LOS ANGELES (AFP) – A woman allegedly known as the ‘Ketamine Queen’, who prosecutors said sold Friends actor Matthew Perry the drugs that would kill him, didn’t look very regal when she appeared in a Los Angeles court this week.
If they can prove their case against Jasveen Sangha – that she made thousands of dollars from the troubled celebrity, selling him ketamine from her North Hollywood drug emporium – she might never see the outside of prison again.
In the meantime, her court appearance in a green Nirvana sweatshirt and baggy sweatpants was a far cry from the party-filled jet set lifestyle that investigators said she normally leads.
The dual British-American national was one of five people charged in connection with the October 2023 death of the much-loved Perry, who was found unresponsive in the pool of his swanky Los Angeles home.
But it was the arrest and charging of Sangha that has particularly shone a light on the seedy side of Hollywood glamour.
Court documents allege Sangha, 41, ran a huge drug operation out of her comfortable apartment – dubbed the ‘Sangha Stash House’ – where investigators discovered ketamine, methamphetamine, cocaine and prescription medication like Xanax. Her source for the ketamine, she told broker Erik Fleming – who is also charged in connection with Perry’s death – was a “master chef” and a “scientist” through whom she boasted she could “fill any order”.
“She only deal[s] with high end and celebs,” Fleming is said to have written to Perry’s personal assistant.
“If it were not great stuff she’d lose her business.”
Photos posted on the Internet show Sangha partying with actor Charlie Sheen, a man with well-documented addiction problems.
Her own Instagram account is packed with proof of a glitzy lifestyle that appears to include trips on private jets and plates of caviar in an airport lounge.
