'ketamine Queen' Faces Prison For Selling Drug That Killed Matthew Perry

Federal prosecutors are seeking a 15-year situation condemnation Wednesday for a female known arsenic nan “Ketamine Queen” who provided nan narcotics that killed character Matthew Perry.

Jasveen Sangha, who prosecutors said operated a high-volume supplier trafficking business retired of her North Hollywood home, pleaded blameworthy successful September to 1 count of maintaining a drug-involved premises, 3 counts of distribution of ketamine and 1 count of distribution of ketamine resulting successful decease aliases superior bodily injury.

Sangha was 1 of 5 group charged pinch conspiracy to administer ketamine to Perry, who died from acute effects of nan drug.

Authorities opportunity Sangha sold astir 50 vials of ketamine to Perry for $11,000 — including nan batch that led to his October 2023 decease astatine 54. In her plea agreement, Sangha admitted to knowingly distributing ketamine to Perry, whose struggles pinch supplier addiction and galore rehab visits were good documented.

Sangha besides admitted to trading 4 vials of ketamine to Cody McLaury successful August 2019. McLaury, 33, died hours later successful his Los Angeles location from a supplier overdose that authorities said included ketamine arsenic a factor.

In a sentencing memorandum up of nan proceeding Wednesday, Sangha’s defense attorneys, Mark J. Geragos and Alexandra Kazarian, noted that their customer had nary anterior criminal history and had been incarcerated since August 2024. They asked nan judge to condemnation Sangha to clip served.

Prosecutors successful their sentencing memo described Sangha arsenic a “privileged individual” pinch a financially unchangeable life.

The prosecutors wrote that Sangha “elected not to make usage of her privileged inheritance for nan better. In fact, dissimilar galore defendants who postulation narcotics against a humble backdrop marred by puerility and family difficulties, suspect chose to woody narcotics not because of financial deprivation, but for greed, glamor, and access.”

They accused Sangha of trying to “rewrite history” to overgarment herself arsenic nan unfortunate and said she had not demonstrated remorse.

“She many times sold vulnerable narcotics successful precocious volume; she ran a stash location and directed others to thief waste her drugs; she obstructed justness to conceal her actions; and she was afloat alert that her supplier dealing contributed to astatine slightest 2 deaths --- yet kept trading nan narcotics to others,” nan prosecutors wrote.

Prosecutors besides cited a recorded jailhouse telephone of Sangha discussing obtaining “trademarks” and securing book authorities based connected nan events of nan case. Even if successful jest, prosecutors said, nan speech suggested Sangha “does not admit nan severity of her offenses, and alternatively sees her crimes arsenic a imaginable early gross stream.”

In a missive to nan judge, Debbie Perry, Perry’s stepmother, urged her to condemnation Sangha to “the maximum situation condemnation truthful she won’t beryllium capable to wounded different families for illustration ours.”