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The Woman Who Supplied Matthew Perry’s Fatal Dose Gets 15 Years

By Erica Coleman · May 7, 2026

In August 2019, a woman named Jasveen Sangha sold ketamine to a customer named Cody McLaury. McLaury died from an overdose hours later. His sister texted Sangha to tell her. Sangha kept selling.

Four years later, in October 2023, the ketamine Sangha supplied killed Matthew Perry.

On April 8, 2026, a federal judge sentenced Sangha to 15 years in federal prison — exactly what prosecutors had asked for, and 180 months more than Sangha’s defense team had sought. Her attorneys had asked for time served, arguing she had shown rehabilitation and remorse. The judge was not persuaded.

Sangha, 42, was known to her drug customers as the “Ketamine Queen.” She ran a distribution operation out of her North Hollywood apartment, stockpiling and selling ketamine, cocaine, counterfeit Xanax, methamphetamine, and other substances since at least 2019. Law enforcement found nearly 80 vials of liquid ketamine during a search of her home in March 2024.

Her role in Perry’s death was specific and documented. In October 2023, she worked with a dealer named Erik Fleming to supply Perry with 51 vials of ketamine — delivered to Kenneth Iwamasa, Perry’s live-in personal assistant, who repeatedly injected Perry with the drug in the days leading up to his death. On October 28, 2023, Iwamasa injected Perry at least three times. Perry was found dead in his hot tub that evening. He was 54.

The moment Sangha learned Perry had died did not slow her operation. It produced a text message. She called Fleming on Signal — an encrypted messaging app — and told him: “Delete all our messages.”

Fleming pleaded guilty in August 2024 to conspiracy to distribute ketamine resulting in death. Iwamasa also pleaded guilty and cooperated with prosecutors. Sangha initially fought the charges, then pleaded guilty in September 2025 to five federal counts: maintaining a drug-involved premises, one count of distribution resulting in death, and three counts of ketamine distribution. She faced a maximum of 65 years.

In her remarks to the court at sentencing, Sangha lamented her “poor choices” and “horrible decisions that ultimately proved tragic”. “I pray for forgiveness every day,” she said. “Thank you for giving me the harshest reality check of my life.”

Prosecutors were not moved by the contrition. In their sentencing memorandum, they noted that Sangha “had the opportunity to stop after realizing the impact of her dealing — but simply chose not to.” She knew McLaury had died from her product. She knew the risks. She kept selling anyway. “She chose profits over people,” prosecutors wrote, “and her actions have caused immense pain to the victims’ families and loved ones.”

Perry’s mother, Suzanne Morrison, and stepfather Keith Morrison walked into the courtroom together for the sentencing hearing. The “Friends” actor died more than two years ago. The last of the five people charged in connection with his death is now in federal prison.