Sarma Melngailis - Part 1: Bad Vegan, Meeting Mr. Fox, and Early Red Flags

22 Oct 2025 • 61 min • EN
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In part 1 with guest Sarma Melngailis, subject of the docuseries Bad Vegan and author of The Girl with the Duck Tattoo, Sarma shares about her life as the owner of a successful vegan restaurant in New York, how she met the man who called himself Mr. Fox on Twitter when he seemed to know her friend Alec Baldwin, her first impressions of Mr. Fox, and some of the initial red flags she missed. They discuss the way he slowly wormed his way into her life, how he first started asking for money in a way that seemed innocuous at first, and some of the many manipulation tactics he used to coerce her into transferring an astronomical amount of money to him--and ultimately blowing up her life. SOURCES The Girl With the Duck Tattoo See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From "Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation"

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