Growing up in the upscale Los Angeles suburb of Calabasas, California — home to celebs like Kim Kardashian and Will Smith — Jasveen Sangha seemed on a trajectory for success that would make her parents proud.
A friend described her to The Post as “meticulous and studious” in high school. “Her parents owned a franchise business. She got into University of California, Irvine, which is a good school, and then she went to England for her MBA.”
But in March, Sangha’s mother had to bail out the 41-year-old on a $100,000 bond after she was arrested for allegedly being a “large volume drug dealer.”
Now, she stands accused of selling a lethal dose of ketamine to “Friends” star Matthew Perry.
As former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani previously told The Post, Sangha is “in a world of hurt right now … she could potentially get life in prison.”
Old friends say that the Jasveen who returned to Los Angeles after getting her MBA at Hult Business School in London in 2010 was a different person than the girl they once knew.
She looked “completely different than when she was in high school,” said one old pal. “It looked like she got a nose job and maybe other things done to her face.”
But still, she was doing business on the straight and narrow.
“Before the drugs,” said the friend, “she started a nail salon.” That business flopped.
As the friend remembers it, Sangha was being left behind by her peers. Around 2015, “Most of the people she grew up with were working professionals. They had significant others and kids.”
Sangha, on the other hand, “was partying a lot and being excessive on the weekends.”
Apparently running out of options, she tried her hand at being a party promoter. “She developed a lot of connections and hung with a clan of girls,” the friend said. “They called themselves something related to Hello Kitty.”
Among her friends was Perla Hudson, who was married to Guns ’N’ Roses guitarist Slash from 2001 to 2018. Photos on Instagram show Sangha with Hudson standing next to a private jet and in exotic locations, and with Perla and Hudson’s model son, London Hudson, at an event at Sotheby’s in Beverly Hills.
On social media, Hudson described Sangha as “My best wingman of all time.”
Other photos show Sangha with Charlie Sheen and DJ Khaled, according to the Sun.
But around 2014, said the friend, “she had a boyfriend who was significant and it didn’t work out. Friends attribute [her moving into the party world] to loneliness. She likes companionship and having people around her.”
He described her apartment as “clean with a Peloton bike and a dog that she loved. She would host kickbacks there, where you have a few people over, listen to music, hang out.
“Drugs are part of the everyday culture. I’ve never been to a party at Jasveen’s where drugs were out of the ordinary. She had access to drugs and it started to look like a viable option,” alleged the friend. “She could get liquid ketamine.”
A lawyer for Sangha had no comment.
According to TMZ, Sangha met Perry, as well as Charlie Sheen’s ex-wife Brooke Mueller in a Los Angeles-area rehab. (Neither Mueller nor Perla Hudson are accused of drug use or any other wrongdoing in connection to Sangha.)
Bob Forrest, an LA-addition specialist who has appeared on “Celebrity Rehab” alongside Drew Pinsky, told The Post that people do sometimes make future drug connections in rehab.
“Sometimes you’re in rehab with people who can get you better dope or cheaper dope or whatever,” he said.
The friend, however, said Sangha didn’t brag about her stockpile.
“To me, she was more of a middle person. She would give ketamine to me and ask me to Venmo her the money.”
