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'Ketamine Queen' sentenced to 15 years in Matthew Perry overdose death
Prosecutors said Sangha sold ketamine that killed Matthew Perry and linked her to another overdose death.
- On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett sentenced Jasveen Sangha to 15 years in federal prison for supplying the ketamine that caused actor Matthew Perry's death in 2023.
- Prosecutors labeled Sangha the "Ketamine Queen," alleging she operated a "drug-selling emporium" from her North Hollywood home, distributing methamphetamine, cocaine, and Xanax since at least 2019.
- Sangha sold Perry 25 vials of ketamine for $6,000 in cash four days before his death; she also admitted selling drugs to Cody McLaury, 33, who died from overdose in 2019.
- Perry's stepmother Debbie Perry called Sangha "heartless" in a victim impact statement submitted Tuesday, while prosecutors wrote that upon learning her drugs caused Perry's death, "She didn't care and kept selling."
- Four other defendants, including physicians Salvador Plasencia and Mark Chavez, have pleaded guilty in the case, with remaining sentencing hearings for Perry's assistant Kenneth Iwamasa scheduled later this month.
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'Ketamine Queen' Sentenced in Matthew Perry's Death
A federal judge on Wednesday handed down a sentence of 15 years in prison to a woman who pleaded guilty to selling Friends star Matthew Perry the ketamine that killed him in 2023. "You're going to have to show some epic resilience," Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett said to Jasveen Sangha,...
BREAKING: 'Ketamine Queen' Jasveen Sangha sentenced to 15 years in prison for Matthew Perry overdose death
Sangha pleaded guilty last year to charges that included one count of distribution of ketamine resulting in death or serious bodily injury. Sangha, known as the "Ketamine Queen," pleaded guilty last year to charges including one count of maintaining a drug-involved premises, three counts of…
The woman known as the 'Ketamina Queen', guilty of trafficking the anesthetic that caused Matthew Perry's death in 2023, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison this Wednesday. Jasveen Sangha had reached a guilty plea agreement last year with the Prosecutor's Office on five charges related to drug trafficking and distribution.More information shortly...
In the trial for the death of the "Friends" actor Matthew Perry, the defendant was sentenced to 15 years in prison. Perry was found dead with drugs in his blood.
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