The woman reportedly known as the “Ketamine Queen” was sentenced to 15 years in prison for providing the drug that killed Matthew Perry.<\/p>\n
Jasveen Sangha admitted in a plea agreement to working with another dealer to provide the “Friends” actor with dozens of vials of ketamine, including the dose that led to his fatal overdose in October 2023 at the age of 54.<\/p>\n
Sangha, 42, pleaded guilty<\/a> last year to one count of maintaining a drug-involved premises, three counts of distribution of ketamine, and one count of distribution of ketamine resulting in death or serious bodily injury.\u00a0She faced a maximum sentence of 65 years in prison.<\/p>\n Jasveen Sangha attends the Davis Factor Cocktail Reception & Book Signing in Beverly Hills, Dec. 8, 2022.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Jojo Korsh\/BFA.com\/Shutterstock<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Sangha, who appeared with her ankles shackled, told the court she takes “full responsibility for my actions” during her sentencing hearing in Los Angeles federal court on Wednesday.<\/p>\n “I am deeply ashamed of how my actions affected all the families here today,” she said, adding that she has “done everything I can to be a better person.”\u00a0<\/p>\n She cried as Perry’s family delivered emotional victim impact statements ahead of her sentencing.<\/p>\n “The pain you caused is irreversible,” Perry’s stepmother, Debbie Perry, said. “You clearly had a talent for making money, but you chose to hurt people. How sad.”<\/p>\n She asked the judge to “give this heartless woman the maximum prison sentence so she won’t be able to hurt other families like ours.”<\/p>\n Keith Morrison, Perry’s stepfather, also addressed Sangha.<\/p>\n “I don’t hate you. You’re a drug dealer. You supplied an addict,” he said, going on to recall Perry as “one of a kind.”<\/p>\n “Matthew was funny and brilliant and sad and miserable and happy and generous and kind and infuriating in every way,” he said.<\/p>\n Suzanne Morrison, mother of Matthew Perry, walks into court with her husband Keith Morrison before the sentencing of Jasveen Sangha, who pleaded guilty to selling Perry a lethal dose of the drug ketamine, April 8, 2026 in Los Angeles.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Frederic J. Brown\/AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Prosecutors said in court filings<\/a> ahead of Sangha’s sentencing that she should serve 15 years in prison for her “cold callousness and disregard for life,” and that she’s shown little remorse, pointing to recorded jail communications in which, they say, Sangha talked about “obtaining ‘trademarks’ and securing book rights on the events of the case.”<\/p>\n In a sentencing memorandum filed last month, prosecutors said Sangha ran a “high-volume drug trafficking business out of her North Hollywood residence,” where she stored, packaged and distributed drugs, including ketamine and methamphetamine, since at least 2019. Prosecutors said Sangha continued to sell “dangerous drugs” even after learning she had sold ketamine that contributed to the overdose deaths of two men: Perry and, years earlier, Los Angeles resident Cody McLaury. McLaury died hours after Sangha sold him four vials of ketamine in 2019, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n “She didn’t care and kept selling,” prosecutors wrote. “Defendant’s actions show a cold callousness and disregard for life. She chose profits over people, and her actions have caused immense pain to the victims’ families and loved ones.”<\/p>\n Sangha “had the opportunity to stop after realizing the impact of her dealing \u2013 but simply chose not to,” which warrants a “significant” sentence, prosecutors also said.<\/p>\n The defense, meanwhile, said Sangha, who has been behind bars since her arrest in August 2024, should receive a sentence of time served due to her “demonstrated rehabilitation.”\u00a0<\/p>\n “She has maintained sustained and exemplary sobriety, and actively engaged in recovery-oriented and rehabilitative programming while in custody, and has tremendously strong family and community support to facilitate successful reentry and reduce the risk of recidivism,” her attorneys, Mark Geragos and Alexandra Kazarian, wrote in a sentencing memorandum filed last month.\u00a0<\/p>\n In response to the defense sentencing memorandum, prosecutors continued to argue that Sangha has shown a lack of remorse and claimed she has attempted to minimize the harm she’s caused.<\/p>\n “For example, defendant harmed two overdose victims, but her sentencing briefing does not even mention Cody McLaury and only references Matthew Perry in passing, in the context of defendant attempting to downplay her role in his death and to heap the blame on others,” prosecutors wrote in their response, filed last week.<\/p>\n They also argued that Sangha “expressed a similar lack of remorse in recorded jail communications” \u2013 including one on Dec. 25, 2024, during which prosecutors said an individual stated, “We’re gonna sell those book rights,” and Sangha allegedly responded, “Oh I know, the plan is in, the f—— trademark is going down,” according to the filing.<\/p>\n “Even if said in jest, this conversation suggests defendant does not appreciate the severity of her offenses, and instead sees her crimes as a potential future revenue stream,” prosecutors wrote. “It also shows that time in custody has, thus far, failed in getting defendant to adequately reflect upon the grave harms she has caused.”\u00a0<\/p>\n Matthew Perry attends the GQ Men of the Year Party 2022, Nov. 17, 2022, in West Hollywood.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Phillip Faraone\/Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Geragos has previously said that Sangha “feels horrible.”<\/p>\n “She’s felt horrible from day one,” Geragos told reporters outside the courthouse last year following Sangha’s guilty plea. “This has been a horrendous experience.”<\/p>\n In addition to Sangha, four other people were charged and pleaded guilty in connection with Perry’s death: the other dealer, Erik Fleming; Kenneth Iwamasa, Perry’s live-in personal assistant; and two doctors, Mark Chavez and Salvador Plasencia.<\/p>\n Prosecutors said Sangha worked with Fleming to distribute ketamine to Perry, and that in October 2023, they sold the actor 51 vials of ketamine that were provided to Iwamasa.<\/p>\n “Leading up to Perry’s death, Iwamasa repeatedly injected Perry with the ketamine that Sangha supplied to Fleming,” the DOJ said in a press release last year. “Specifically, on October 28, 2023, Iwamasa injected Perry with at least three shots of Sangha’s ketamine, which caused Perry’s death.”<\/p>\n Iwamasa pleaded guilty in August 2024 to one count of conspiracy to distribute ketamine causing death and is scheduled to be sentenced on April 22.<\/p>\n Fleming pleaded guilty in August 2024 to one count of conspiracy to distribute ketamine and one count of distribution of ketamine resulting in death and is set to be sentenced on April 29.<\/p>\n Chavez and Plasencia have also been convicted for their roles in what prosecutors called a conspiracy to illegally distribute ketamine to Perry.<\/p>\n Chavez, who once ran a ketamine clinic, pleaded guilty in October 2024 to one count of conspiracy to distribute ketamine and was sentenced<\/a> to eight months home confinement in December 2025.<\/p>\n Plasencia, who briefly treated Perry prior to the actor’s death, pleaded guilty in July 2025 to four counts of distribution of ketamine and was sentenced<\/a> to 30 months in prison in December 2025.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i.abcnewsfe.com\/a\/ab3e0ba3-1591-4b97-b8b8-affb681150e5\/Sangha-sh-er-260326_1774540790150_hpMain_2_4x3.jpg?w=375)
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