{"id":189971,"date":"2026-04-08T20:11:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T20:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/189971\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T20:11:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T20:11:25","slug":"ketamine-queen-sentenced-to-15-years-in-matthew-perry-death-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/189971\/","title":{"rendered":"Ketamine Queen Sentenced to 15 Years in Matthew Perry Death Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJasveen Sangha, the drug dealer known as the \u201cKetamine Queen<\/a>,\u201d was sentenced to 15 years in prison Wednesday for illegally selling the ketamine that killed \u201cFriends\u201d star Matthew Perry<\/a> in 2023.<\/p>\n

\n\tSangha, 42, pleaded guilty last year to five federal charges in connection to Perry\u2019s death, including 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.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cFor years\u2026Sangha operated a high-volume drug trafficking business out of her North Hollywood residence,\u201d prosecutors argued in a sentencing memorandum. \u201cTo cultivate her business, [Sangha] marketed herself as an exclusive dealer who catered to high-profile Hollywood clientele. While [Sangha] worked to expand and profit from her drug trafficking, she knew \u2013 and disregarded \u2013 the grave harm her conduct was causing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn October 2023, Sangha and her associate sold Perry 51 vials of ketamine, which were given to Perry\u2019s personal assistant. The assistant injected Perry with at least three shots of ketamine, which caused the actor\u2019s death. On Oct. 28, 2023, the \u201cFriends\u201d star was found dead in a jacuzzi at his Los Angeles home. On Dec. 15, an autopsy ruled that Perry died from the acute effects on ketamine, with contributing factors that included the effects of\u00a0buprenorphine, drowning, and\u00a0coronary artery disease.<\/p>\n

\n\tSangha\u2019s associate and Perry\u2019s assistant also pleaded guilty to narcotics charges and are awaiting sentencing. Two other men who sold ketamine to Perry have been sentenced in the case. Salvador Plasencia sold ketamine to Perry, pleaded guilty to four counts of distribution and is serving 2.5 years in prison; Mark Chavez was sentenced to three years of probation after pleading guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute ketamine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jasveen Sangha, the drug dealer known as the \u201cKetamine Queen,\u201d was sentenced to 15 years in prison Wednesday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[76111,32150,9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-189971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-ketamine-queen","9":"tag-matthew-perry","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-queens","14":"tag-queens-headlines","15":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}