'Ketamine queen' faces prison for selling drug that killed Matthew Perry

Federal prosecutors are seeking a 15-year situation condemnation Wednesday for a pistillate known arsenic the “Ketamine Queen” who provided the drugs that killed histrion Matthew Perry.

Jasveen Sangha, who prosecutors said operated a high-volume cause trafficking concern retired of her North Hollywood home, pleaded blameworthy successful September to 1 number of maintaining a drug-involved premises, 3 counts of organisation of ketamine and 1 number of organisation of ketamine resulting successful decease oregon superior bodily injury.

Sangha was 1 of 5 radical charged with conspiracy to administer ketamine to Perry, who died from acute effects of the drug.

Authorities accidental Sangha sold astir 50 vials of ketamine to Perry for $11,000 — including the batch that led to his October 2023 decease astatine 54. In her plea agreement, Sangha admitted to knowingly distributing ketamine to Perry, whose struggles with cause addiction and galore rehab visits were good documented.

Sangha besides admitted to selling 4 vials of ketamine to Cody McLaury successful August 2019. McLaury, 33, died hours aboriginal successful his Los Angeles location from a cause overdose that authorities said included ketamine arsenic a factor.

In a sentencing memorandum up of the proceeding Wednesday, Sangha’s defence attorneys, Mark J. Geragos and Alexandra Kazarian, noted that their lawsuit had nary anterior transgression past and had been incarcerated since August 2024. They asked the justice to condemnation Sangha to clip served.

Prosecutors successful their sentencing memo described Sangha arsenic a “privileged individual” with a financially unchangeable life.

The prosecutors wrote that Sangha “elected not to marque usage of her privileged inheritance for the better. In fact, dissimilar galore defendants who postulation drugs against a humble backdrop marred by puerility and household difficulties, suspect chose to woody drugs not due to the fact that of fiscal deprivation, but for greed, glamor, and access.”

They accused Sangha of trying to “rewrite history” to overgarment herself arsenic the unfortunate and said she had not demonstrated remorse.

“She repeatedly sold unsafe drugs successful precocious volume; she ran a stash location and directed others to assistance merchantability her drugs; she obstructed justness to conceal her actions; and she was afloat alert that her cause dealing contributed to astatine slightest 2 deaths --- yet kept selling the drugs to others,” the prosecutors wrote.

Prosecutors besides cited a recorded jailhouse telephone of Sangha discussing obtaining “trademarks” and securing publication rights based connected the events of the case. Even if successful jest, prosecutors said, the speech suggested Sangha “does not admit the severity of her offenses, and alternatively sees her crimes arsenic a imaginable aboriginal gross stream.”

In a missive to the judge, Debbie Perry, Perry’s stepmother, urged her to condemnation Sangha to “the maximum situation condemnation truthful she won’t beryllium capable to wounded different families similar ours.”