'Ketamine Queen' set for sentencing in Matthew Perry overdose death

Crime & Courts'Ketamine Queen' set for sentencing in Matthew Perry overdose deathJasveen Sangha pleaded guilty in September to five federal charges.Listen to this article with a free account00:0000:00Jasveen Sangha at an event in Beverly Hills, Calif., in 2022.Jojo Korsh / BFA.com / Shutterstock fileShareAdd NBC News to GoogleApril 8, 2026, 6:50 AM EDTBy Daniel ArkinThe Los Angeles woman who pleaded guilty to illegally selling the ketamine that killed “Friends” actor Matthew Perry is set to be sentenced in a federal courtroom Wednesday.Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.Jasveen Sangha, known to her drug customers as the “Ketamine Queen,” pleaded guilty last fall to five federal charges related to Perry’s 2023 overdose death. She has been in federal custody since her arrest in August 2024.In a March 25 court filing, federal prosecutors requested a prison sentence of 180 months, or 15 years, followed by three years’ supervised release. In the 24-page document, U.S. attorneys for the Central District of California called Sangha a “drug dealer who sold drugs that hurt people.”When she learned she had sold the drugs that caused Perry’s death, the prosecutors wrote, “she didn’t care and kept selling.”Sangha’s “actions show a cold callousness and disregard for life. She chose profits over people, and her actions have caused immense pain to the victims’ families and loved ones,” the prosecutors added.In a 16-page response, Sangha’s defense lawyers insisted she has “accepted responsibility for serious criminal conduct” and asked the court to impose a sentence of time served.“She does not minimize that conduct or the gravity of the consequences charged in this case,” Mark J. Geragos and Alexandra Kazarian wrote in their sentencing memorandum.Perry, 54, was found face down in the heated end of his pool at his home in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles on Oct. 28, 2023. He was pronounc...