Plot Synopsis

BAD VEGAN: FAME. FRAUD. FUGITIVES. is a four-part documentary series that explores how Sarma Melngailis, the celebrity restaurateur behind the New York hotspot Pure Food and Wine, went from being the queen of vegan cuisine to being known as the "Vegan Fugitive." Shortly after meeting a man named Shane Fox on Twitter in 2011, Melngailis begins draining her restaurant's funds and funneling the money to Fox after he cons her into believing he could make her dreams -- from expanding her food empire to making her beloved pitbull immortal -- a reality...but only if she continues to obey his every request without question. A few years later the couple, now married and on the lam after stealing nearly $2 million from the restaurant and its staff, are found holed up in a Tennessee motel by law enforcement. Their undoing? A charge made under Fox's real name, Anthony Strangis, for a Domino's pizza. The entire four-episode series dropped on Wednesday, March 16, 2022 on Netflix.