Jasveen Sangha, who was known as the “Ketamine Queen,” was sentenced to 15 years in prison for giving Matthew Perry, a star of Friends, the ketamine that killed him in 2023. On April 8, 2026, a federal judge in Los Angeles handed down the sentence. Sangha had already pleaded guilty in September 2025 to charges that included giving out ketamine that led to death. Prosecutors talked about her big drug business out of a stash house in North Hollywood, where she sold Perry 25 vials for $6,000 just days before he died.
Perry was 54 years old when he died. He had trouble with addiction and got ketamine from licensed providers outside of his prescribed treatment for depression. Sangha, a 42-year-old British-American dual citizen, ran a network that gave Hollywood’s rich and famous fake Adderall, ketamine, cocaine, and Xanax. Court documents say that even though she knew her drugs caused Perry’s death, she kept selling them because she wanted to make money. This is the third sentence for one of the five defendants. Salvador Ascencio, another supplier, got 2.5 years in prison earlier. Since August 2024, Sangha has been in jail.
Sangha’s business was found as part of a larger investigation into the “wild west” ketamine scene in Hollywood. She went to events like the Oscars and talked to famous people while hiding what she was doing that was against the law. Ketamine is a dissociative anesthetic that is very dangerous when used for fun. The This case shows that there is still a lot of attention on how celebrities get drugs and how the law is enforced against illegal suppliers.
