"Ketamine Queen" Jasveen Sangha gets 15 years for Matthew Perry death

Sangha had worked with Erik Fleming to sell the ketamine to Perry’s assistant, Kenneth Iwamasa. Sangha and Fleming sold 51 vials of ketamine to Iwamasa, and he injected Perry with three doses on the day that he overdosed and died.  Both Fleming and Iwamasa are scheduled to be sentenced in the coming months, and could face years behind bars and hefty fines. Dr. Salvador Plasencia, a California doctor who had also supplied the drug to Perry, also agreed to plead guilty last year; in December, he was sentenced to 30 months in prison, per NYT.

Perry had been open about his history of substance use and abuse over the course of his life, detailing it extensively in his 2022 memoir, Friends, Lovers, And The Big Terrible Thing. He died at age 54 on October 28, 2023. The Los Angeles County coroner ruled that his death was caused by the “acute effects” of ketamine, with coronary artery disease, drowning, and the effects of the opioid buprenorphine as contributing factors.