August 19, 2024 • 40 mins
More details being revealed after the arrest of 5 people in the death of actor Mathew Perry. Federal Prosecutors allege that Perry first obtains ketamine from an unscrupulous doctor aiming to take advantage of the actor’s addiction issues. Dr. Salvador Plasencia teaches Perry’s live-in assistant, Kenneth Iwamasa how to administer the drug, and provides ketamine to both Perry and Iwamasa at exorbitant prices. When the drugs become too expensive, Perry and Iwamasa turn to street dealers Assistant Kenneth Iwamasa reaches out to several street dealers. Eric Fleming agrees to a deal, and turns to his supplier Jasveen Sangha, dubbed “The Ketamine Queen.” Fleming pays Sangha for the drugs with cash from Iwamasa.
In two weeks, Sangha provides Fleming and Iwamasa 50 vials of ketamine to distribute to Perry for $11,000. When news of Perry’s death begins to circulate, Sangha texts Fleming, “Delete all of our messages.”
Joining Nancy Grace Today:
- Neama Rahmani - Former federal prosecutor turned trial attorney, President of West Coast Trial Lawyers, Author: “Harvard to Hashtag”, WestCoastTrialLawyers.com, INSTAGRAM: @Neamarahmani, TWITTER: @NeamaRahmani
- Dr. Bethany Marshall - Psychoanalyst , Author: "Deal Breaker: When to Work on a Relationship and When to Walk Away,” featured in hit show: "Paris in Love" on Peacock https://www.drbethanymarshall.com/, Instagram & TikTok: drbethanymarshall, Twitter:@DrBethanyLive
- Mike McCormick - Owner and Lead Investigator of M.C.M. Investigations in Los Angeles, Ca, Fmr. LAPD, www.MCMInvestigations.com, Facebook: MCM Investigations,
- Dr. William Morrone - Medical Examiner, Toxicologist, Pathologist, opioid treatment expert, Author: “American Narcan: Naloxone & Heroin-Fentanyl associated mortality”
- Lauren Conlin \-Podcaster/Reporter/Host- Co-Host of Primetime Crime on YouTube. Website: www.popcrime.tv & primetimecrimeshow.com X- @Conlin_Lauren, Instagram- @LaurenEmilyConlin, YouTube: @PopCrimeTV
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace busted the so called glamorous
ketamine queen. Did she sell the deadly dose to beloved
friend star Matthew Perry At this hour, federal indictments going down.
(00:24):
I'm Nancy Grace, this is Crime Stories. Thank you for
being with us. Two doctors, two drug dealers, and Perry's
live in assistant charged in the death of friend star
Matthew Perry. Prosecutors claimed the defendants new Perry was struggling
with his addiction, but we're more concerned with making money
(00:47):
than his well being. A so called kennemye queen. Let
me tell you something, lady. That birkenbag and all those
Gucci clothes you're wearing that ain't gonna get you out
of this girl. Well, they don't have Burken and they
don't have Gucci behind bars. I hope you like the
(01:08):
color orange. Get used to it. This woman living in
the lap of luxury on the backs of drug addicts
and likely been doing it for years. In her rarefied
Hollywood environment to all the A list celebs who are
(01:31):
now quaking in their shoes that they're going to be
found out next. You don't think they've got this woman's
little black book. Oh yeah, they do. So who is
the so called ketamine queen and why is she living
off the misery of others? You know, sometimes people kid
(01:53):
themselves into thinking certain drugs are glamorous, you know, like
cocaine or ecstasy, designer drugs, ketamine. It's not glamorous. It
ended Matthew Perry under the water, dead in a hot
tub after years of fighting addiction, lying about hiding it,
(02:17):
paying tens of thousands of dollars to rehab only the
best the Betty Ford clinic, to this clinic, to that clinic,
that this specialist covering it up from the world so
he could maintain his Hollywood image. He suffered and died,
and this woman is sitting in her claw foot tub
(02:39):
with a birken bag on her foot. Woman, you know what,
It's not glamorous. Let me just kick it off right
now to doctor William Maroney. Doctor Maroney, listen to this.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Radio.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
One of droning.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Federal prosecutors alleged that Perry first obtains ketemine from an
unscrupulous doctor aiming to take advantage of the actor's addiction issues.
Doctor Salvador Placentia teaches Perry's living assistant, Kenneth Ewa Massa,
how to administer the drug and provides ketamine to both
Perry and Ewa Masa at exorbitant prices. When the drugs
become too expensive, Perry and Ewa Maasa turned to street dealers,
(03:30):
including jazzvin Songha dubbed the ketamine Queen.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
You know to doctor William Moroney joining me, renowned medical examiner, toxicologist, pathologist,
opioid treatment expert, and author of American Narcan that would
have saved the life of Prince and so many other
stars and people from opioid overdose, Doctor Moroney, somehow, it's
(03:55):
the misconception is flourished, as it did about Matthew Perry,
that ketamine and other so called designer drugs are glamorous.
They're not. All of those abusers end up in one place,
a cold slab in your office.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Explain, Ketamine is never really meant to be self administered,
and it's never really meant to be used in a
family setting or an ambulatory setting. It's a hallucinogen, it
causes sedation, and the FDA approved use of.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Ketamine is once a month.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
In his last day, according to testimony, three three times.
He was given ketamine injections the day he died. It's
meant to be given once a month under supervision during therapy.
Ketamine is a plan. And this is so out of control.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Okay, you know what. I appreciate all of that. But
what I I asked you, doctor, my longtime colleague and friend.
I asked you, is it Glammar Russ, because that's the
way it's betrayed. Hold on, if you can see your screen,
can you show me the dealer, the glam ketamine queen,
(05:18):
because she makes it all look so good. Okay, I've
seen that picture. Do you have another picture you can
show me? Okay, there that right there, How can you
It's hard to look at her and reconcile that that
woman right there, according to prosecutors, according to the state,
(05:41):
has heaped misery and suffering on so many people so
she could line her pockets her right there. Perry is
dead thanks to her, according to prosecutors, and all of
his friends. And I don't mean that as a play
(06:03):
on words. You've got this longtime friend, living assistant giving
him the dope. That's what it is. Dope. Until he dies,
everybody knew he was struggling with addiction. Everybody knew that.
Does this woman care? No, no drug dealer cares. What
does it do to a person, doctor.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Morony, Well, at higher doses than needed, it sedates you,
It drives your heart rate up, It can give you
a rhythmias that make you susceptible to sudden death, and
it prevents.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
You from moving.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Because it's an anesthetic, nothing can change the classification. It's
called a dissociate of anesthetic. Why would anybody take an anesthetic?
You can't think, you can't move, and eventually you can't breathe.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
So the whole problem.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Is people think they can get away with it. These
people are sold the idea that this is the answer.
At one point, it could have been heroin, It could
have been cocaine, could have been alcohol, stitutamine, and they say, okay,
when you need more, give me a call after one shot.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Eventually you need to hold on, doctor Moroney, because that's
exactly what happened right here. I'm trying to drink in
everything you're saying. I'm just a tryal lawyer. You're the professional,
the toxicologist, the pathologist, and you've even written the book
about use of opioids and drugs and how to save
(07:43):
people's lives to doctor Bethany Marshall, Doctor Bethany Marshall, Finally
somebody brings down the hammer on this drug operation. And
this is not, according to sources, the first person that
has lost their lives to the Please very people, listen,
doctor Bethany.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
The two lead defendants in this case are defendants Salvador
Placentia and defendant Jesseviine Sanya. Defendant Placentia was a medical doctor.
