Ketamine Queen Sentenced in Matthew Perry's Death

0:00It's April 8, I'm Cory with the story, and this is Entertainment and Celebrity News today, your AI-powered Entertainment Report. Jasmine Sanga, the so-called ketamine queen and Matthew Perry's main drug supplier, just got hit with 15 years in federal prison for her role in. The friend stars overdose death. She's the third person sentenced in this case, after pleading guilty to charges tie to providing the ketamine that killed the 54-year-old. The actor, back on October 28, 2023, Sanga worked with others to supply 51 vials of the drug to Perry's live-in assistant, who injected it. Months after Perry's death in his Los Angeles hot tub, feds raided her North Hollywood home and found 79 more vials of liquid ketamine, fake. Xanax pills, MDMA, and even a money-counting machine, her plea deal made her the only one so far to admit directly causing his death. Perry's family pushed hard for the max sentence, with his stepmother calling out the irreversible pain Sanga caused to so many lives.

1:02They saw no mercy in her business savvy, that preyed on addicts, and while 15 years of stiff, she dodged a possible 65-year term. Perry battled lifelong addiction, starting with legal ketamine for depression before turning to shady sources like Dr. Salvador Plesensia, who got two-and-a-half years, and Dr. Mark Chavez, who served eight months of home detention. Sanga sold him 25 vials for $6,000 cash just days before he died. Two more players, Perry's assistant Kenneth Iwamasa and middleman Eric Fleming await their sentences, closing out this dark chapter on how addiction, networks fueled a Hollywood tragedy.