The actor Matthew Perry died on October 28, 2023 He was 54 years old and his lifeless body was found in the jacuzzi of his home in Los Angeles due to the effects of ketamine and the autopsy report also initially alluded to the actor’s coronary artery disease, but The investigation has continued over the past eight months.
Now, ‘People’ magazine points to an important turn and “several people” could be accusedwith which investigators are now focusing on the origin of the substance that caused a fatal overdose to the ‘Friends’ star.
News from the investigation after the death of Matthew Perry
Numerous American media outlets echo this Thursday the important news that has come to light in recent hours and that could implicate “several people” in the death of actor Matthew Perry, who may have provided “a secondary source” to the substance that appeared in the preliminary reports, although it will be the Federal Prosecutor’s Office that will have to make the final decision on whether or not to file charges, according to ‘People’.
Now, investigators add this radical twist to the investigations after what was pointed out by the conclusions of the autopsy carried out when the protagonist of ‘Friends’ was found lifeless in the jacuzzi of his mansion in Los Angeles. At that moment, the County Medical Examiner’s Office of the Californian city focused on the opioid buprenorphine and artery disease coronary arteries of the interpreter, which caused the investigation to be closed in December, but the police have continued with the inquiries and in May new possible lines of investigation were opened to clarify the facts.
The key, for the US authorities, is to know who or who allowed the actor to access the substances that caused him to overdose, which In November it was treated as accidental. According to the aforementioned magazine, judicial sources assure that in the coming days we could have news about the possible charges presented and that change in the case would be made official, conditioned by the investigations carried out by the Los Angeles Police and agents of the ‘Drug Enforcement Administration’ (The Drug Enforcement Administration).
The main unknowns after the death of Matthew Perry
Although the investigation by local and federal agents will end soon and could clear up doubts, there are still two key questions on the authorities’ table: who are the people through whom he could access the substances and in what context it occurred. It is worth remembering, on the other hand, that Matthew Perry had told in the memoirs he published in 2022, ‘Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing’, his addictions and also the amount of money he had to pay to move forward and leave behind that dark episode, which according to his testimony was closed in 2021 after investing 9 million dollars in his rehabilitation.
Only two years later, in 2023, he appeared lifeless and according to ‘El Concierto’, the coroner’s report concluded that “he had been clean for 19 months”, something that could also have been decisive in opening new lines of investigation and leaving aside the only possibility that it was an accidental death, but this Chilean media also emphasizes that he would be “taking tamoxifen to lose weight and would use patches to give up smoking”. ‘People’ magazine also emphasizes another note that is made and that refers to “the duration of ketamine in the body, around 4 hours”which raises doubts about the origin of the substance that caused the death of the popular actor.
In these previous reports it was also explained that he was undergoing treatment against depression using ketamine, but doubts are also raised by the time he had not received this substance and because he had to do it under medical supervision, so the Prosecutor’s Office will have to determine in the coming weeks if you file charges against one or “several people”according to what the agents in charge of reopening the case explain to determine where and through whom Perry had access to the substance.
