Destined for prosperity, Jasveen Sangha led a lavish lifestyle and was indulged extensively by her British multimillionaire grandparents who showered her with every luxury.
However, the 42-year-old, once known as the Ketamine Queen, is set to confess in court this week to providing the popular Friends star Matthew Perry with the drugs that led to his demise – a crime that might result in a sentence of up to 65 years.
The extravagant parties and private jet travels she once enjoyed have crumbled as revelations about her operating as a notable Los Angeles drug dealer catering only to ‘high-end clients and celebrities’ have come to light.
Questions circulate as to how it all went so wrong for Sangha, who growing up lived a life of extraordinary privilege.
Her affluent grandparents, residing in a £2.7 million Essex estate adorned with Rolls-Royce, Ferrari, and Mercedes vehicles, adored Sangha with their lives revolving entirely around her, as described by acquaintances.
“Jasveen was excessively pampered as a child and as an adult, they would indulge her every whim… She’s enjoyed an opulent lifestyle,” a family insider noted.
‘She was in a massively good position, had everything going for her, but it’s all been totally destroyed.’
The grandparents, Budh and Harbhajan Singh, made their fortune from their East London clothing business, supplying luxury department stores.
The woman who went by the moniker ‘Ketamine Queen’ among her clientele lived a glamorous life and was thoroughly indulged by her wealthy British grandparents who ensured she lacked nothing.
US website TMZ claims Sangha met Matthew Perry, who had struggled with drug addiction for decades, in rehab. Perry pictured in 2012
Her wealthy grandparents doted on Sangha (centre) and their lives revolved around her, according to friends. Pictured: her mother Nilem (right) and grandmother Harbhajan Singh (left)
‘It is very sad for Jasveen’s grandma. She spoke of nothing but her, her life just revolved round Jasveen,’ a source told The Times.
Sangha and her parents moved to America in 1987, where her grandparents in Britain bought her mother a house and she was sent to a Calabasas High School where the Kardashians live.
After graduating from University of California, Irvine, one of the US’s top public universities, the generosity of her grandparents drew her back to London.
They rented her a flat in Marylebone and funded her MBA at the Hult London business school. This year the programme fee is £67,900.
Her family had hoped she would receive a good education and settle down to marry well.
Instead she was hosting drug-fuelled parties at her North Hollywood home, known as ‘Sangha’s stash house’, according to a friend.
She became acquainted with celebrities including Charlie Sheen, who has famously battled addiction, DJ Khaled and Perla Hudson, who was married to Slash, the Guns N’ Roses guitarist.
She ‘was partying a lot and being excessive on the weekends’, a male friend told the New York Post.
The disgraced 42-year-old, known as the Ketamine Queen, will admit this week in court to selling the beloved Friends star Matthew Perry the drugs that killed him – and could face up to 65 years in prison
The Friends actor played Chandler Bing (right), who was known for his witty and sarcastic humour. Pictured, with his on-screen best friend Joey Tribbiani (played by Matt LeBlanc)
The Friends actor was found dead face down in his jacuzzi back on October 29, 2023, leaving Hollywood shaken to its core after he bravely shared details of his addiction struggles with the public. Pictured April 22, 2023, six months before the day he died
The Friends cast all paid tribute to the devastating loss of their long-time colleague and friend
‘She became a huge narcissist, beyond what her grandparents could imagine,’ said the family source.
‘All they wanted for her was to find a nice Indian boy and get married, preferably somebody wealthy.’
Sangha, from Loughton in Essex, has baffled the world as to how the daughter of a doctor and born into a respectable British Sikh family, could get caught up in the sordid death of one of the most famous TV actors in the world.
The drug dealer even filmed herself ‘cooking’ ketamine on a stove and used her flat to store, pack and deal drugs, including ketamine and methamphetamine, since at least June 14, 2019, according to court documents.
US website TMZ claims Sangha met Matthew Perry, who had struggled with drug addiction for decades, in rehab.
The Friends actor was found dead face down in his jacuzzi back on October 29, 2023, leaving Hollywood shaken to its core after he bravely shared details of his addiction struggles with the public to dissuade others from following a similar path.
Just two weeks after Perry’s death in October last year, she was enjoying lychee martinis at the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Tokyo where suites cost £1,500 a night.
Back in LA, Sangha was arrested in March on drugs charges after federal agents discovered a ‘drugs emporium’ at her home including a stash of thousands of pills, three pounds of meth, mushrooms, cocaine and vials of ketamine at her home.
Investigators said they discovered a ‘drugs emporium’ at Sangha’s home during a raid in March 2024 including 79 bottles containing a clear liquid that field tested positive for ketamine
Sangha, from Loughton in Essex, has baffled the world as to how the daughter of a doctor and born into a respectable British Sikh family, could get caught up in the sordid death of one of the most famous TV actors in the world
Pictured: Courteney Cox as Monica Geller, Chandler’s love-interest and later wife
On that occasion, her mother put up $100,000 bail money.
Sangha seemed unperturbed by the charges. Just hours before she was re-arrested on August 15 by LA police in connection with Perry’s death, she was showing off a new hair cut on social media.
She also posted a photo of of a bracelet of mushroom charms with the caption ‘Pulling out old raver candy and #ravetothegrave’.
Prescutors argued it suggested Sangha would ‘persist in her drug lifestyle until death’, adding it was a ‘callous choice of words, considering that her actions have sent two victims to theirs’.
She is also implicated in the death of another victim, Cody McLaury in 2019, who died of an overdose just hours after buying ketamine from her.
The American-British dual-national is one of five people – including medical doctors and the actor’s assistant – who US officials say supplied ketamine to Perry and exploited his drug addiction for profit.
All five have entered a guilty plea and Sangha is expected to appear in federal court this week to formally enter her guilty plea.
She plans to plead guilty to one count of maintaining a drug-involved premises, three counts of distributing ketamine, and one count of distributing ketamine resulting in death or serious bodily injury.
Her attorney, Mark Geragos, told the BBC in a statement that ‘she’s taking responsibility for her actions’.
