'Ketamine Queen' to plead guilty to supplying dose of drug that killed Matthew Perry

Tuesday, 19 August 2025 03:24

A woman who was charged with selling Friends star Matthew Parry the dose of the drug that killed him has agreed to plead guilty.

Jasveen Sangha, known as the "Ketamine Queen", is the fifth and final defendant to strike a plea deal with prosecutors, avoiding a trial that was set to take place in September.

The 42-year-old agreed to plead guilty to five federal criminal charges, including providing the Ketamine that led to Perry's death, federal prosecutors said in a statement.

Prosecutors had cast Sangha, a dual US and UK national, as a prolific drug dealer known to her customers as the "Ketamine Queen", often using the term in court documents and even including it in the official name of the case.

She agreed to plead guilty to 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.

Sangha will officially change her plea to guilty at an upcoming hearing, where sentencing will be scheduled, prosecutors said.

She is facing up to 45 years in prison.

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Sangha and a doctor named Salvador Plasencia, who signed his own plea deal in June, had been the primary targets of the investigation.

Three other defendants - Mark Chavez, who it was claimed bought the drug from Sangha, Kenneth Iwamasa, and Erik Flemin - agreed to plead guilty last year in exchange for their cooperation, which included statements implicating Sangha and Plasencia.

Prosecutors allege Chavez funnelled ketamine to Plasencia, securing some of the drug from a wholesale distributor through a fraudulent prescription.

In one instance, prosecutors allege that Plasencia "charged Perry $2,000 (£1,500) a vial that cost Dr Chavez approximately $12 (£9)".

Perry died in his home in October 2023, aged 54, after getting ketamine from his regular doctor for treatment of depression, which is an increasingly common use for the surgical anaesthetic.

The actor was taking ketamine six to eight times a day before he died, according to court documents.

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