{"id":190593,"date":"2026-04-09T07:05:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/190593\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T07:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:05:12","slug":"ketamine-queen-sentenced-for-matthew-perrys-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/190593\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Ketamine Queen\u2019 Sentenced for Matthew Perry\u2019s Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4d8150452255fbc237316c96a342e00105-Matthew-Perry.rsquare.w330.jpg\" class=\"lede-image\" data-content-img=\"\" alt=\"Celebrities Visit SiriusXM - March 30, 2017\" width=\"330\" height=\"330\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>\n                  Matthew Perry.<br \/>\n                  Photo: Matthew Eisman\/Getty Images\n              <\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"www.vulture.com\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cmnqbnmsw000i0ifyl3usify2@published\" data-word-count=\"103\">Jasveen Sangha, known as the Ketamine Queen, was sentenced to 15 years in prison today, per the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/04\/08\/arts\/ketamine-queen-sentence-matthew-perry.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a>. She pleaded guilty in August 2025 to five charges regarding her involvement in Friends actor Matthew Perry\u2019s October 2023 death. The charges were 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. Prosecutors said in their documents that she was known to customers as the Ketamine Queen. When authorities raided her apartment, they found cocaine, 79 vials of ketamine, and three pounds of methamphetamine pills.<\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"www.vulture.com\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cmnqd6vw1000x3b7c99p7sn7x@published\" data-word-count=\"79\">In her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/matthew-perry-death-ketamine-queen-guilty.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 2025 guilty plea<\/a>, the Justice Department claimed that Sangha and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/what-happened-to-matthew-perry-trial.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Erik Fleming<\/a> sold the Friends actor 51 vials of ketamine. They gave them to Perry\u2019s assistant Kenneth Iwamasa, who injected three of them in Perry, who died. Both Fleming and Iwamasa are scheduled for sentencing later this month. Sangha is the only one whose plea deal said she caused Perry\u2019s death. At the time of her plea, Sangha\u2019s lawyer said, \u201cShe\u2019s taking responsibility for her actions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>          Sign up for the Vulture Daily<\/p>\n<p>An entertainment newsletter for the pop-culture obsessed.<\/p>\n<p>        Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice<\/p>\n<p class=\"expanded-terms \" aria-hidden=\"true\">By submitting your email, you agree to our <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/newyork\/terms\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Terms<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/newyork\/privacy\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Notice<\/a> and to receive email correspondence from us.<\/p>\n<p>  Related<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matthew Perry. Photo: Matthew Eisman\/Getty Images Jasveen Sangha, known as the Ketamine Queen, was sentenced to 15 years&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[1840,76332,76244,76111,32150,9,24,12,63,6273,122,124,123,43542],"class_list":{"0":"post-190593","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-death","9":"tag-jasveen-singha","10":"tag-ketamine","11":"tag-ketamine-queen","12":"tag-matthew-perry","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-overdose","18":"tag-queens","19":"tag-queens-headlines","20":"tag-queens-news","21":"tag-the-law"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190593","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=190593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}