‘Ketamine Queen’ accused of selling fatal dose to Matthew Perry to plead guilty
Jasveen Sangha, the final defendant charged in the 2023 overdose death of the Friends star, faces 45 years in prison
A woman known as the “Ketamine Queen”, charged with selling Matthew Perry the drug that killed him, agreed to plead guilty on Monday.
Jasveen Sangha becomes the fifth and final defendant charged in the overdose death of the Friends star to strike a plea agreement with federal prosecutors, avoiding a trial that had been planned for September.
Prosecutors had cast Sangha, a 42-year-old dual US-British citizen, as a prolific drug dealer who was known to her customers as the “Ketamine Queen”, using the term often in press releases and court documents and even including it in the official name of the case.
She agreed to plead guilty 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.
She admitted in the agreement to selling four vials of ketamine to another man, Cody McLaury, hours before he died from an overdose in 2019. McLaury had no relationship to Perry.