Strangis, who had a $350,000 bond, could not pay up and stayed in jail for the better part of a year, the documentary explains. By the time Strangis plead guilty and was sentenced, he had already done his time. But he did get five years of probation, according to the New York Post.
According to his first wife, Stacy Strangis, whom he met there, when Anthony would brag that he had a huge inheritance coming and had been a Navy SEAL—which his sister says he was not—his father would back him up.
After the series debuted, Melngailis asserted that she is absolutely not in touch with Strangis. “The ending of Bad Vegan is disturbingly misleading; I am not in touch with Anthony Strangis and I made those recordings at a much earlier time, deliberately, for a specific reason,” she wrote in a March 16 blog post.
He was sentenced to one year in jail and five years probation. He was also required to pay $840,000 in restitution, reports Bustle. Melngailis accepted a plea deal and served four months in prison and received five months probation. In total, Strangis spent one year and three days incarcerated in Rikers Island.
Melngailis lives in the Harlem neighborhood of New York and is active on social media — a recent Instagram post from Dec. 24, 2022, features a photo with her dog, Leon. “Having Leon around me is extremely grounding,” she told the Netflix website Tudum earlier this year.
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How much debt is Sarma in?
According to Bad Vegan, Sarma came out of this ordeal with roughly $6 million dollars of collateral damage and debt. Her Instagram is public, and her bio reads “In mourning over Pure Food & Wine and One Lucky Duck. Rikers alum. It's a long story.” In Netflix's series, she finally tells it in her own words.
After her breakup and without Baldwin to move on with, Melngailis eventually found herself talking to Anthony Strangis, who she knew as Shane Fox at the time. To Melngailis, it appeared that "Mr. Fox" and Baldwin knew each other because they would have short, quippy conversations on Twitter.
Strangis was able to reach a plea deal — five years of probation and $840,000 in restitution — though he spent a year in jail because he couldn't pay for his own bail before the court date. Not much is known about his current whereabouts. He is still serving his probation period in Massachusetts, his home state.
I won't spoil the plot, but Sarma ends up handing over $1.7 million to Anthony Strangis and leaving the government, her employees, and investors out in the cold to the tune of $6.14 million.
He now lives in the Park Avenue area of South New York – and apparently, he's even spent time with the mafia in NY. Nowadays, calls himself the 'batman of Gramercy Park' and even has a Cash App account where people can donate to him.
She pleaded guilty to grand larceny, criminal tax fraud and scheming to defraud in exchange for five years' probation, plus four months behind bars at Rikers Island prison.
David Goggins, a triathlete, ultramarathoner and retired Navy SEAL, is often nicknamed "the toughest man alive" or "the world's toughest man" for his extreme athletic feats.
Melngailis and Strangis are not together. She filed for divorce in May 2018 after being released from prison—but according to police, their problems started before they were apprehended. "She's not fond of him. We could tell that," Sevierville, Tenn., Detective Kevin Bush told The New York Post.
Where is Bad Vegan's Sarma Melngailis now? In 2017, Melngailis pleaded guilty to theft and fraud charges and spent four months behind bars, The New York Timesreported. In May 2018, Melngailis filed for divorce from Strangis after she was released from prison.
After reportedly stealing from investors, dodging tax bills, failing to pay employees, and briefly disappearing in January 2015, Melngailis and Strangis were found and arrested by local authorities (thanks to a credit card used to order a Domino's pizza) and taken into custody in Tennessee until they could be ...
He has won a multitude of awards for his performances, including three Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe awards and seven Screen Actors Guild Awards. Alec went vegan in 2011 for both ethical reasons and health reasons. He is very outspoken on animal rights issues, often working with animal rights organisations.
Fifteen years ago, a voicemail message that the Rust actor left for his then-11-year-old old daughter was leaked and published on TMZ. In it, he screamed and yelled, calling the child a "rude, thoughtless little pig" for not answering his call at the designated time that was set.
Alec Baldwin visited the restaurant numerous times, according to the film, and even met his wife Hilaria Baldwin there. In the first episode of the series, owner Sarma Melngailis reveals she first shared a connection with the actor while he was single, but she was not.
In 2014, Melngailis owed her employees a massive five months' worth of paychecks to the tune of $40,000. In winter 2015, Pure Food and Wine staff picketed outside the restaurant to demand their pay, and by July 2015, the restaurant closed.
Netflix's Bad Vegan may be a true crime documentary but it's an accurate portrayal of how all-consuming a coercive relationship can be. If, like us, you've torn through the four episodes, you'll probably be left with one major thing on your mind: what actually happened to the couple at the centre of it?
Melngailis, who has been described as the “vegan Bernie Madoff,” is in the process of luring in investors, according to Page Six. After serving time at Rikers, she hinted at her desire to relaunch Pure Food and Wine: “I think New York would take me back,” Melngailis said back in 2019.
