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Sarma Melngailis rose to fame by touting a healthy vegan lifestyle and as the owner and face of the raw food New York City vegan restaurant, Pure Food and Wine, but it was a non-vegan pizza that brought her crashing down.
With customers such as Chelsea Clinton and Alec Baldwin, Sarma Melngailis's raw-vegan restaurant made her a food-world star. Then, in 2011, she met Anthony Strangis. Now facing prison for larceny and fraud, Melngailis says she is still trying to understand the spell he cast