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Jasveen Sangha, a North Hollywood woman known as the \u201cKetamine Queen,\u201d was sentenced to 15 years in prison for her role in selling actor Matthew Perry the ketamine that killed him in 2023. <\/p>\n
What we know: Sangha pleaded guilty<\/a> last September to five counts, including distribution of ketamine resulting in death or serious bodily injury. Sangha\u2019s lawyers did not respond to LAist\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n Background: Perry died in October 2023 in his Los Angeles home. The L.A. County medical examiner determined the cause was \u201cacute effects of ketamine.\u201d According to the plea agreement, Sangha worked with alleged drug dealer Erik Fleming to distribute ketamine to Perry. <\/p>\n Keep up with LAist.<\/p>\n If you’re enjoying this article, you’ll love our daily newsletter, The LA Report. Each weekday, catch up on the 5 most pressing stories to start your morning in 3 minutes or less. <\/p>\n On October 28, 2023, Perry’s personal assistant injected the actor with at least three shots of ketamine provided by Sangha. Those shots caused Perry’s death.<\/p>\n What prosecutors say: In a sentencing memorandum<\/a>, prosecutors said Sangha “operated a high-volume drug trafficking business” out of her North Hollywood home. <\/p>\n \u201cTo cultivate her business, [Sangha] marketed herself as an exclusive dealer who catered to high-profile Hollywood clientele\u2026While [Sangha] worked to expand and profit from her drug trafficking, she knew \u2013 and disregarded \u2013 the grave harm her conduct was causing,” the memo stated. <\/p>\n Who else has been sentenced? Sangha is the third defendant sentenced in Perry\u2019s overdose death. For their roles in Perry\u2019s death, San Diego physician Mark Chavez<\/a> was sentenced to eight months of house arrest, along with community service, and Santa Monica-based doctor Salvador Plasencia<\/a> was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison.<\/p>\n What\u2019s next? Fleming and Perry’s personal assistant, Kenneth Iwamasa, are scheduled for sentencing later this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Topline: Jasveen Sangha, a North Hollywood woman known as the \u201cKetamine Queen,\u201d was sentenced to 15 years in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[14449,114221,113943,48,52,51,47,50,49,46037],"class_list":{"0":"post-258842","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-drug-overdose","9":"tag-friends-actor","10":"tag-ketamine-queen","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-la-headlines","13":"tag-la-news","14":"tag-los-angeles","15":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","16":"tag-los-angeles-news","17":"tag-matthew-perry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}