A woman dubbed the "Ketamine Queen" has pleaded guilty to selling Matthew Perry drugs that ultimately killed him.
Jasveen Sangha, 42, admitted to five charges at a California court on Wednesday, including one count of distributing ketamine resulting in death or bodily injury.
She is the final person to be convicted in connection with the Friends actor's fatal overdose in a jacuzzi at his Pacific Palisades home on October 28, 2023. He was 53.
Sangha, a dual UK-US citizen, originally faced counts after prosecutors found dozens of vials of ketamine during a raid at her home, which was described as a "drug-selling emporium".
In a brief statement, Sangha’s defence lawyer Mark Geragos said: “She’s taking responsibility for her actions.”
As part of her agreement, Sangha also pleaded guilty to selling ketamine to Cody McLaury, who died in 2019 shortly after the purchase from a drug overdose.
A sentencing hearing for Sangha, who is being held in custody, has been set for December 10 in Los Angeles.
She faces a maximum sentence of 65 years in federal prison, according to the US Justice Department.
Sangha, who was raised in Loughton, Essex, is one of five people who officials say supplied drugs to Perry, exploiting his addiction for profit, and leading to his death.
They include: Dr Mark Chavez and Dr Salvador Plasencia, doctors who sold ketamine; Kenneth Iwamasa, who worked as Perry's assistant, helping purchase and inject the actor with ketamine; and Eric Fleming, who sold ketamine he obtained from Sangha to Perry.
Authorities accused Sangha of supplying drugs from her "stash house" in Hollywood to high-profile celebrities for at least six years.
More than 80 vials of ketamine were found at the property in a police search before her arrest last year, along with thousands of pills that included methamphetamine, cocaine and Xanax.
After learning of news reports of Perry’s death, Sangha tried to scrub her Signal app of all her communications with Fleming and urged him to do likewise.
Medical examiners concluded that Perry died from acute effects of ketamine that combined with other factors to cause the actor to lose consciousness and drown.
Perry had publicly acknowledged decades of substance abuse, including periods that overlapped with the height of his fame playing the sardonic Chandler Bing on Friends.
Ketamine, a short-acting aesthetic with hallucinogenic properties, is sometimes prescribed to treat depression and anxiety but also taken recreationally.