He worked with another medical doctor, defendant Mark Chavez, to
obtain ketmy. He then worked with mister Perry's live in
(08:23):
assistant defendant Kenneth Iwamasa to distribute that ketamine to mister Perry.
Sonya and the broker defendant Fleming saw this as an
opportunity to profit off of mister Perry. She sold approximately
fifty vials of ketamine for approximately eleven thousand dollars in cash.
(08:45):
She worked with a broker defendant, Eric Fleming, and also
the live in assistant defendant Iwamasa to distribute this kedemy.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
A tangled web of dopers, you know. Doctor Bethany Marshall
is joining us a high profile psychoanalyst author of deal
Breaker Doctor Bethany. I'm just thinking of all the drug
lords and dopers that I have prosecuted put behind bars
over all the years. You know, this woman we're looking at,
(09:15):
there's so glamorous and her high end lifestyle. She had
just traveled to Tokyo, Europe, all over the world. Have you, Bethany,
did you grow up on a farm you went with
your parents all around the world as a missionary? Correct?
Speaker 6 (09:33):
Yes, grew up in Central West Africa, Congo.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Okay, then you've seen a tick. I assume you know
bloods Absolutely, yes, that's who she is. Every time I
look at her, I see a tick, and they get
bigger and fatter as they suck the blood of their victim.
And that is what she was doing with Matthew Perry.
And I guarantee you he's not the first.
Speaker 6 (09:58):
You know, she was going out selling one more vile
and one more vile to go out and buy one
more Airmetas bag or Gucci pair of shoes, or you know,
she was just really satisfying her own greed. And what
makes me so sad, Nancy, is that people suffering from
some substance abuse disorders are extraordinarily vulnerable. Matthew Perry was vulnerable.
(10:20):
He was chasing that next high. His brain was craving
the addiction. He had a long history of substance abuse disorder.
And by the way, so do About fifteen percent of
all Americans over the age of twelve have suffered from
a substance abuse disorder in this past year.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Can you say that again? I thought I didn't hear
you correctly.
Speaker 6 (10:40):
What more than fifteen percent of all Americans over the
age of twelve have suffered from a substance abuse disorder
in this past year. Of those Americans, only six point
seven percent of them ever received.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Listen to this, everybody, Mike McCormick joining me, owner, lead
investigator mcmm mother c Charlie m Mother Investigations, former LAPD
over twenty five years. Listen to this, Mike. It is
reported that the Ketamine Queen supplied twenty five vials of
(11:21):
ketamine four days to Parry just four days before his death,
and boasted as she sold it to him as it
being a high quality drug, adding it's unmarked, but it's
amazing now. Immediately after his death, is reported she messaged
(11:44):
her co conspirators, according to the state, stating delete all
our messages, and then she goes off on a whirlwind
tour I think it was Japan, but flying off on
a private jet, laid all your messages, destroy the evidence
she knew. She knew Mike McCormick. And there's no way
(12:07):
in hub l that there's not a string of other
Hollywood celebs that are her clients.
Speaker 7 (12:14):
That's true. It's going to be probably a lot more
suspects brought into this death of Matthew Perry as time
goes by. I don't think it's limited to just the
amount of people that have been in the news in
the last few days. I think there's going to be more.
(12:36):
I think the assistant Kenneth definitely didn't do his job.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
He should have.
Speaker 7 (12:45):
He should have brought in the family members and made
them aware of what the extent of the problem is.
And we have been able to actually save Matthew from
this situation, from dying of an overdose, you know.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
But instead of trying to save him, Mike, everyone enabled
him with friends like those I mean listen.
Speaker 8 (13:12):
Perry turned to a street dealer, Eric Fleming, who sourced
his ketymine from a drug trafficker known as the Ketemine
Queen Jasvine Sangha. The ketymine supplied by Sanha would ultimately
be the dose that took Matthew Perry's life. Someone knew
that the ketamine she supplied could be deadly.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Despite this knowledge.
Speaker 8 (13:35):
She continued to sell ketamine and methamphetamine throughout Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Now joining me high profile lawyer, former federal prosecutor, Nima Romani,
President West Coast Trial Lawyers, author of Harvard to hashtag Nima.
It was slow in coming, but finally the Fed's hand
down a major indictment. I'm happy they did it, But
(14:00):
do you think if they had acted earlier, Perry's life
could have been saved and probably the lives of many
others well.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Probably man See, let's not forget that Sanga was responsible
for another drug related death in twenty nineteen, Cody McKellen,
and it was kedemene that she provided.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
That killed them that same day. And the political.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Reality is that they spend a lot more time investigating
this case because of who the victim was. You have
a celebrity victim obviously got a lot of attention, and
that's why you had federal resources as well as local
resources LAPD put on this case to bring hopefully the
perpetrators to justice.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
They distributed approximately twenty vials of ketamine to mister Perry
in exchange for fifty five thousand dollars in cash. Defendant
Placentia saw this as an opportunity to profit off of
mister Perry. He wrote in a text message in September
twenty twenty three, quote, I wonder how much this moron
(15:02):
will pay. He also stated in text messages that he
wanted to be mister Perry's sole source of supply. He
wrote in a text message that he wanted to be
mister Perry's quote go to for drugs.
Speaker 9 (15:23):
I wonder how much this moron will pay? Let's find out.
Text messages reveal the motivation of those charged in Matthew
Perry's death.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Joining us right now, Lauren Colin, investigative reporter and star
of Crime Time on YouTube, Lauren Colin, thank you for
being with us. So who while they're literally killing him
like a tick, just sucking his blood, taking his money
(15:55):
as they know his condition is quote spiraling out of control.
They that they're communications not me, their words not mine.
They actually call him a moron. Matthew Perry, who was
a child tennis prodigy who goes to LA and lands
on his feet, ending up with the role of a
(16:17):
lifetime on friends. That that moron who said.
Speaker 10 (16:22):
That, Lauren Conlin, Yes, this is doctor Salvator Placentia who
said this, And Nancy, let's not forget that. Sixteen days
before Matthew Perry's death, Salvator Placentia shot up Matthew Perry
with a very large dose of ketamine, which caused Matthew
Perry to freeze up, and doctor Placentia said to Kenneth Ewamasa, hm,
(16:45):
we better not do that again. Well, we know that
that was not the case, and just very quickly Nancy
going back to jazz beene Sangha as Nima said. She
was found to be responsible for the twenty nine nineteen
death of a thirty three year old young man, Cody
mclory in LA and also Matthew Perry was said to
(17:07):
have met her in rehab along with Brooke Mueller.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Guys, speaking of Matthew Perry quote freezing up listen.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
Defendant Placentia knew full well the danger of what he
was doing. In fact, on one occasion he injected mister
Perry with kenmine and he saw mister Perry freeze up
and his blood pressure spike. Despite that, he left additional
vials of ketamine for defendant Iwamasa to administer to mister Perry.
(17:39):
Of course, defendant Ewa Masa had no medical training to
speak of.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Doctor William Maroney joining me, renowned toxicologist and pathologist, author
of American Narcan who has devoted his career to fighting
opioid and substance abuse. Doctor Moroney, I've heard it stated
in several publications and several points of evidence that they
(18:03):
had observed or knew of Matthew Perry quote freezing up.
