‘Ketamine Queen’ sentenced to 15 years in connection with Matthew Perry’s overdose death

The girl reportedly generally known as the “Ketamine Queen” was sentenced to fifteen years in jail for offering the drug that killed Matthew Perry.

Jasveen Sangha admitted in a plea settlement to working with one other vendor to supply the “Buddies” actor with dozens of vials of ketamine, together with the dose that led to his deadly overdose in October 2023 on the age of 54.

Sangha, 42, pleaded responsible final yr to at least one depend of sustaining a drug-involved premises, three counts of distribution of ketamine, and one depend of distribution of ketamine leading to demise or critical bodily harm. She confronted a most sentence of 65 years in jail.

Sangha, who appeared together with her ankles shackled, informed the courtroom she takes “full accountability for my actions” throughout her sentencing listening to in Los Angeles federal courtroom on Wednesday.

“I’m deeply ashamed of how my actions affected all of the households right here as we speak,” she stated, including that she has “carried out the whole lot I can to be a greater individual.” 

She cried as Perry’s household delivered emotional sufferer influence statements forward of her sentencing.

“The ache you triggered is irreversible,” Perry’s stepmother, Debbie Perry, stated. “You clearly had a expertise for creating wealth, however you selected to harm individuals. How unhappy.”

She requested the decide to “give this heartless girl the utmost jail sentence so she will not be capable to damage different households like ours.”

Keith Morrison, Perry’s stepfather, additionally addressed Sangha.

“I do not hate you. You are a drug vendor. You provided an addict,” he stated, happening to recall Perry as “one among a sort.”

“Matthew was humorous and good and unhappy and depressing and blissful and beneficiant and sort and infuriating in each approach,” he stated.

Prosecutors stated in courtroom filings forward of Sangha’s sentencing that she ought to serve 15 years in jail for her “chilly callousness and disrespect for all times,” and that she’s proven little regret, pointing to recorded jail communications through which, they are saying, Sangha talked about “acquiring ’emblems’ and securing e book rights on the occasions of the case.”

In a sentencing memorandum filed final month, prosecutors stated Sangha ran a “high-volume drug trafficking enterprise out of her North Hollywood residence,” the place she saved, packaged and distributed medication, together with ketamine and methamphetamine, since at the very least 2019. Prosecutors stated Sangha continued to promote “harmful medication” even after studying she had offered ketamine that contributed to the overdose deaths of two males: Perry and, years earlier, Los Angeles resident Cody McLaury. McLaury died hours after Sangha offered him 4 vials of ketamine in 2019, prosecutors stated.

“She did not care and saved promoting,” prosecutors wrote. “Defendant’s actions present a chilly callousness and disrespect for all times. She selected earnings over individuals, and her actions have triggered immense ache to the victims’ households and family members.”

Sangha “had the chance to cease after realizing the influence of her dealing – however merely selected to not,” which warrants a “vital” sentence, prosecutors additionally stated.

The protection, in the meantime, stated Sangha, who has been behind bars since her arrest in August 2024, ought to obtain a sentence of time served because of her “demonstrated rehabilitation.” 

“She has maintained sustained and exemplary sobriety, and actively engaged in recovery-oriented and rehabilitative programming whereas in custody, and has tremendously robust household and neighborhood assist to facilitate profitable reentry and scale back the chance of recidivism,” her attorneys, Mark Geragos and Alexandra Kazarian, wrote in a sentencing memorandum filed final month. 

In response to the protection sentencing memorandum, prosecutors continued to argue that Sangha has proven an absence of regret and claimed she has tried to reduce the hurt she’s triggered.

“For instance, defendant harmed two overdose victims, however her sentencing briefing doesn’t even point out Cody McLaury and solely references Matthew Perry in passing, within the context of defendant making an attempt to downplay her function in his demise and to heap the blame on others,” prosecutors wrote of their response, filed final week.

Additionally they argued that Sangha “expressed an identical lack of regret in recorded jail communications” – together with one on Dec. 25, 2024, throughout which prosecutors stated a person acknowledged, “We’re gonna promote these e book rights,” and Sangha allegedly responded, “Oh I do know, the plan is in, the f—— trademark goes down,” in accordance with the submitting.

“Even when stated in jest, this dialog suggests defendant doesn’t recognize the severity of her offenses, and as a substitute sees her crimes as a possible future income stream,” prosecutors wrote. “It additionally reveals that point in custody has, up to now, failed in getting defendant to adequately replicate upon the grave harms she has triggered.” 

Geragos has beforehand stated that Sangha “feels horrible.”

“She’s felt horrible from day one,” Geragos informed reporters outdoors the courthouse final yr following Sangha’s responsible plea. “This has been a horrendous expertise.”

Along with Sangha, 4 different individuals have been charged and pleaded responsible in reference to Perry’s demise: the opposite vendor, Erik Fleming; Kenneth Iwamasa, Perry’s live-in private assistant; and two docs, Mark Chavez and Salvador Plasencia.

Prosecutors stated Sangha labored with Fleming to distribute ketamine to Perry, and that in October 2023, they offered the actor 51 vials of ketamine that have been supplied to Iwamasa.

“Main as much as Perry’s demise, Iwamasa repeatedly injected Perry with the ketamine that Sangha provided to Fleming,” the DOJ stated in a press launch final yr. “Particularly, on October 28, 2023, Iwamasa injected Perry with at the very least three photographs of Sangha’s ketamine, which triggered Perry’s demise.”

Iwamasa pleaded responsible in August 2024 to at least one depend of conspiracy to distribute ketamine inflicting demise and is scheduled to be sentenced on April 22.

Fleming pleaded responsible in August 2024 to at least one depend of conspiracy to distribute ketamine and one depend of distribution of ketamine leading to demise and is about to be sentenced on April 29.

Chavez and Plasencia have additionally been convicted for his or her roles in what prosecutors known as a conspiracy to illegally distribute ketamine to Perry.

Chavez, who as soon as ran a ketamine clinic, pleaded responsible in October 2024 to at least one depend of conspiracy to distribute ketamine and was sentenced to eight months house confinement in December 2025.

Plasencia, who briefly handled Perry previous to the actor’s demise, pleaded responsible in July 2025 to 4 counts of distribution of ketamine and was sentenced to 30 months in jail in December 2025.

ABC Information’ Amanda Morris contributed to this report.