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.