Jasveen Sangha was sentenced to 15 years in prison after a U.S. court found her responsible for distributing ketamine that contributed to the death of actor Matthew Perry in 2023.
AFP, via France 24, described Sangha as a British-American dealer who had built a reputation as the "Ketamine Queen" and who boasted that she supplied an elite circle of Hollywood VIPs. The sentence turns a celebrity overdose case into a broader criminal sentencing story about how controlled substances moved through a network that stretched well beyond a single buyer or seller.
The source says Sangha was jailed in connection with the drugs that killed Perry. That point matters because Perry’s death was one of the most closely watched celebrity overdose cases in recent years, and the prosecution has focused attention on the people who supplied ketamine rather than on the actor’s fame itself. The sentence reflects the court’s view of the seriousness of the distribution and the harm that followed.
The report also places the case inside a wider investigation. It says Sangha was part of a larger probe into a network supplying controlled substances. That detail suggests investigators were not looking only at one transaction, but at a chain of supply that may have included multiple contacts, multiple handoffs and a pattern of repeat access to illegal drugs.
What the supplied evidence does not do is map out every person in that network. It does not name all of the other defendants, nor does it describe any separate pleas or convictions. For that reason, the safe reporting frame is narrower: Sangha has now been sentenced, the case is tied to Perry’s death, and the authorities treated her role as part of a broader supply structure.
The sentence also gives the public a clearer sense of how U.S. courts are responding to ketamine-related harm when the drug is used outside legal or medical settings. The source does not provide a full courtroom transcript, but the length of the sentence indicates that the court regarded the conduct as serious enough to warrant a long prison term rather than a short custodial penalty.
In practical terms, the ruling closes one major chapter in a case that has been followed far beyond Hollywood. It is now a sentencing story, a drug-distribution story and a reminder that the illegal supply chain behind a celebrity death can end in a lengthy federal prison term for the person prosecutors say helped keep that chain moving.
