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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Entertainment
Laura Connor

Netflix series shows 'Vegan Queen' who fled with $2m and was caught with Domino's pizza

Celebrities worshipped her and fine diners adored her food... but “Vegan Queen” Sarma Melngailis threw it all away with a barking-mad bid to make her pooch immortal.

Melngailis was the brains and the beauty behind swanky New York restaurant Pure Food and Wine.

The star-studded guestbook read like an A-listers Who’s Who – Woody Harrelson, Stevie Wonder, Darryl Hannah, Anne Hathaway, Owen Wilson... even ex-US President Bill Clinton. But Melngailis was to be undone by love. And gullibility.

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