamasa: ‘Shoot me up with a big one.’ Perry was always a master of the sarcastic one-liner.

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