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LOS ANGELES \u2014\u00a0A woman known as the \u201cKetamine Queen,\u201d charged with selling\u00a0Matthew Perry\u00a0the drug that killed him, agreed to plead guilty Monday.<\/p>\n
Jasveen Sangha becomes the\u00a0fifth and final defendant charged\u00a0in the\u00a0overdose death of the \u201cFriends\u201d star\u00a0to strike a plea agreement with federal prosecutors, avoiding a trial that had been planned for September.<\/p>\n
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<\/div>\n She agreed in a signed statement filed in court to plead guilty to five federal criminal charges, including providing the ketamine that led to Perry\u2019s death.<\/p>\n In a brief statement, Sangha’s lawyer Mark Geragos said only, \u201cShe’s taking responsibility for her actions.\u201d<\/p>\n Prosecutors had cast Sangha, a 42-year-old citizen of the U.S. and the U.K., as a prolific drug dealer who was known to her customers as the \u201cKetamine Queen,\u201d using the term often in press releases and court documents.<\/p>\n She agreed to plead guilty to one count of maintaining a drug-involved premises, three counts of distribution of ketamine, and one count of distribution of ketamine resulting in death or serious bodily injury.<\/p>\n The final plea deal came a year after federal prosecutors announced that five people had been charged in Perry’s Oct. 28, 2023 death after a sweeping investigation.<\/p>\n Sangha admitted in the agreement to selling four vials of ketamine to another man, Cody McLaury, hours before he died from an overdose in 2019. McLaury had no relationship to Perry.<\/p>\n Prosecutors will drop three other counts related to the distribution of ketamine, and one count of distribution of methamphetamine that was unrelated to the Perry case.<\/p>\n Sangha will officially change her plea to guilty at an upcoming hearing, where sentencing will be scheduled, prosecutors said. She could get up to 45 years in prison. The judge is not bound to follow any terms of the plea agreement, but prosecutors said in the document that they will ask for less than the maximum.<\/p>\n She and\u00a0Dr. Salvador Plasencia, who pleaded guilty last month, had been the primary targets of the investigation. Three other defendants \u2014 Dr. Mark Chavez, Kenneth Iwamasa and Erik Fleming \u2014\u00a0pleaded guilty in exchange for their cooperation,\u00a0which included statements implicating Sangha and Plasencia.<\/p>\n Perry was found dead in his Los Angeles home by Iwamasa, his assistant. The medical examiner\u00a0ruled that ketamine,\u00a0typically used as a surgical anesthetic, was the primary cause of death.<\/p>\n Sangha presented a posh lifestyle on Instagram, with photos of herself with the rich and famous in cities around the globe. Prosecutors said she privately presented herself as a dealer who sold to the same kind of high-class customers.<\/p>\n Perry had been using ketamine through his regular doctor as a legal, but off-label, treatment for depression, which has become increasingly common. Perry, 54, sought more ketamine than his doctor would give him. He began getting it from Plasencia about a month before his death, then started getting still more from Sangha about two weeks before his death, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n Perry and Iwamasa found Sangha through Perry\u2019s friend Fleming. In their plea agreements, both men described the subsequent deals in detail.<\/p>\n Fleming messaged Iwamasa saying Sangha\u2019s ketamine was \u201cunmarked but it\u2019s amazing,\u201d according to court documents. Fleming texted Iwamasa that she only deals \u201cwith high end and celebs. If it were not great stuff she\u2019d lose her business.\u201d<\/p>\n With the two men acting as middlemen, Perry bought large amounts of ketamine from Sangha, including 25 vials for $6,000 in cash four days before his death. That purchase included the doses that killed Perry, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n On the day of Perry\u2019s death, Sangha told Fleming they should delete all the messages they had sent each other, according to her indictment.<\/p>\n Her home in North Hollywood, California, was raided in March 2024 by Drug Enforcement Administration agents who found large amounts of methamphetamines and ketamine, according to an affidavit from an agent. She has been held in federal custody for about a year.<\/p>\n None of the defendants has yet been sentenced.<\/p>\n Sangha also agreed in her plea deal not to contest the seizure of her property that went with the investigation, including more than $5,000 in cash.<\/p>\n Perry\u00a0struggled with addiction\u00a0for years, dating back to his time on \u201cFriends,\u201d when he became one of the biggest stars of his generation as Chandler Bing. He\u00a0starred alongside\u00a0Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc and David Schwimmer for 10 seasons from 1994 to 2004 on\u00a0NBC\u2019s megahit series.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source spectrumnews1.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" LOS ANGELES \u2014\u00a0A woman known as the \u201cKetamine Queen,\u201d charged with selling\u00a0Matthew Perry\u00a0the drug that killed him, agreed to plead guilty Monday. Jasveen Sangha becomes the\u00a0fifth and final defendant charged\u00a0in the\u00a0overdose death of the \u201cFriends\u201d star\u00a0to strike a plea agreement with federal prosecutors, avoiding a trial that had been planned for September. 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