I'm not sure what that means, but it didn't stop
them from giving him nearly thirty miles of ketamine just
before his death.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
What it actually comes down to is ketamine is an anesthetic,
So if you give too much, you don't just relax somebody.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
They do freeze up.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
You freeze somebody up at the side of their pool
or in their kitchen. You don't have a crash cart,
you don't have anything else. You just have to wait
it out or possibly call nine to one one. They
were lucky that they didn't kill him earlier, but the
end result is the same because of the disregard for life.
(18:50):
As they gave him more, he became more dependent. And
then the final day when he died, he got three injections.
This is a drug proved to get once a month
from a psychiatrist, and they were giving it daily, which
is more dangerous than anything.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Back to him freezing up. That is what going into
a seizure.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
What is that muscle stiffness and the early stages of anesthesia,
anesthesia making him fall asleep on purpose, because that's how
we use it when we take people to surgery.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
How exactly did the scheme wart listen?
Speaker 11 (19:32):
Doctor Salvador Placentia obtains ketamine for Perry from doctor Mark Chavez.
Chavez writes a fraudulent prescription for an unwitting patient and
lies to wholesale ketamine distributors to obtain both liquid and
lozenge forms of ketamine for doctor Placentia, who in turns
dispenses them to Perry on at least seven occasions, despite
(19:54):
noting Perry's addiction is quote spiraling out of control. When
Placentia is ord to turn over Perry's medical records, the
doctor falsifies and alters several reports to show a purported
treatment plan for Perry.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Okay, back to Lauren Conlin joining us from Prime Time
Crime on YouTube. Lauren, So let me understand this. They
state amongst themselves that his addiction is spiraling out of
control their words, not mine, but they continue and they
call it a treatment plan. Why did they name it
(20:29):
a treatment plan? Sang Hay is just basically a dope dealer,
just like a doper on the street that a couple
of blocks from the elementary school. She's no different. So
what was the so called treatment plan?
Speaker 10 (20:45):
This is absolutely absurd, Nancy. And let's not forget that
Matthew Perry just started working with these doctors a month
prior to his death, So this quote unquote treatment plan,
it was all made up. They literally just did this
for money. And it also was stated in the press
conference that these doctors were selling him vials that they
(21:08):
paid twelve dollars for for two thousand dollars. And Kenneth
Ewamasa confirmed with the LAPD and the DEA that the
three days before Matthew Perry's death, he was administering between
six and eight doses of kenemine a day. And you know,
like doctor Moroney said, the last day he was alive.
(21:28):
He had three, but the days leading up to it
it was between six and eight doses.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
And if the.
Speaker 10 (21:33):
Doctors prescribed that, oh boy, I would be shocked.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Doctor Bethany, the price differential. You can get the same
amount of ketamine on the street for twelve bucks, and
he's paying two thousand dollars for one vial, Doctor Bethany,
speaking of blood sucking ticks. Not only do they aid him,
enable him to his own death, but they make fun
(21:59):
of him, overcharging him, gouging him. But then they call
him names and make fun of how much he will pay.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
In their text, Nancy, they had disregard and disdained for them,
But who are the morons? They killed their cash cow
in one month and now they're going to spend years
behind bars. So I think what really upsets me about
the situation. I'm thinking about a very wealthy patient in
my Beverly Hills practice struggling with addiction, and everybody tried
(22:30):
to provide drugs for him. I would get him into rehab,
then all of a sudden, the house manager would come
in and just leave drugs around the house. He would
get rid of the house manager, then he would get
a new girlfriend, who then would addict and hook them
again so he would take her shopping for jewelry. I mean,
he was a mark sitting out there in society because
(22:50):
of his substance abuse. So people who have these horrible
addictions like Matthew Perry, the people around them are bloodsucking
ticks to attract a whole network of people who just
see dollar signs all over the place, and they do
not care about the patient. Did you notice that picture
of doctor Placentia has UCLA Healthcare on his lab jacket,
(23:14):
UCLA on his lab coat. There it is a UCLA
health system. So under the guise of being a medical expert,
of caring, of the oath of do no harm, he
is actually extracting money from somebody, worsening that person's addiction,
knowing that that person's going to die, and so stupid
(23:35):
and more on it. He thinks he's not going to
get caught.
Speaker 9 (23:38):
One doctor notes Matthew Perry's addiction as spiraling out of control.
Still Perry is sold twenty mials of ketamine, totaling fifty
five thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Finally, federal indictments go down. I'm thrilled about the indictments,
but I wonder if they had been handed down against
this as I'm calling them blood sucking ticks that lived
off Matthew Perry and others. If it had happened earlier,
could his life and others have been saved? Right now,
(24:18):
I'm just glad the charges occurred. Now we're talking about
other potential victims.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
Listen, Doctor Salvador Placentia's exorbitant prices pushed Matthew Perry to
seek a new ketamine source. Assistant Kenneth Ewa Massa reaches
out to several street dealers. Eric Fleming agrees to a
deal and turns to his supplier, Josvin Songhaw for ketamine
from her North Hollywood stash house. Fleming pays Songhaw from
the drugs with cash from Ewa Masa. Songha is well
(24:45):
aware of the dangers of ketamine. One of her previous buyers,
Cody mclory, died of an overdose on the drug four
years earlier.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
We were just talking about a guy named Cody mcclauri,
also dead.
Speaker 12 (25:00):
Jazzvien Songha sells Cody mclowery several vials of ketamine. Later
that same day, mclowry's family finds him dead. A family
member tells Sogha her ketamine caused mclowry's overdose death, and
Songha google's can ketamine be listed as a cause of death? Nevertheless,
Songhak continues peddling ketamine and other drugs from her stash house.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
You know that's the thing, Doctor William Maroney, renowned toxicologist.
Dr Maroney, dopers don't care. The family goes to sing
y'all and says, you did this to Cody, and she's like,
oh okay, Google, Google, Google, can kennymy be listed as
(25:44):
a cod not? Oh my stars, I'm never doing this again.
It's how this horrible effect. Cody is dead. No, she
just wants to find out is basically she gonna be
implicated and the death of Cody McLaury. They see jets
off to Japan with burken bags on both arms.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
I mean really, Ketamine is listed as cause of death
all across America. Fentanyl is listed as death cause of
death all cause America. Methanphetamine. We're very specific about cause
of death. We mention the chemical if it's a chemical,
and we mentioned the medicine if it was prescribed and
(26:26):
it was ethical. There are five manners of death, and
his death is considered an accident because the CDC says
drug overdoses are accidents. But we'll have to see if
in a court that's a different definition that it was
(26:47):
caused because somebody else did the injections.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
So there's a play between the picate.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Clearly, always ketamine will be listed as a cause of death.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Always name it. Romani, former federal prosecutor turned trial lawyer Nima.
Why is it that all the so called rich, glamorous
people get sweetheart deals? Why is that if there is
a sweetheart deal on this bloodsucking tick song. Hey, I'm
going to do a backflip. You've got Cody mclory that
(27:23):
we know of, and now Matthew Perry. Well, are they
going to kind of deal with this woman?
Speaker 2 (27:29):
I don't think so, Nancy. Like I said, there's two
drug related deaths, and it's not just the ketamine we're
talking about, which is a Schedule three And even though
because death as a fifteen year max it's not methamphetamine,
there are very significant sentence in guidelines. So because of
the myth, which is scheduled too, she's looking at a
potential life sentence if the fence cut her a deal.
(27:52):
It's only because she's going to identify her source. I
don't think that was medical grade ketamine. And obviously we
know in drug cases prosecutors they.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Want to work their way up the chain.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Kennemine is a huge problem in LA right now.
