TMZ sources say the physician knew about the 27-year-old model's history of addiction, raising fresh questions around his death at a Santa Monica rehab facility.
Presley Gerber's doctor allegedly had him on ketamine, and people close to the 27-year-old model want to know if that had anything to do with his death, according to a TMZ report cited by Perez Hilton.
Gerber died on Sunday while staying at a luxury rehab facility in Santa Monica. Dispatch calls pointed to cardiac arrest and a suspected overdose, but the official cause of death remains deferred pending further tests, per the report.
What's making this harder to sit with is the drug involved. Ketamine is the same substance that killed Matthew Perry in 2023, and sources close to Gerber told TMZ they're demanding accountability if it turns out his doctor kept prescribing it despite knowing about his struggles with addiction. Nobody has been named or charged. This is, right now, an allegation reported by one outlet's sources, not a finding.
Gerber had spent real time trying to get better in public. He ran a Mental Health Mondays series on social media, using his own recovery as material for a wider conversation about addiction and mental illness. That effort is part of why his death has landed so hard among people who followed him.
His family, Cindy Crawford, Rande Gerber and sister Kaia Gerber, are named in reporting as being in shock. None of them has issued a public statement addressing the ketamine claim specifically. Gerber's ex, Charlotte D'Alessio, has reacted to the death too, telling outlets she's "very angry," though it's not clear from available reporting whether her anger is directed at the doctor, the facility, or something else entirely.
There's a lot still unconfirmed here. TMZ's sourcing is described only as people close to Gerber, and Perez Hilton's report doesn't name the doctor or the rehab facility beyond its location. The deferred cause of death means toxicology results are still pending, and until those come back, any link between the prescription and how Gerber died stays speculative.
What happens next depends on that toxicology report and whether Santa Monica authorities open any formal inquiry into the doctor's prescribing history. Gerber's family hasn't said whether they intend to pursue that themselves. For now, the timeline sits where TMZ left it: a young man in recovery, a doctor who allegedly kept the ketamine coming anyway, and a cause of death still not officially settled.
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