April 8 (UPI) — Jasveen Sangha of Los Angeles, called the “Ketamine Queen” by prosecutors, was sentenced to 15 years in prison Wednesday in connection with the 2023 overdose death of Friends actor Matthew Perry.
Sangha pleaded guilty last year to federal charges related to the case, including several counts of distribution of ketamine and one count of distribution of ketamine resulting in death or serious bodily injury.
Prosecutors said Perry’s assistant bought 50 vials of ketamine, a quick-acting anesthetic that can also be misused as a hallucinogenic, and one of those vials of ketamine caused Perry’s accidental death, The New York Times reported.
Perry, who played Chandler Bing in the sitcom Friends, died Oct. 28, 2023, at age 54 after struggling with alcohol and drug addiction for years. He was found dead in a hot tub at his home in Los Angeles; an autopsy showed his death was caused
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