Speaker 9 (28:13):
Perry's live in assistant admitted to repeatedly injecting the actor
with ketamine without medical training, and administered multiple injections. The
very day Perry died.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
One celeb after the next dead from overdose, probably drugs
given to them by friends. Listen to this now.
Speaker 13 (28:38):
Today, How are you doing it? In security?
Speaker 9 (28:41):
From burdle Hilton h right?
Speaker 6 (28:42):
What going on?
Speaker 13 (28:42):
I need a paramedic. Farently I've got a forty six
year old femail. I'm found in the bathroom to follow
God right now, but they're requesting paramedic. Okay, panel fell
about them? I love Rimscannal. I'm not sure she fell.
She was in the bathroom with the water four four
three four. I'm sorry, we had a room four three
fourth fieen, Okay, they're not us or anything else. That's
room four three forty yeah, Okay, we don't know if she
was contract of breathing at all. Apparently she wasn't breathing
(29:04):
and she's y six year old. She was not breathing.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Yeah, Whitney Houston, that's a nine to one one call.
Found in a luxe hotel submerged in water. Why because
of drugs? And there's so many others. Amy Winehouse a
brilliant shooting star dead. Of course, Anna Nicole Smith. All
(29:27):
of her friends fed her drugs, drugs, drugs until the
very end, leaving behind children. Chris Farley, the funny guy.
Everybody loves Farley. People took advantage of him until he
was dead. Heath Ledger, the joker, leaving behind a little girl.
(29:52):
Of course, let's just start at the beginning with this guy.
He had a fishing tackle box full of drugs? Who
gave him that? Janice Jotham, what a star od And
of course no loose is complete without him. Belushi the
(30:14):
ultimate funny guy, little peep, just don't forget him. Kurt
Cobain Nirvana, leaving behind Francis Bean and of course one
of the biggest stars ever, Michael Jackson like just a brilliant,
(30:36):
burning talent dead and of course my favorite Prince. He
could have lived if he had been given a narcan
injection that didn't happen. Everyone stood by, lived off his
money and kept feeding him drugs. We were Phoenix gone
(30:59):
so young, de viperome. Of course, Whitney voice like an angel.
Vern Troyer, you can't help but love this guy, wrestler China.
It just we don't even have enough time to go
through all the celebrities that have lost their lives, not
(31:23):
just because of drugs, but because of a tight little
circle of so called friends. And back to Mike McCormick
joining US owner lead investigator mcm Investigations, former LAPD over
twenty five years at mcminvestigations dot com. Mike, that's the
way it is in Hollywood, and the beat goes on
(31:43):
the day after Matthew Pierry's dead. Everybody's getting their supplies
from their friends. It it never ends.
Speaker 7 (31:51):
It never ends because of the suppliers and the people
involved walk the drugs. I don't know how I ended.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
You know too, Doctor Bethany Marshall joining US renow psychoanalyst.
You would think that after Cody McLaury was killed that
the so called ketamine queen, I go, you know what,
It's not worth it, how many more birking bags do
I need? How many more private planes do I need
to take to Japan or Europe? It's not worth my
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clients dying. It didn't stop her.
Speaker 6 (32:30):
Why, Nancy, she's homicidal. I mean, we really have to
think about that. That one picture where she has the
red lipstick, black T shirt, straight hair. Do you know
what it says, rip on her T shirt rest in peace
with a picture of Kobe Bryant underneath. I mean, perhaps
it's just I don't know. I design her T shirt
right there, rip cross guy with black classes. It tells
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me that on some levels, she really knew what she
was doing. She's wearing her crime. She's wearing her intention.
That watch that beautiful top, that Airmes bag. You know
that is the blood of her clients. The blood of
her clients, Nancy. I think it's easy to glamorize along
with her, that she has these beautiful outfits in the
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shoes and this, that and the other. She has sucked
this money, as so many people do with addicts out
of her client to their death. This even happens in
the homeless population, Nancy, where family members will addict homeless
people so that they can take their SSI checks. It
happens from high to low, low to high, all over
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the place.
Speaker 14 (33:38):
According to Matthew Perry, he had been cleaned for nineteen months,
but The Daily Mail reports the actor died from an
overdose of the party drug ketamine. According to the autopsy report,
a detective who attended the scene of Perry's death said, quote,
during my investigation, no alcohol, elicit drugs or drug paraphernalia
were found unquote. The Daily Mail also claims the fifty
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four year old was getting injections of the male hormone testosterone,
and an unnamed female associate claimed the injections were causing
him to be angry and mean for the last couple
of weeks.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Doctor William Maroney, if you could put this in regular
people talk in a nutshell, I've read your autopsy reports
like one sentence can be two paragraphs. Boil it down,
Boil it down. So Matthew Perry took the ketamine and
then he goes into a euphoric sedation state and his
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body can't fight back. When he goes under the water.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
There's high dose and lotos. You start going into sedation
and euphoria, but it doesn't stop. As the dose builds
up in you. That's where you go into frozen muscles.
You can't breathe, your body locks up, because that's what
it's really meant to do as an anesthetic.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
It is a pros so a euphoric sedation. And you
I wonder if he could feel himself going underwater and
there was nothing he could do about it, or look
there he is in the hot tub. To Nima Romani,
high profile lawyer, listen to this Songha was a quote
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large volume drug dealer and in the complaints we find
out that she would sell ketamine lollipops as an ad
on because his orders were so large. Now, after seizing
her phone, police apparently have found footage of her on
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her phone. That's pretty arrogant cooking up ketamine. She has
videoed herself cooking up ketamine and it just you know,
there's pictures she posts online, for instance, of her in
a private jet having caviat and champagne. Just before her arrest,
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she was sharing photos on Insta of her with her
knee purple hairdoo. Just she could not have cared less well.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
The answered she's on a strip of hole there with
a money gun. But you know, You're right, Kennymine is
a big time party drug here in Hollywood, and it's
not given with an ivy at a party.
Speaker 6 (36:22):
So what is.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Typically done is users are addicts to cook it and
they transform it into a white powdery substance like cocaine.
So when you said folks are sniffing each other at
these parties, they're sniffing cocaine and kenemine and not each other.
Sometimes it's even put in a nasal spray, but that's
primarily how it's used and abused in the party scene here.
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So the fact that Sanga is one of the world's
dumbest criminals who's videotaping herself processing these types of drugs
isn't surprising because I've seen criminal defendants do all sorts
of stupid things.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
You know, it's kind of hard to take in her
and her glamour lifestyle, and you juxtapose that against Matthew
Perry feeling himself going underwater and he's so immobile he
can't fight back. But doctor Bethany Marshall on Insta, this
woman posts herself enjoying caviar in a private jet lounge
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just after Perry dies. She's sipping leechy martinis at the
Mandarin Oriental in Tokyo, each suite about two thousand dollars
a night. A few weeks after that, she's sunning herself
by a pool and playa Del Carmen in Mexico, sharing selfies,
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drinking more cocktails. It goes on and on and on.
When she finally touches back down in the US, she
was lapping up the La lifestyle, having ivy drips and
lake night parties. End quote. Sound healing sessions helped me out,
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Doctor Bethany.
