Who are Jasveen Sangha’s parents? All about North Hollywood Ketamine Queen’s life as she pleads guilty to Matthew Perry’s death

A woman named Jasveen Sangha has agreed to plead guilty to five federal felony counts related to Matthew Perry’s death in October 2023 from a ketamine overdose, the United States Department of Justice revealed on Monday, August 18, 2025.

Sangha, 42, is nicknamed the “Ketamine Queen” of North Hollywood. Her mother is Nilem, while the identity of her biological father remains undisclosed. She is the former stepdaughter of Ashok Sahadevan.

Jasveen, who has remained in federal custody since her arrest in August 2024, is expected to officially enter a guilty plea in the next few weeks. Following that, she will face a statutory maximum sentence of a total of 45 years for her five criminal charges. Her sentencing hearing will happen by the end of this year.

The charges against her include one count of maintaining a drug-involved premises, three counts of distribution of ketamine, and one count of distribution of ketamine resulting in death or serious bodily injury, according to the DOJ.

Exploring the life of Jasveen Sangha amid her conviction in Matthew Perry’s death

Jasveen Sangha was born and raised in the upscale Los Angeles suburb of Calabasas, and her parents were the owners of a franchise business. She was a “meticulous and studious” student in high school, according to a friend’s statement to the New York Post.

Later, she attended the University of California, Irvine, before moving to the United Kingdom to pursue an MBA at the Hult Business School in London in 2010. She now has dual citizenship in the USA and the UK.

However, after returning to Los Angeles, she underwent nose and face cosmetic surgeries and began running a nail salon. After a failed venture, Jasveen Sangha became a party promoter and often hung out with the likes of DJ Khaled, Charlie Sheen, and Perla Hudson, the ex-wife of Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash.

Subsequently, she began cooking liquid ketamine at her home in the San Fernando Valley and emerged as the “Ketamine Queen” of North Hollywood.

In fact, before being arrested for Matthew Perry’s fatal ketamine overdose, Jasveen Sangha was taken into custody for being a “large-volume drug dealer.” Federal officers found three pounds of meth, mushrooms, cocaine, and dozens of ketamine vials at her home during a March 2024 raid. Her mother, Nilem, had to post her bail worth $100,000.

Meanwhile, Nilem, 67, and her second husband, Ashok Sahadevan, 68, had their own set of legal problems. They ran five KFC outlets across California in 2008, through their agency Tasty Birds Management. However, they faced lawsuits from both the state as well as KFC Corporation.

In 2010, two employees at their Eureka outlet took legal action accusing Jasveen Sangha’s mother and stepfather of failing to pay for their vacation hours, overtime, and lunch breaks. In the wake of this, California's Department of Industrial Relations sought help from the court to make the couple pay $12,000 in compensation.

Meanwhile, KFC Corporation filed a federal lawsuit against Nilem and Ashok for not paying royalties to the chain. In 2013, the court decided that the pair needed to pay a fine of $52,526.65, which increased to $62,877 in December 2015.

While Sahadevan declared bankruptcy, Nilem was asked to pay the full amount. It remains undisclosed whether she paid off the debt. Ashok’s bankruptcy filing revealed he owed many others money. In 2020, he was convicted of a DUI, hit-and-run property damage, and served a month in the Los Angeles County Jail and was ordered to serve an additional 36 months on probation.

As for Jasveen Sangha’s mom, her 4BHK house in Tujunga, which is worth $1.2 million, went into foreclosure in April 2024. Ashok Sahadevan was listed as the co-owner.

Jasveen Sangha originally pleaded not guilty to the federal charges against her in Matthew Perry’s death. However, she recently agreed to enter a plea deal. Sangha sold and supplied Perry’s live-in personal assistant, Kenneth Iwamasa, with the ketamine that killed the actor. Iwamasa is now facing a maximum sentence of 15 years.

Others involved in the conspiracy to cover up the crime, who have since been convicted, include TV director-producer Erik Fleming, San Diego physician Mark Chavez, and Salvador Plascencia.

Jasveen also pleaded guilty to selling four vials of ketamine to Cody McLaury in August 2019, who later died from an overdose.

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