FRIENDS NO MORE: Matthew Perry's Killer Dealer Jailed for 15 Years

Jasveen Sangha, 42, a dual US-UK citizen known on the streets as the "Ketamine Queen," was sentenced on Wednesday by US District Judge Sherilyn Garnett.

This was the harshest punishment handed down among the five people convicted over the beloved actor's death.

Sangha had faced a maximum of 65 years behind bars after pleading guilty in September to five felony drug charges, including distributing ketamine resulting in death.

Federal prosecutors had pushed for exactly the 15-year term the judge ultimately imposed. Her defence had argued she should walk free on time already served, having been held since August 2024.

Standing before the court ahead of sentencing, Sangha made a brief statement that drew little sympathy from those in the room.

"These were not mistakes. They were horrible decisions," she said, adding that she carries her shame "like a jacket."

Perry was discovered by his personal assistant floating face down in the hot tub at his Los Angeles home on October 28, 2023. He was 54.

An autopsy determined he died from the acute effects of ketamine, which rendered him unconscious and caused him to drown.

Perry's stepfather Keith Morrison, a correspondent for NBC's Dateline, addressed the court on behalf of the family, describing a "daily, grinding sadness" shared by himself and Perry's mother.

"There was a spark to that man I have never seen anywhere else," Morrison said.

"He should have had another act. Two more acts."

Prosecutors outlined how Perry had initially been receiving medically supervised ketamine infusions to treat depression and anxiety. When his clinic refused to increase his doses, he turned to illegal suppliers.

Sangha ultimately sold 51 vials of ketamine to a middleman dealer, Erik Fleming, who passed them to Perry's personal assistant Kenneth Iwamasa. It was Iwamasa who injected Perry with at least three doses from those vials on the night he died.

Sangha also admitted to selling ketamine to another person in August 2019 who died of an overdose hours later.

Fleming, Iwamasa and two physicians — Mark Chavez and Salvador Plasencia — have all separately pleaded guilty to federal drug offences connected to the case.

Perry had long spoken openly about his battles with addiction, most recently in his 2022 memoir Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing. In the book, he described how substance dependency had nearly claimed his life on multiple occasions.