Speaker 6 (38:09):
Sounds very la to me. You know, she was corrupted
by greed and lack of concern for others. But Nancy,
we see this with Big Pharma, we see this with
the Sackler Family show. Let's throw them on the trash
heap of people who have become so greedy and their
lives got so big, and they earned billions of dollars,
and because of that, they did not care about the
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millions of Americans who died. These people who used drugs
to have control over others. It's like they're stealing. It's
like they're creeping through a window in another person's house,
taking the diamonds out of the safe going and just
gloating over the diamonds that they've gotten. They don't care
about the house, they don't care about the people in it,
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they don't care about the neurobiology of addiction, and they
don't really care about the wave of devastation that goes
outward and this person's life. Matthew Perry had many people
who love him. The public love him, we love him,
we're talking about him today. But their children, nieces, nephews, parents, cousins,
church members of people he was doing business with. It's
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wid spread devastation that you know. Sonier really didn't really
care about that. She just wanted to lead you, Martini,
and that was it. Talk about again moronic. It really
is moronic behavior.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
We haven't even gotten to the doctor, the drug lord
posing as a doctor, and as you see La Health
Jacket and all the others involved in Matthew Perry's debut.
This is where it leaves me. Those people that are
charged by the fans. Finally, they're no different than dopers
selling a twenty five dollars rock out on the street,
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no different. They just clean up better. Thank you to
all of our guests being with us tonight. Highlighting the
devastation of addiction. Nancy Grace signing off goodbye friend,
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace busted the so called glamorous
ketamine queen. Did she sell the deadly dose to beloved
friend star Matthew Perry At this hour, federal indictments going down.
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I'm Nancy Grace, this is Crime Stories. Thank you for
being with us. Two doctors, two drug dealers, and Perry's
live in assistant charged in the death of friend star
Matthew Perry. Prosecutors claimed the defendants new Perry was struggling
with his addiction, but we're more concerned with making money
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than his well being. A so called kennemye queen. Let
me tell you something, lady. That birkenbag and all those
Gucci clothes you're wearing that ain't gonna get you out
of this girl. Well, they don't have Burken and they
don't have Gucci behind bars. I hope you like the
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color orange. Get used to it. This woman living in
the lap of luxury on the backs of drug addicts
and likely been doing it for years. In her rarefied
Hollywood environment to all the A list celebs who are
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now quaking in their shoes that they're going to be
found out next. You don't think they've got this woman's
little black book. Oh yeah, they do. So who is
the so called ketamine queen and why is she living
off the misery of others? You know, sometimes people kid
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themselves into thinking certain drugs are glamorous, you know, like
cocaine or ecstasy, designer drugs, ketamine. It's not glamorous. It
ended Matthew Perry under the water, dead in a hot
tub after years of fighting addiction, lying about hiding it,
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paying tens of thousands of dollars to rehab only the
best the Betty Ford clinic, to this clinic, to that clinic,
that this specialist covering it up from the world so
he could maintain his Hollywood image. He suffered and died,
and this woman is sitting in her claw foot tub
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with a birken bag on her foot. Woman, you know what,
It's not glamorous. Let me just kick it off right
now to doctor William Maroney. Doctor Maroney, listen to this.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Radio.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
One of droning.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Federal prosecutors alleged that Perry first obtains ketemine from an
unscrupulous doctor aiming to take advantage of the actor's addiction issues.
Doctor Salvador Placentia teaches Perry's living assistant, Kenneth Ewa Massa,
how to administer the drug and provides ketamine to both
Perry and Ewa Masa at exorbitant prices. When the drugs
become too expensive, Perry and Ewa Maasa turned to street dealers,
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including jazzvin Songha dubbed the ketamine Queen.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
You know to doctor William Moroney joining me, renowned medical examiner, toxicologist, pathologist,
opioid treatment expert, and author of American Narcan that would
have saved the life of Prince and so many other
stars and people from opioid overdose, Doctor Moroney, somehow, it's
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the misconception is flourished, as it did about Matthew Perry,
that ketamine and other so called designer drugs are glamorous.
They're not. All of those abusers end up in one place,
a cold slab in your office.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Explain, Ketamine is never really meant to be self administered,
and it's never really meant to be used in a
family setting or an ambulatory setting. It's a hallucinogen, it
causes sedation, and the FDA approved use of.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Ketamine is once a month.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
In his last day, according to testimony, three three times.
He was given ketamine injections the day he died. It's
meant to be given once a month under supervision during therapy.
Ketamine is a plan. And this is so out of control.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Okay, you know what. I appreciate all of that. But
what I I asked you, doctor, my longtime colleague and friend.
I asked you, is it Glammar Russ, because that's the
way it's betrayed. Hold on, if you can see your screen,
can you show me the dealer, the glam ketamine queen,
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because she makes it all look so good. Okay, I've
seen that picture. Do you have another picture you can
show me? Okay, there that right there, How can you
It's hard to look at her and reconcile that that
woman right there, according to prosecutors, according to the state,
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has heaped misery and suffering on so many people so
she could line her pockets her right there. Perry is
dead thanks to her, according to prosecutors, and all of
his friends. And I don't mean that as a play
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on words. You've got this longtime friend, living assistant giving
him the dope. That's what it is. Dope. Until he dies,
everybody knew he was struggling with addiction. Everybody knew that.
Does this woman care? No, no drug dealer cares. What
does it do to a person, doctor.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Morony, Well, at higher doses than needed, it sedates you,
It drives your heart rate up, It can give you
a rhythmias that make you susceptible to sudden death, and
it prevents.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
You from moving.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Because it's an anesthetic, nothing can change the classification. It's
called a dissociate of anesthetic. Why would anybody take an anesthetic?
You can't think, you can't move, and eventually you can't breathe.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
So the whole problem.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Is people think they can get away with it. These
people are sold the idea that this is the answer.
At one point, it could have been heroin, It could
have been cocaine, could have been alcohol, stitutamine, and they say, okay,
when you need more, give me a call after one shot.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Eventually you need to hold on, doctor Moroney, because that's
exactly what happened right here. I'm trying to drink in
everything you're saying. I'm just a tryal lawyer. You're the professional,
the toxicologist, the pathologist, and you've even written the book
about use of opioids and drugs and how to save
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people's lives to doctor Bethany Marshall, Doctor Bethany Marshall, Finally
somebody brings down the hammer on this drug operation. And
this is not, according to sources, the first person that
has lost their lives to the Please very people, listen,
doctor Bethany.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
The two lead defendants in this case are defendants Salvador
Placentia and defendant Jesseviine Sanya. Defendant Placentia was a medical doctor.
He worked with another medical doctor, defendant Mark Chavez, to
obtain ketmy. He then worked with mister Perry's live in
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assistant defendant Kenneth Iwamasa to distribute that ketamine to mister Perry.
Sonya and the broker defendant Fleming saw this as an
opportunity to profit off of mister Perry. She sold approximately
fifty vials of ketamine for approximately eleven thousand dollars in cash.
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She worked with a broker defendant, Eric Fleming, and also
the live in assistant defendant Iwamasa to distribute this kedemy.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
A tangled web of dopers, you know. Doctor Bethany Marshall
is joining us a high profile psychoanalyst author of deal
Breaker Doctor Bethany. I'm just thinking of all the drug
lords and dopers that I have prosecuted put behind bars
over all the years. You know, this woman we're looking at,
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there's so glamorous and her high end lifestyle. She had
just traveled to Tokyo, Europe, all over the world. Have you, Bethany,
did you grow up on a farm you went with
your parents all around the world as a missionary? Correct?
