Overview
- Sangha is set to plead guilty in the coming weeks to five counts after her August 2024 arrest, including the delivery of the ketamine dose the Los Angeles coroner said caused Perry’s October 2023 death.
- Her expected plea will replace a scheduled September trial following coordinated negotiations between the U.S. Department of Justice and Los Angeles prosecutors.
- Prosecutors have agreed to drop some charges in exchange for her confession, but Sangha remains exposed to a maximum sentence of 65 years behind bars.
- Her plea represents the latest resolution in a wide-ranging investigation that has already secured guilty admissions from Dr. Salvador Plasencia and other associates for supplying Perry with ketamine.
- Investigators based their case on the medical examiner’s finding of death by acute ketamine effects and evidence that Perry shifted from prescribed treatment to black-market purchases.