Newsletters
Jasveen Sangha, a drug dealer known as the “Ketamine Queen,” is set to be sentenced on Wednesday in a California federal court for her role in the death of Matthew Perry.
Sangha, 42, has pleaded guilty to multiple federal charges, including one count of distributing ketamine resulting in death or serious bodily injury. She faces a potential sentence of several decades in prison and has been in federal custody since August 2024.
Prosecutors say Sangha was a central figure in a network that supplied ketamine to Perry in the weeks leading up to his death in October 2023. The actor, widely recognized for his role in Friends, was found unresponsive in a hot tub at his Los Angeles home. An autopsy later determined that he had high levels of ketamine in his system.
According to court filings, Sangha distributed dozens of vials of the drug through intermediaries, eventually reaching Perry via his live-in assistant, who administered multiple injections on the day of his death. Authorities allege that Sangha attempted to obstruct the investigation after learning of Perry’s death by instructing an associate to delete incriminating messages.
Sangha is one of five individuals convicted in connection with the case, which exposed a broader network of suppliers and facilitators, including licensed medical professionals. Among them, Salvador Plasencia was sentenced to 30 months in prison after admitting to distributing ketamine, while Mark Chavez received home confinement and community service.
Prosecutors stated that Perry, who had long struggled with substance addiction, was charged inflated prices for the drug, paying thousands of dollars per vial.
In his 2022 memoir, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, Perry detailed his decades-long battle with addiction and repeated attempts at recovery. He had been undergoing ketamine therapy for depression under medical supervision prior to his relapse.
Set as preferred source
Set as preferred source
1 min read
