The ‘Ketamine Queen’, who allegedly sold Matthew Perry the drugs that killed him, was shamelessly posting about magic mushrooms on social media last month, DailyMail.com can reveal.
Jasveen Sangha was first charged with drug crimes in March after her home was raided and a stash of thousands of pills, three pounds of methamphetamine, mushrooms, cocaine and dozens of vials of ketamine was discovered, prosecutors say.
But Sangha continued to brazenly flaunt his alleged drug connections in social media posts in July, the Justice Department alleges.
“On July 24, 2024, the defendant posted a photo on social media wearing a bracelet with the word ‘MUSHY’ and several mushroom charms,” prosecutors wrote in a court filing Thursday, asking that Sangha remain locked up pending trial.
‘In particular, the defendant was arrested in March 2024 at the Sangha Stash Location with magic mushrooms.
‘Ketamine queen’ Jasveen Sangha is responsible for supplying the ketamine that killed Matthew Perry in October 2023, prosecutors say
In their court filing Thursday, prosecutors included a social media photo Sangha posted in July of her flaunting a beaded bracelet with the word “MUSHY” on it along with mushroom charms, which they say flaunted her alleged drug connections.
‘And on the photo, the defendant added text that reads: ‘Bringing out the old raver candy’ and ‘#ravetothegrave’, suggesting that she cannot stop and will persist in her drug lifestyle until she dies – a cruel choice of words, considering her actions have sent two victims to their own.’
Justice Department officials were referring to “Friends” star Perry, who died from a ketamine injection that Sangha allegedly sold her, and another victim, Cody McLaury, 33, who died in 2019 from a ketamine overdose the day after Sangha allegedly sold him the tranquilizing drug.
Federal Magistrate Judge Alka Sagar sided with prosecutors and ordered Sangha to remain in prison until his trial in October.
The 41-year-old Los Angeles native pleaded not guilty in court Thursday after being charged along with four others in an 18-count indictment.
Friends also told DailyMail.com that Sangha appeared unfazed by his looming court case at his 41st birthday party earlier this month, where he gave no indication he would potentially face a sentence of 10 years or more.
Los Angeles real estate agent Greg Wasik told DailyMail.com he was shocked to learn his long-time friend had been charged with selling the drugs that killed Perry, and that she seemed normal and collected as she celebrated with friends at a Hollywood bar just days ago.
“I was at his birthday party the other day and I had no idea anything like this was going on in his life,” she said.
Alleged drug dealer Jasveen Sangha has not been shy about flaunting her flashy lifestyle.
The socialite is accused of using her North Hollywood residence to store, package and distribute narcotics, including ketamine and methamphetamine.
His house was referred to in the indictment as ‘Sangha’s safe house.’
Jasveen wrote “delete all our messages” to alleged accomplice Erik Fleming on Oct. 28, the day Perry died.
“She was definitely a pretty normal person that I had known for years.”
Wasik said he met Sangha through dance music events they frequented, attending her birthday party this month, as well as a more lavish 1970s-themed event for her 40th birthday last year, where Sangha dressed in sequins, carried a pimp-style cane and posed next to a high-end Mercedes.
In their submission for Sangha’s arrest, prosecutors said she is a dual British citizen and a flight risk.
Los Angeles-based federal prosecutors Ian Yanniello and Haoxiaohan Cai said Sangha “was involved in a half-decade-long drug business selling methamphetamine, ketamine and other drugs to countless drug buyers.”
An affidavit from DEA Agent Tyler Abrego He said she was a “large-scale drug dealer” and that they recovered drugs from her “stash house” in North Hollywood that included “approximately 1,978 gross grams of orange-colored pills that field tested positive for methamphetamine and other drugs.”
The raid led to a charge of possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute filed on March 30.
Sangha was initially bailed out by her mother, Nilem Sangha, on $100,000 bail.
Nilem Sangha declined to comment when contacted by DailyMail.com at her home on Friday.
This week, Sangha’s new arrest and 10 additional felony charges were revealed, for his alleged sales of ketamine to Perry and attempts to cover up the crime when he died by deleting his text messages.
Perry’s former assistant, Kenny Iwamasa, 59, (left), and Dr. Salvador Plasencia, 42, have also been charged in connection with Perry’s death.
Perry had recently moved into his newly remodeled home and was enjoying his hot tub when he died suddenly last October.
Laying out some of the evidence they had against her, prosecutors told the judge in their filing Thursday that they found on Sangha’s phone “numerous threads with clients” on the encrypted messaging app Signal where she “discussed selling drugs” and “videos recording her ‘cooking’ liquid ketamine on a stove to turn it into powder.”
“She had conversations via Signal with a ketamine buyer about shipping vials of ketamine, where the defendant sent photos of the ketamine packaging and a photo of the shipping receipt, on March 18, the day before the search warrant was executed, promising the buyer, ‘I think you’ll like these, but remember they are double strength,'” Yanniello and Cai wrote.
Prosecutors said it was a long-running drug trafficking operation.
“For at least five years prior to her arrest, the defendant used Sangha Stash House as a location where she sold, packaged, and manufactured drugs, beginning in approximately June 2019,” they wrote.
‘Although she also sold methamphetamine and other drugs such as magic mushrooms, the defendant’s specialty was ketamine, which she regularly sold, presenting herself as a famous drug dealer with high-quality products.’
The presentation also raised suspicions about Sangha’s sources of income.
Sangha is now charged with conspiracy to distribute ketamine, maintaining a drug-related facility, possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, possession with intent to distribute ketamine and five counts of distribution of ketamine. She faces up to life in prison.
Sangha lives in a $3,000-a-month apartment in a luxury building in North Hollywood.
“It is unclear how the defendant finances the property or her current lifestyle,” Justice Department officials said.
‘Defendant Sangha rents out her safe house for thousands of dollars a month, but as pretrial services reported, Defendant Sangha has been unemployed since 2019 (prior to which she claimed to have been self-employed as an ‘artist and singer’ who did ‘art exhibitions’) and remains unemployed since her initial detention hearing.
‘The defendant was driving a rented Range Rover at the time of the initial hearing and is now renting a 2024 BMW.’
Sangha’s friend Clancy Carter, an interior designer from Orange County, told DailyMail.com she knew her friend worked in marketing and event planning for the rich and famous, and had attended previous Golden Globes and Oscars ceremonies with Carter.
“She knows a lot of people in the industry,” said Carter, 49. “She and I have been to the Golden Globes and the Oscars. There are a lot of celebrities she interacted with.”
“She always wears the most stylish designer clothes. She has a family that takes care of her,” said the mother of three. “She has never been the kind of person who needs money.”
