After her arrest, the press loved to harp on the fact that a Domino’s pizza order to a hotel room in Tennessee was the thing that finally took the famed vegan chef Sarma Melngailis down. Of course, ...

The strange story involves Strangis reportedly using “cult-like techniques” to manipulate Melngailis into giving him more than US$1.2 million over a period of around three years. According to the ...

Netflix’s Bad Vegan subject Sarma Melngailis rose to fame with the success of her fine-dining raw vegan restaurant, Pure Food and Wine. After stealing from her business, she and then-husband Anthony ...

How Did Sarma Melngailis & Anthony Strangis Meet? After Kenney and Melngailis broke up, she kept Pure Food and Wine going. Around 2011, she began talking to Anthony Strangis — a stranger with a ...

After opening successful fine-dining raw restaurant Pure Food and Wine and subsidiary One Lucky Duck Juice and Takeaway, chef Sarma Melngailis met Anthony Strangis, who identified as Shane Fox at the ...

Sarma Melngailis is accusing Netflix of “mocking” the “psychological abuse” she allegedly suffered at the hands of her ex-husband, Anthony Strangis. The former couple is at the center of the ...

Seems like even disgraced comedian Louis C.K. fell under fraudster restaurateur Sarma Melngailis’ spell. In a series of emails between the two in 2012 Louis C.K. pines for the chef, telling her in one ...

Netflix's four-part limited documentary series Bad Vegan is set to be released on March 16 Stephanie Wenger is a TV Writer/Reporter at PEOPLE. She joined the brand in 2021 as a digital news writer, ...

A fugitive vegan restaurateur who allegedly failed to pay her workers and stole from investors finally faced a judge — and her former employees — in Brooklyn court Thursday. Raw foodie Sarma ...

Foodie-turned-fraudster Sarma Melngailis is divorcing her estranged husband in the wake of their 2017 guilty pleas in a $1 million vegan restaurant scam. Melngailis, who had owned the high-profile ...

She was called the “vegan Bernie Madoff”, and her story is now on Netflix. This week marks the premiere of Bad Vegan: Fame. Fraud. Fugitives., the latest true crime docuseries from Chris Smith. Before ...