‘Ketamine Queen’ to plead guilty to supplying Matthew Perry with drugs

Department of Justice announced on Monday. Jasveen Sangha, 42, a dual citizen of the US and Britain who has been in federal custody since August 2024, will admit several charges including distribution of ketamine resulting in death or serious bodily injury, making her the fifth person to plead guilty in connection with Perry’s death. The 54-year-old actor, who had battled substance addiction for decades, was found dead in his Los Angeles home hot tub in 2023 after an autopsy revealed dangerously high levels of ketamine in his system. According to prosecutors, Sangha worked with middleman Erik Fleming to supply 51 vials of ketamine to Perry’s live-in assistant, Kenneth Iwamasa, who injected him repeatedly, including three fatal doses on October 28, 2023.Court filings reveal that Sangha tried to cover her tracks in the immediate aftermath of Perry’s death, instructing her associate Erik Fleming to “delete all our messages” as soon as news of the actor’s passing became public. The case is part of a wider criminal probe that has already led to guilty pleas from doctors Salvador Plasencia and Mark Chavez, who conspired to sell Perry ketamine at inflated prices, with Plasencia mocking in texts, “I wonder how much this moron will pay.” Perry, who rose to fame playing Chandler Bing on the hit sitcom Friends, had been receiving ketamine under medical supervision for depression but prosecutors say he developed an addiction to the drug, which is also widely misused recreationally. Despite his immense success, Matthew Perry’s life was deeply affected by addiction. He faced numerous struggles, including a near-fatal incident in 2018 when a drug-related burst colon left him hospitalized for months. His battles with substance abuse and repeated stints in rehab were candidly chronicled in his memoir. His 2022 memoir Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing, Perry candidly admitted that while he had been “mostly sober” since 2001, there were “about sixty or seventy little mishaps” along the way, a stark reminder of how relentless and unpredictable his battle with addiction truly was.