Speaker 6 (09:33):
Yes, grew up in Central West Africa, Congo.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Okay, then you've seen a tick. I assume you know
bloods Absolutely, yes, that's who she is. Every time I
look at her, I see a tick, and they get
bigger and fatter as they suck the blood of their victim.
And that is what she was doing with Matthew Perry.
And I guarantee you he's not the first.
Speaker 6 (09:58):
You know, she was going out selling one more vile
and one more vile to go out and buy one
more Airmetas bag or Gucci pair of shoes, or you know,
she was just really satisfying her own greed. And what
makes me so sad, Nancy, is that people suffering from
some substance abuse disorders are extraordinarily vulnerable. Matthew Perry was vulnerable.
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He was chasing that next high. His brain was craving
the addiction. He had a long history of substance abuse disorder.
And by the way, so do About fifteen percent of
all Americans over the age of twelve have suffered from
a substance abuse disorder in this past year.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Can you say that again? I thought I didn't hear
you correctly.
Speaker 6 (10:40):
What more than fifteen percent of all Americans over the
age of twelve have suffered from a substance abuse disorder
in this past year. Of those Americans, only six point
seven percent of them ever received.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Listen to this, everybody, Mike McCormick joining me, owner, lead
investigator mcmm mother c Charlie m Mother Investigations, former LAPD
over twenty five years. Listen to this, Mike. It is
reported that the Ketamine Queen supplied twenty five vials of
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ketamine four days to Parry just four days before his death,
and boasted as she sold it to him as it
being a high quality drug, adding it's unmarked, but it's
amazing now. Immediately after his death, is reported she messaged
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her co conspirators, according to the state, stating delete all
our messages, and then she goes off on a whirlwind
tour I think it was Japan, but flying off on
a private jet, laid all your messages, destroy the evidence
she knew. She knew Mike McCormick. And there's no way
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in hub l that there's not a string of other
Hollywood celebs that are her clients.
Speaker 7 (12:14):
That's true. It's going to be probably a lot more
suspects brought into this death of Matthew Perry as time
goes by. I don't think it's limited to just the
amount of people that have been in the news in
the last few days. I think there's going to be more.
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I think the assistant Kenneth definitely didn't do his job.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
He should have.
Speaker 7 (12:45):
He should have brought in the family members and made
them aware of what the extent of the problem is.
And we have been able to actually save Matthew from
this situation, from dying of an overdose, you know.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
But instead of trying to save him, Mike, everyone enabled
him with friends like those I mean listen.
Speaker 8 (13:12):
Perry turned to a street dealer, Eric Fleming, who sourced
his ketymine from a drug trafficker known as the Ketemine
Queen Jasvine Sangha. The ketymine supplied by Sanha would ultimately
be the dose that took Matthew Perry's life. Someone knew
that the ketamine she supplied could be deadly.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Despite this knowledge.
Speaker 8 (13:35):
She continued to sell ketamine and methamphetamine throughout Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Now joining me high profile lawyer, former federal prosecutor, Nima Romani,
President West Coast Trial Lawyers, author of Harvard to hashtag Nima.
It was slow in coming, but finally the Fed's hand
down a major indictment. I'm happy they did it, But
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do you think if they had acted earlier, Perry's life
could have been saved and probably the lives of many
others well.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Probably man See, let's not forget that Sanga was responsible
for another drug related death in twenty nineteen, Cody McKellen,
and it was kedemene that she provided.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
That killed them that same day. And the political.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Reality is that they spend a lot more time investigating
this case because of who the victim was. You have
a celebrity victim obviously got a lot of attention, and
that's why you had federal resources as well as local
resources LAPD put on this case to bring hopefully the
perpetrators to justice.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
They distributed approximately twenty vials of ketamine to mister Perry
in exchange for fifty five thousand dollars in cash. Defendant
Placentia saw this as an opportunity to profit off of
mister Perry. He wrote in a text message in September
twenty twenty three, quote, I wonder how much this moron
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will pay. He also stated in text messages that he
wanted to be mister Perry's sole source of supply. He
wrote in a text message that he wanted to be
mister Perry's quote go to for drugs.
Speaker 9 (15:23):
I wonder how much this moron will pay? Let's find out.
Text messages reveal the motivation of those charged in Matthew
Perry's death.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Joining us right now, Lauren Colin, investigative reporter and star
of Crime Time on YouTube, Lauren Colin, thank you for
being with us. So who while they're literally killing him
like a tick, just sucking his blood, taking his money
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as they know his condition is quote spiraling out of control.
They that they're communications not me, their words not mine.
They actually call him a moron. Matthew Perry, who was
a child tennis prodigy who goes to LA and lands
on his feet, ending up with the role of a
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lifetime on friends. That that moron who said.
Speaker 10 (16:22):
That, Lauren Conlin, Yes, this is doctor Salvator Placentia who
said this, And Nancy, let's not forget that. Sixteen days
before Matthew Perry's death, Salvator Placentia shot up Matthew Perry
with a very large dose of ketamine, which caused Matthew
Perry to freeze up, and doctor Placentia said to Kenneth Ewamasa, hm,
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we better not do that again. Well, we know that
that was not the case, and just very quickly Nancy
going back to jazz beene Sangha as Nima said. She
was found to be responsible for the twenty nine nineteen
death of a thirty three year old young man, Cody
mclory in LA and also Matthew Perry was said to
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have met her in rehab along with Brooke Mueller.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Guys, speaking of Matthew Perry quote freezing up listen.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
Defendant Placentia knew full well the danger of what he
was doing. In fact, on one occasion he injected mister
Perry with kenmine and he saw mister Perry freeze up
and his blood pressure spike. Despite that, he left additional
vials of ketamine for defendant Iwamasa to administer to mister Perry.
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Of course, defendant Ewa Masa had no medical training to
speak of.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Doctor William Maroney joining me, renowned toxicologist and pathologist, author
of American Narcan who has devoted his career to fighting
opioid and substance abuse. Doctor Moroney, I've heard it stated
in several publications and several points of evidence that they
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had observed or knew of Matthew Perry quote freezing up.
I'm not sure what that means, but it didn't stop
them from giving him nearly thirty miles of ketamine just
before his death.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
What it actually comes down to is ketamine is an anesthetic,
So if you give too much, you don't just relax somebody.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
They do freeze up.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
You freeze somebody up at the side of their pool
or in their kitchen. You don't have a crash cart,
you don't have anything else. You just have to wait
it out or possibly call nine to one one. They
were lucky that they didn't kill him earlier, but the
end result is the same because of the disregard for life.
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As they gave him more, he became more dependent. And
then the final day when he died, he got three injections.
This is a drug proved to get once a month
from a psychiatrist, and they were giving it daily, which
is more dangerous than anything.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Back to him freezing up. That is what going into
a seizure.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
What is that muscle stiffness and the early stages of anesthesia,
anesthesia making him fall asleep on purpose, because that's how
we use it when we take people to surgery.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
How exactly did the scheme wart listen?
Speaker 11 (19:32):
Doctor Salvador Placentia obtains ketamine for Perry from doctor Mark Chavez.
