She wouldn't have a purse full of drugs at the Oscars..it was a chance to make contacts

MATTHEW PERRY'S EX ON ALLEGED DRUG DEALER

- TOM BRYANT

Just five miles from the Dolby Theatre, where Hollywood stars gathered for last night's glamorous Oscars ceremony, lies an unremarkable apartment block in an unremarkable part of town.

On previous Oscars nights it would have been there in north Hollywood that Jasveen Sangha would have got ready before allegedly making a short trip to rub shoulders with the A-listers.

But this year 41-year-old Sanghadubbed the Ketamine Queen by prosecutors-is in jail awaiting trial on charges that she sold the ketamine that killed Friends star Matthew Perry.

For Kayti Edwards, who dated the actor in 2006 before becoming his assistant, Sangha's alleged presence at high-profile events such as the Oscars was a sign of how endemic and tolerated-drug use is in Hollywood.

Kayti said: "I don't think she had a purse full of drugs at the Oscars... I think she was treating it like a networking party. When you hang around all these powerful people with money, opportunity always presents itself.

"She would have definitely made some contacts there." Sangha has denied conspiracy to distribute ketamine but, according to prosecutors, her alleged network was packed with A-listers. Her indictment reads: "She only deals with high-end and celebs... and was a major source of supply for ketamine to others as well as Perry."