Woman given 15 years for role supplying drugs linked to Matthew Perry death | Courts News

The drug dealer who supplied the doses that ultimately led to Perry’s death in 2023 pleaded guilty to five felony drug counts.

Jasveen Sangha has been sentenced to 15 years in jail for her role in supplying illegal drugs to Matthew Perry, an actor from the TV show Friends, who died from the “acute effects of ketamine” in 2023.

In a court appearance on Wednesday, Sangha expressed remorse for his role in supplying the drug to Perry.

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“I take full responsibility for my actions. These were terrible choices that ultimately proved tragic,” said Sangha, 42, dressed in beige prison clothes.

District Judge Sharleen Garnett ultimately agreed with the prison term recommended by federal prosecutors and imposed a sentence of 15 years.

Sangha pleaded guilty in September to five felony drug counts related to the death of Perry, 54. His defense lawyers had sought a sentence limited to the time already served.

She was first arrested in 2024 and remained in custody for about a year and eight months.

Judge Garnett said that part of his reasoning for the harsher sentence was Sangha’s continued sale of ketamine after Perry’s death, which in his opinion showed a lack of remorse.

Perry had shared her struggles with substance abuse and prescription painkillers, including in her memoir titled Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, which was published a year before her death.

Federal authorities have said Perry became addicted to ketamine while receiving it at a clinic to help with anxiety and depression issues.

When doctors rejected her requests to increase her dosage, she turned to alternative sources, who prosecutors say exploited her addiction for financial gain.

Sangha, referred to by customers as the “Ketamine Queen”, admitted to selling 51 vials of the drug to an intermediary named Eric Fleming, who then sold them to Perry through the actor’s personal assistant, Kenneth Iwamasa.

Prosecutors say Iwamasa gave Perry at least three injections of ketamine from those vials, causing the actor’s death.

Sangha was convicted of one count of maintaining drug-related premises, three counts of illegal distribution of ketamine, and one count of distributing ketamine resulting in death.

His sentence was harsher than those of two doctors who were sentenced in connection with Perry’s death, to the dismay of his attorney Mark Geragos.

Geragos told reporters after the hearing, “There is no way that Jasween is five times more guilty than the person who injected Matthew Perry with the drug, or the doctor who received the drug.”