A drug dealer dubbed the “Ketamine Queen” was sentenced yesterday to 15 years in prison in connection with the fatal overdose of Friends star Matthew Perry, including her role in supplying the dose of the powerful anesthetic that killed the actor.
Jasveen Sangha, who admitted to running a “stash house” for illegal narcotics out of her home in the North Hollywood district of Los Angeles, pleaded guilty in September to five felony drug counts stemming from Perry’s 2023 death at age 54.
Sangha, 42, a dual US-British citizen, had faced a possible sentence of up to 65 years in prison.
Sangha’s sentence was harsher than those given to two physicians previously sentenced in the case. Two more co-defendants convicted earlier – another drug dealer and Perry’s onetime personal assistant – have yet to be sentenced.
Perry was found by his live-in personal assistant floating face down and lifeless in a hot tub at his Los Angeles home on October 28, 2023.
An autopsy report concluded Perry died from the “acute effects of ketamine,” which combined with other factors in causing the actor to lose consciousness and drown.
Perry had publicly acknowledged decades of substance abuse that overlapped with the height of his fame playing the sardonic but charming Chandler Bing on the 1990s hit NBC television comedy Friends.
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