Chavez writes a fraudulent prescription for an unwitting patient and
lies to wholesale ketamine distributors to obtain both liquid and
lozenge forms of ketamine for doctor Placentia, who in turns
dispenses them to Perry on at least seven occasions, despite
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noting Perry's addiction is quote spiraling out of control. When
Placentia is ord to turn over Perry's medical records, the
doctor falsifies and alters several reports to show a purported
treatment plan for Perry.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Okay, back to Lauren Conlin joining us from Prime Time
Crime on YouTube. Lauren, So let me understand this. They
state amongst themselves that his addiction is spiraling out of
control their words, not mine, but they continue and they
call it a treatment plan. Why did they name it
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a treatment plan? Sang Hay is just basically a dope dealer,
just like a doper on the street that a couple
of blocks from the elementary school. She's no different. So
what was the so called treatment plan?
Speaker 10 (20:45):
This is absolutely absurd, Nancy. And let's not forget that
Matthew Perry just started working with these doctors a month
prior to his death, So this quote unquote treatment plan,
it was all made up. They literally just did this
for money. And it also was stated in the press
conference that these doctors were selling him vials that they
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paid twelve dollars for for two thousand dollars. And Kenneth
Ewamasa confirmed with the LAPD and the DEA that the
three days before Matthew Perry's death, he was administering between
six and eight doses of kenemine a day. And you know,
like doctor Moroney said, the last day he was alive.
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He had three, but the days leading up to it
it was between six and eight doses.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
And if the.
Speaker 10 (21:33):
Doctors prescribed that, oh boy, I would be shocked.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Doctor Bethany, the price differential. You can get the same
amount of ketamine on the street for twelve bucks, and
he's paying two thousand dollars for one vial, Doctor Bethany,
speaking of blood sucking ticks. Not only do they aid him,
enable him to his own death, but they make fun
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of him, overcharging him, gouging him. But then they call
him names and make fun of how much he will pay.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
In their text, Nancy, they had disregard and disdained for them,
But who are the morons? They killed their cash cow
in one month and now they're going to spend years
behind bars. So I think what really upsets me about
the situation. I'm thinking about a very wealthy patient in
my Beverly Hills practice struggling with addiction, and everybody tried
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to provide drugs for him. I would get him into rehab,
then all of a sudden, the house manager would come
in and just leave drugs around the house. He would
get rid of the house manager, then he would get
a new girlfriend, who then would addict and hook them
again so he would take her shopping for jewelry. I mean,
he was a mark sitting out there in society because
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of his substance abuse. So people who have these horrible
addictions like Matthew Perry, the people around them are bloodsucking
ticks to attract a whole network of people who just
see dollar signs all over the place, and they do
not care about the patient. Did you notice that picture
of doctor Placentia has UCLA Healthcare on his lab jacket,
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UCLA on his lab coat. There it is a UCLA
health system. So under the guise of being a medical expert,
of caring, of the oath of do no harm, he
is actually extracting money from somebody, worsening that person's addiction,
knowing that that person's going to die, and so stupid
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and more on it. He thinks he's not going to
get caught.
Speaker 9 (23:38):
One doctor notes Matthew Perry's addiction as spiraling out of control.
Still Perry is sold twenty mials of ketamine, totaling fifty
five thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Finally, federal indictments go down. I'm thrilled about the indictments,
but I wonder if they had been handed down against
this as I'm calling them blood sucking ticks that lived
off Matthew Perry and others. If it had happened earlier,
could his life and others have been saved? Right now,
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I'm just glad the charges occurred. Now we're talking about
other potential victims.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
Listen, Doctor Salvador Placentia's exorbitant prices pushed Matthew Perry to
seek a new ketamine source. Assistant Kenneth Ewa Massa reaches
out to several street dealers. Eric Fleming agrees to a
deal and turns to his supplier, Josvin Songhaw for ketamine
from her North Hollywood stash house. Fleming pays Songhaw from
the drugs with cash from Ewa Masa. Songha is well
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aware of the dangers of ketamine. One of her previous buyers,
Cody mclory, died of an overdose on the drug four
years earlier.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
We were just talking about a guy named Cody mcclauri,
also dead.
Speaker 12 (25:00):
Jazzvien Songha sells Cody mclowery several vials of ketamine. Later
that same day, mclowry's family finds him dead. A family
member tells Sogha her ketamine caused mclowry's overdose death, and
Songha google's can ketamine be listed as a cause of death? Nevertheless,
Songhak continues peddling ketamine and other drugs from her stash house.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
You know that's the thing, Doctor William Maroney, renowned toxicologist.
Dr Maroney, dopers don't care. The family goes to sing
y'all and says, you did this to Cody, and she's like,
oh okay, Google, Google, Google, can kennymy be listed as
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a cod not? Oh my stars, I'm never doing this again.
It's how this horrible effect. Cody is dead. No, she
just wants to find out is basically she gonna be
implicated and the death of Cody McLaury. They see jets
off to Japan with burken bags on both arms.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
I mean really, Ketamine is listed as cause of death
all across America. Fentanyl is listed as death cause of
death all cause America. Methanphetamine. We're very specific about cause
of death. We mention the chemical if it's a chemical,
and we mentioned the medicine if it was prescribed and
(26:26):
it was ethical. There are five manners of death, and
his death is considered an accident because the CDC says
drug overdoses are accidents. But we'll have to see if
in a court that's a different definition that it was
(26:47):
caused because somebody else did the injections.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
So there's a play between the picate.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Clearly, always ketamine will be listed as a cause of death.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Always name it. Romani, former federal prosecutor turned trial lawyer Nima.
Why is it that all the so called rich, glamorous
people get sweetheart deals? Why is that if there is
a sweetheart deal on this bloodsucking tick song. Hey, I'm
going to do a backflip. You've got Cody mclory that
(27:23):
we know of, and now Matthew Perry. Well, are they
going to kind of deal with this woman?
Speaker 2 (27:29):
I don't think so, Nancy. Like I said, there's two
drug related deaths, and it's not just the ketamine we're
talking about, which is a Schedule three And even though
because death as a fifteen year max it's not methamphetamine,
there are very significant sentence in guidelines. So because of
the myth, which is scheduled too, she's looking at a
potential life sentence if the fence cut her a deal.
(27:52):
It's only because she's going to identify her source. I
don't think that was medical grade ketamine. And obviously we
know in drug cases prosecutors they.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Want to work their way up the chain.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Kennemine is a huge problem in LA right now.
Speaker 9 (28:13):
Perry's live in assistant admitted to repeatedly injecting the actor
with ketamine without medical training, and administered multiple injections. The
very day Perry died.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
One celeb after the next dead from overdose, probably drugs
given to them by friends. Listen to this now.
Speaker 13 (28:38):
Today, How are you doing it? In security?
Speaker 9 (28:41):
From burdle Hilton h right?
Speaker 6 (28:42):
What going on?
Speaker 13 (28:42):
I need a paramedic. Farently I've got a forty six
year old femail. I'm found in the bathroom to follow
God right now, but they're requesting paramedic. Okay, panel fell
about them? I love Rimscannal. I'm not sure she fell.
She was in the bathroom with the water four four
three four. I'm sorry, we had a room four three
fourth fieen, Okay, they're not us or anything else. That's
room four three forty yeah, Okay, we don't know if she
was contract of breathing at all. Apparently she wasn't breathing
(29:04):
and she's y six year old. She was not breathing.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Yeah, Whitney Houston, that's a nine to one one call.
Found in a luxe hotel submerged in water. Why because
of drugs? And there's so many others. Amy Winehouse a
brilliant shooting star dead. Of course, Anna Nicole Smith. All
(29:27):
of her friends fed her drugs, drugs, drugs until the
very end, leaving behind children. Chris Farley, the funny guy.
Everybody loves Farley. People took advantage of him until he
was dead. Heath Ledger, the joker, leaving behind a little girl.
