Jasveen Sangha, better known as the “Ketamine Queen,” agreed to plead guilty on Monday to selling the fatal dose of the anesthetic to Matthew Perry in 2023.
Sangha, 42, was set to go on trial in about a month.
She is the fifth and final defendant to strike a plea agreement in the overdose death case of the “Friends” star. She could get up to 65 years in prison and has been in federal custody since March 2024 when her North Hollywood home was raided by Drug Enforcement Administration agents who found large quantities of methamphetamines and ketamine.
She pleaded guilty to being a drug dealer, distributing ketamine and providing the fatal dose via the previously-charged Erik Fleming that resulted in “death or serious bodily injury” to Perry. Fleming confessed to obtaining the deadly ketamine from Sangha and delivering a total of 50 vials to Kenneth Iwamasa, Perry’s live-in personal assistant.
In a brief statement, Sangha’s lawyer Mark Geragos said: “She’s taking responsibility for her actions.”
Perry died Oct. 28, 2023, in his Los Angeles backyard hot tub. The 54-year-old actor, who was open about his drug and alcohol addiction, had been using ketamine to treat depression and started getting additional doses from Dr. Salvador Plasencia, who pleaded guilty last month. Perry started getting even more from Sangha, whom he met through Fleming, about two weeks before his death, including 25 vials for $6,000 in cash four days before he died.
According to her indictment, she instructed Fleming to delete their text exchanges after Perry died.
According to a release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California, Sangha admitted to selling four vials of ketamine to another man, Cory McLaury, in August 2019. McLaury died hours later from a drug overdose
None of the defendants have been sentenced yet.
With News Wire Services
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