Ketamine Queen pleads guilty in Matthew Perry death case

Jasveen Sangha, a Los Angeles woman nicknamed the Ketamine Queen, pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal charges alleging she supplied the ketamine that led to actor Matthew Perry’s death in October 2023. Sangha, 42, entered the plea in federal court in downtown Los Angeles to five counts, 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, officials said. She is scheduled to be sentenced on December 10 and faces up to 65 years in prison under statutory maximums in the plea agreement.

Prosecutors say Sangha sold large quantities of liquid ketamine to a middleman who provided the drugs to Perry in the weeks before the actor was found unresponsive in a hot tub at his Pacific Palisades home on October 28, 2023. The Los Angeles County medical examiner determined Perry, 54, died from the acute effects of ketamine, and the autopsy listed drowning, coronary artery disease and the effects of buprenorphine as contributing factors. In court filings, prosecutors said Sangha and an associate sold the actor roughly 50 vials of ketamine in October, with some...