'ketamine Queen' Pleads Guilty In Matthew Perry’s Overdose Death

The Los Angeles female known arsenic nan “Ketamine Queen” pleaded blameworthy Wednesday to 5 national counts successful relationship pinch the fatal overdose of “Friends” character Matthew Perry successful 2023, according to a spokesperson for nan U.S. District Court for nan Central District of California.

Jasveen Sangha, 42, pleaded blameworthy to 1 count of maintaining a drug-involved premises, 3 counts of distribution of ketamine, and 1 count of distribution of ketamine resulting successful decease aliases superior bodily injury.

Sangha, a dual national of nan U.S. and nan U.K. who has been successful national custody since August 2024, faces a maximum situation condemnation of 65 years, prosecutors said past period successful a news release. She is group to beryllium sentenced connected Dec. 10.

Perry was recovered look down successful nan heated extremity of his excavation astatine his Los Angeles location connected Oct. 28, 2023. He was 54.

The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office attributed nan actor’s decease to an accidental overdose of ketamine, a hallucinogenic anesthetic that successful caller years has gained fame arsenic an off-label, unregulated curen for depression.

Perry, champion known for playing Chandler Bing connected “Friends,” said openly astir his struggles pinch supplier and intoxicant addiction, chronicling immoderate of those experiences successful nan 2022 memoir “Friends, Lovers, and nan Big Terrible Thing.”

In his last months, Perry had been undergoing ketamine infusion therapy to dainty slump and anxiety. But he sought unsupervised doses, processing a dependence connected nan supplier that was “spiraling retired of control” starring up to his death, prosecutors person said.

The aesculapian examiner’s agency said nan magnitude of ketamine recovered successful his assemblage was balanced to nan magnitude utilized successful wide anesthesia.

Sangha worked pinch a man named Erik Fleming to springiness ketamine to Perry, prosecutors person said, citing Sangha’s plea agreement. In nan period of Perry’s death, Sangha and Fleming sold Perry immoderate 51 vials of ketamine and provided them to Kenneth Iwamasa, nan actor’s live-in individual assistant, according to prosecutors.

Iwamasa many times injected Perry pinch nan ketamine starring up to nan fatal overdose, prosecutors person said — including astatine slightest 3 shots connected nan time Perry was recovered dead.

Sangha called Fleming connected nan encrypted messaging exertion Signal aft learning from news reports that Perry had died, according to prosecutors. “Delete each our messages,” Sangha instructed Fleming.

Fleming pleaded blameworthy successful August 2024 to 1 count of conspiracy to administer ketamine and 1 count of distribution of ketamine resulting successful death. Iwamasa pleaded blameworthy nan aforesaid period to 1 count of conspiracy to administer ketamine causing death.