The 'Ketamine Queen' Finally Folds in Matthew Perry Case

The woman who allegedly ran a North Hollywood drug den like it was a Fortune 500 company is finally throwing in the towel. But here's the real kicker — she should've been behind bars long before Matthew Perry ever met her.

Jasveen Sangha, the self-styled "Ketamine Queen," has agreed to plead guilty to selling Perry the drugs that killed him. But buried in the court documents is something that should make your blood boil: the feds raided her place in March 2023 and found 79 vials of ketamine, plus a money-counting machine. Perry died seven months later, in October.

The System's Epic Failure

Here's why Sangha was still walking free after that raid: ketamine exists in a frustrating legal gray area. Unlike finding a brick of heroin, ketamine is a legitimate medical drug used for anesthesia and depression treatment. Possession alone isn't automatically illegal. Prosecutors needed to prove distribution, build a case, flip witnesses — all while she kept selling.

But wait, it gets worse. This wasn't even her first body. Prosecutors now admit she sold ketamine to Cody McLaury in August 2019, and he died within hours. That's right — four years before Perry's death, another person overdosed on her product. No charges. No investigation that mattered. Nothing.

Why? Because McLaury wasn't famous. Without the media circus and federal resources that come with a celebrity death, his case probably just became another file in Los Angeles County's overwhelming stack of unsolved overdoses. The system didn't care enough to connect the dots until someone famous died.

The Cover-Up Attempt

When Perry died on October 28, 2023, Sangha immediately jumped on Signal to coach her middleman Erik Fleming on damage control. "Delete all our messages," she told him.

Fleming, panicking, left her a voicemail two days later: "I'm 90% sure everyone is protected. I never dealt with [Perry]. Only his Assistant. So the Assistant was the enabler."

Nothing says "innocent" quite like immediately plotting your alibi and throwing a dead man's employee under the bus.

The Chain of Failure

This whole operation worked like a pharmaceutical pyramid scheme. Sangha sold to Fleming, Fleming sold to Perry's assistant Kenneth Iwamasa, and Iwamasa — with zero medical training — became Perry's personal injection specialist. On the day Perry died, Iwamasa admitted to giving him at least three shots.

The medical professionals are just as guilty. Dr. Salvador Plasencia pleaded guilty to distributing ketamine through Iwamasa, while Dr. Mark Chavez admitted to supplying Plasencia. Two doctors, an assistant playing nurse, a middleman, and a dealer — all now heading to sentencing between September and December.

The Bitter Truth

Here's what really stings: Perry spent decades being brutally honest about his addiction struggles. He wrote a memoir. He turned his Malibu mansion into a sober living facility. He tried to help others get clean.

Jennifer Aniston recently revealed the "Friends" cast had been mourning Perry long before his actual death, watching him battle demons for years. Now they're watching his dealers plead guilty one by one, knowing this could've been prevented if anyone had cared about Cody McLaury back in 2019.

What Happens Next

Sangha faces decades in prison on five federal charges, including distribution resulting in death. She's copping to running this operation since at least June 2019 — four months before McLaury died, four years before Perry died, and continuing even after the feds found her stash.

Her attorney Mark Geragos says she's "taking responsibility for her actions." That's nice, but it's about four years and two bodies too late.

The sentences roll out this fall — Chavez in September, Iwamasa and Fleming in November, Plasencia in December. Sangha, as the last to fold, will probably get hers last.

But here's what won't happen: Nobody will admit that the system only works when famous people die. In the end, we're left with two dead men, five people heading to prison, and the ugly truth that in America's war on drugs, some casualties matter more than others.

The "Ketamine Queen" should've been dethroned years ago. Instead, it took Chandler Bing dying for anyone to truly care.