{"id":190201,"date":"2026-04-08T23:08:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T23:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/190201\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T23:08:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T23:08:34","slug":"matthew-perrys-ketamine-queens-prison-sentence-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/190201\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Perry’s ketamine queen’s prison sentence revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matthew Perry\u2018s personal drug dealer, nicknamed the \u201cKetamine Queen,\u201d has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison, Wonderwall.com<\/a> can report.<\/p>\n

Jasveen Sangha is the third person to be sentenced in connection with the actor\u2019s 2023 overdose death.<\/p>\n

Matthew Perry\u2019s personal drug ring
\nMatthew Perry was found dead in the hot tub at his Los Angeles home. By: MEGA<\/p>\n

Sangha is one of five individuals \u2014 along with Dr. Salvador Plasencia, Dr. Mark Chavez, Erik Fleming and Perry\u2019s former live-in personal assistant, Kenneth Iwamasa \u2014 who were charged in the sitcom star\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

The 42-year-old previously pleaded guilty to five federal criminal charges, including providing the ketamine that resulted in the Friends star\u2019s overdose.<\/p>\n

She was also accused of working with Fleming to sell Iwamasa 51 vials of ketamine for Perry, which Iwamasa is believed to have injected, causing his death on October 28, 2023.<\/p>\n

Five months later, federal authorities raided Sangha\u2019s home in North Hollywood and found 79 vials of liquid ketamine. According to her plea agreement, authorities also found counterfeit Xanax pills, MDMA tablets and a gold money counting machine.<\/p>\n

Sangha is the only person in the group whose plea deal included an acknowledgment of causing Perry\u2019s death, and she was handed down the stiffest sentence of the group so far.<\/p>\n

Family members demanded more
\nJasveen Sangha pleaded guilty to providing the ketamine that killed Matthew Perry. By: Jasveen Sangha\/Instagram<\/p>\n

Sangha might have gotten off easy. She could have been sentenced to up to 65 years behind bars.<\/p>\n

Perry\u2019s family was hoping to see a harsher sentence. In a victim impact statement submitted on Tuesday, April 7, Perry\u2019s stepmother raged, \u201cThe pain you\u2019ve caused to hundreds, maybe thousands, is irreversible.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no joy. \u2026 No light in the window. They won\u2019t be back,\u201d she continued. \u201cYou caused this. \u2026 You who has talent for business enough to make money chose the one way that hurts people.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPlease give this heartless woman the maximum prison sentence so she won\u2019t be able to hurt other families like ours,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Matthew Perry\u2019s death details
\nA raid of Jasveen Sangha\u2019s home yielded countless amounts of drugs. By: US DOJ\/MEGA<\/p>\n

As previously reported, Perry was discovered unresponsive in his hot tub on October 28, 2023, after receiving multiple doses of ketamine administered by Iwamasa, who is not a trained medical professional.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors allege that after Sangha learned of Perry\u2019s death, she began frantically deleting text messages and instructed Fleming to purge his digital history.<\/p>\n

Sangha\u2019s attorney, Mark Geragos, argued that she deleted text messages in a moment of \u201cpanic.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPanic and poor judgment is not the same as willful obstruction,\u201d Geragos wrote in a filing while noting there\u2019s no evidence showing investigators were unable to recover the messages.<\/p>\n

Matthew Perry had a lifelong addiction to painkillers
\nMatthew Perry\u2019s stepmother asked for a harsh sentence. By: MEGA<\/p>\n

Perry, who had lifelong struggles with addiction, had been using ketamine legally for depression but reportedly wanted more than his doctor was willing to prescribe.<\/p>\n

That at first led him to Plasencia, who admitted to illegally selling ketamine to Perry and and was sentenced to two and a half years in prison.<\/p>\n

Perry later met Sangha, who sold him 25 vials of ketamine \u2014 including the fatal dose \u2014 for $6,000 in cash, just four days before his death.<\/p>\n

Chavez, who admitted to providing Plasencia the ketamine he sold to Perry, was sentenced to eight months of home detention.<\/p>\n

Perry\u2019s assistant, Iwamasa, and his friend, Fleming, both admitted to acting as the actor\u2019s middlemen. They are the final two awaiting sentencing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matthew Perry\u2018s personal drug dealer, nicknamed the \u201cKetamine Queen,\u201d has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[76110,32150,9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-190201","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-jasveen-sangha","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\/190201","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=190201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}