'Ketamine Queen' pleads guilty to selling fatal dose to Matthew Perry
Jasveen Sangha, aka: the “Ketamine Queen”, has pleaded guilty to selling Friends star Matthew Perry the drug that killed him, becoming the fifth and final defendant charged in Perry’s overdose death to admit guilt.
Sangha, 42, leaded guilty to five federal charges, including providing the ketamine that led to Perry’s death.
Perry’s mother, Suzanne Perry, and his stepfather, Dateline reporter Keith Morrison, sat in the audience. It was their first time attending court proceedings since the announcement of the indictments one year ago.
Sangha, a dual citizen of the US and the UK, stood in court Wednesday next to her attorney Mark Geragos as she repeated “guilty” five times when US District Court Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett asked for her pleas.
She faces up to 65 years in prison after admitting one count of maintaining a drug-involved premises, three counts of distribution of ketamine, and one count of distribution of ketamine resulting in death.
Prosecutors agreed to drop three other counts related to the distribution of ketamine, and one count of distribution of methamphetamine that was unrelated to the Perry case.
The final plea deal came a year after federal prosecutors announced the indictments in Perry’s death after a sweeping investigation.
Sangha is scheduled to be sentenced on 10 December. The other four defendants are also still awaiting sentencing.
The actor's live-in assistant Kenneth Iwamasa, an acquaintance Erik Fleming, and a physician, Mark Chavez, all agreed to plead guilty when the charges were announced in August 2024.
Another doctor, Salvador Plasencia, initially pleaded not guilty and had been due to face trial alongside Sangha, but changed his plea in July.
Perry died aged 54 on 28 October 2023. He had struggled with addiction for years, but released a memoir a year before his death during a period of being clean.
He had been using ketamine through his regular doctor as a legal treatment for depression. In the weeks before his death, he had started to seek the drug illegally.
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