(29:52):
Of course, let's just start at the beginning with this guy.
He had a fishing tackle box full of drugs? Who
gave him that? Janice Jotham, what a star od And
of course no loose is complete without him. Belushi the
(30:14):
ultimate funny guy, little peep, just don't forget him. Kurt
Cobain Nirvana, leaving behind Francis Bean and of course one
of the biggest stars ever, Michael Jackson like just a brilliant,
(30:36):
burning talent dead and of course my favorite Prince. He
could have lived if he had been given a narcan
injection that didn't happen. Everyone stood by, lived off his
money and kept feeding him drugs. We were Phoenix gone
(30:59):
so young, de viperome. Of course, Whitney voice like an angel.
Vern Troyer, you can't help but love this guy, wrestler China.
It just we don't even have enough time to go
through all the celebrities that have lost their lives, not
(31:23):
just because of drugs, but because of a tight little
circle of so called friends. And back to Mike McCormick
joining US owner lead investigator mcm Investigations, former LAPD over
twenty five years at mcminvestigations dot com. Mike, that's the
way it is in Hollywood, and the beat goes on
(31:43):
the day after Matthew Pierry's dead. Everybody's getting their supplies
from their friends. It it never ends.
Speaker 7 (31:51):
It never ends because of the suppliers and the people
involved walk the drugs. I don't know how I ended.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
You know too, Doctor Bethany Marshall joining US renow psychoanalyst.
You would think that after Cody McLaury was killed that
the so called ketamine queen, I go, you know what,
It's not worth it, how many more birking bags do
I need? How many more private planes do I need
to take to Japan or Europe? It's not worth my
(32:27):
clients dying. It didn't stop her.
Speaker 6 (32:30):
Why, Nancy, she's homicidal. I mean, we really have to
think about that. That one picture where she has the
red lipstick, black T shirt, straight hair. Do you know
what it says, rip on her T shirt rest in peace
with a picture of Kobe Bryant underneath. I mean, perhaps
it's just I don't know. I design her T shirt
right there, rip cross guy with black classes. It tells
(32:54):
me that on some levels, she really knew what she
was doing. She's wearing her crime. She's wearing her intention.
That watch that beautiful top, that Airmes bag. You know
that is the blood of her clients. The blood of
her clients, Nancy. I think it's easy to glamorize along
with her, that she has these beautiful outfits in the
(33:16):
shoes and this, that and the other. She has sucked
this money, as so many people do with addicts out
of her client to their death. This even happens in
the homeless population, Nancy, where family members will addict homeless
people so that they can take their SSI checks. It
happens from high to low, low to high, all over
(33:37):
the place.
Speaker 14 (33:38):
According to Matthew Perry, he had been cleaned for nineteen months,
but The Daily Mail reports the actor died from an
overdose of the party drug ketamine. According to the autopsy report,
a detective who attended the scene of Perry's death said, quote,
during my investigation, no alcohol, elicit drugs or drug paraphernalia
were found unquote. The Daily Mail also claims the fifty
(34:00):
four year old was getting injections of the male hormone testosterone,
and an unnamed female associate claimed the injections were causing
him to be angry and mean for the last couple
of weeks.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Doctor William Maroney, if you could put this in regular
people talk in a nutshell, I've read your autopsy reports
like one sentence can be two paragraphs. Boil it down,
Boil it down. So Matthew Perry took the ketamine and
then he goes into a euphoric sedation state and his
(34:34):
body can't fight back. When he goes under the water.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
There's high dose and lotos. You start going into sedation
and euphoria, but it doesn't stop. As the dose builds
up in you. That's where you go into frozen muscles.
You can't breathe, your body locks up, because that's what
it's really meant to do as an anesthetic.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
It is a pros so a euphoric sedation. And you
I wonder if he could feel himself going underwater and
there was nothing he could do about it, or look
there he is in the hot tub. To Nima Romani,
high profile lawyer, listen to this Songha was a quote
(35:21):
large volume drug dealer and in the complaints we find
out that she would sell ketamine lollipops as an ad
on because his orders were so large. Now, after seizing
her phone, police apparently have found footage of her on
(35:42):
her phone. That's pretty arrogant cooking up ketamine. She has
videoed herself cooking up ketamine and it just you know,
there's pictures she posts online, for instance, of her in
a private jet having caviat and champagne. Just before her arrest,
(36:03):
she was sharing photos on Insta of her with her
knee purple hairdoo. Just she could not have cared less well.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
The answered she's on a strip of hole there with
a money gun. But you know, You're right, Kennymine is
a big time party drug here in Hollywood, and it's
not given with an ivy at a party.
Speaker 6 (36:22):
So what is.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Typically done is users are addicts to cook it and
they transform it into a white powdery substance like cocaine.
So when you said folks are sniffing each other at
these parties, they're sniffing cocaine and kenemine and not each other.
Sometimes it's even put in a nasal spray, but that's
primarily how it's used and abused in the party scene here.
(36:44):
So the fact that Sanga is one of the world's
dumbest criminals who's videotaping herself processing these types of drugs
isn't surprising because I've seen criminal defendants do all sorts
of stupid things.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
You know, it's kind of hard to take in her
and her glamour lifestyle, and you juxtapose that against Matthew
Perry feeling himself going underwater and he's so immobile he
can't fight back. But doctor Bethany Marshall on Insta, this
woman posts herself enjoying caviar in a private jet lounge
(37:22):
just after Perry dies. She's sipping leechy martinis at the
Mandarin Oriental in Tokyo, each suite about two thousand dollars
a night. A few weeks after that, she's sunning herself
by a pool and playa Del Carmen in Mexico, sharing selfies,
(37:43):
drinking more cocktails. It goes on and on and on.
When she finally touches back down in the US, she
was lapping up the La lifestyle, having ivy drips and
lake night parties. End quote. Sound healing sessions helped me out,
(38:08):
Doctor Bethany.
Speaker 6 (38:09):
Sounds very la to me. You know, she was corrupted
by greed and lack of concern for others. But Nancy,
we see this with Big Pharma, we see this with
the Sackler Family show. Let's throw them on the trash
heap of people who have become so greedy and their
lives got so big, and they earned billions of dollars,
and because of that, they did not care about the
(38:30):
millions of Americans who died. These people who used drugs
to have control over others. It's like they're stealing. It's
like they're creeping through a window in another person's house,
taking the diamonds out of the safe going and just
gloating over the diamonds that they've gotten. They don't care
about the house, they don't care about the people in it,
(38:51):
they don't care about the neurobiology of addiction, and they
don't really care about the wave of devastation that goes
outward and this person's life. Matthew Perry had many people
who love him. The public love him, we love him,
we're talking about him today. But their children, nieces, nephews, parents, cousins,
church members of people he was doing business with. It's
(39:14):
wid spread devastation that you know. Sonier really didn't really
care about that. She just wanted to lead you, Martini,
and that was it. Talk about again moronic. It really
is moronic behavior.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
We haven't even gotten to the doctor, the drug lord
posing as a doctor, and as you see La Health
Jacket and all the others involved in Matthew Perry's debut.
This is where it leaves me. Those people that are
charged by the fans. Finally, they're no different than dopers
selling a twenty five dollars rock out on the street,
(39:47):
no different. They just clean up better. Thank you to
all of our guests being with us tonight. Highlighting the
devastation of addiction. Nancy Grace signing off goodbye friend,
Host
Nancy Grace
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