The couple famously bilked investors and employees of her Pure Food and Wine eatery in New York City for millions before being arrested in Tennessee in 2016 after Strangis ordered pizza and chicken wings from Domino’s. Find out how Alec Baldwin knew Sarma Melngailis and Anthony Strangis, as well as the true nature of Baldwin’s relationship with the plant-based bombshell before her magnificent fall from grace.
Is Alec Baldwin vegan?
Baldwin went vegan in 2011 for health reasons as well as ethical and moral ones. “Every time sitting at a dining table, we make a choice. Please choose vegetarianism,” he said in a 2019 op-ed for CNN. “Do it for the animals. Do it for the environment and for the sake of your own health.” Baldwin specifically cites the impacts of switching to plant-based diets over meat on climate change, writing, “In wealthier countries, we also need to shift our diets away from rampant overconsumption, notably of meat, and toward a nutritious mix of plant-based foods that are less resource-intensive, require less land and are better for our health. That means us: you and me. A shift to a more plant-rich diet can help save the planet.”
Did Sarma Melngailis and Alec Baldwin date?
Melngailis and Baldwin were never an actual couple, but they were interested in one another. Baldwin was a regular at Pure Food and Wine and tweeted about going specifically to stare at Melngailis. “I met Alec Baldwin at the restaurant,” Melngailis says in Bad Vegan. “We talked a lot on the phone and via email. Sometimes when you meet somebody, and you feel like you already knew them, it kind of felt like that with him.” They bonded over a love of animals that extended far beyond any attraction or connection with one another. Journalist Allen Salkin said in the docuseries, “My understanding of her relationship with Alec Baldwin is that he was a regular customer at the restaurant, and that, like a lot of the gentlemen who went there, he had a bit of a crush on Sarma. When Alec was talking to her about wanting to have somebody important in his life, she would, instead of offering herself as that potential person, um, suggest that maybe he should adopt a dog.” Melngailis and Baldwin hung out a few times, with her admitted she slept over at his place once but didn’t sleep with him ever. “I had never gone any further with Alec because I was in a relationship. And then it was like a few months later, we split up anyway, and then Alec ends up with somebody,” she recalled in Bad Vegan. “I had always kind of felt like, you know, he’s a lot older than I am. But then he ends up with somebody who’s like way younger than me.” In a 2010 blog post, Melngailis said she “loved” Baldwin and that the timing simply never worked out for them to be in a serious relationship because she was so focused on her career.
How did Alec and Hilaria Baldwin meet?
The woman Melngailis refers to Baldwin ending up with is his wife, Hilaria Baldwin. The couple met at Pure Food and Wine in February 2011. Alec wrote on Instagram in February 2019, “8 years ago, I wandered into Pure Food and Wine on Irving Place, on an unseasonably warm February evening. My friend, @bocartist and I sat down (outside!) and as I turned to my left I saw a woman who would change my life. Entirely.” Melngailis was 39 in 2011 to Alec Baldwin’s 54. Hilaria was 27 at the time. The Baldwins tied the knot in 2012.
How did Alec Baldwin meet Shane Fox?
According to Vanity Fair, Alec Baldwin set up a Twitter account for Hilaria shortly after they met. One of Hilaria’s first followers was Strangis under the username @DiscipleOfTodd, who had frequent Twitter interactions with Alec, though they didn’t seem to know one another outside of the Internet. “At the beginning it seemed like this fun thing. He seemed nice,” Hilaria told Vanity Fair. “He used to make us laugh.”
How does Alec Baldwin tie into Bad Vegan?
Melngailis began following Strangis on Twitter after noticing his interactions with Alec and Hilaria Baldwin. Melngailis said in Bad Vegan that she and Strangis went from exchanging tweets to playing Words With Friends together. From there, their bond grew, and shortly after meeting in person in New York City, they became a couple. Strangis reportedly asked Baldwin for a broker recommendation in the Hamptons, to which a somewhat skeptical Baldwin responded, “You must be selling a lot of cucumber towers over there.” Next, find out the true story behind Hulu’s The Dropout, which follows another blond female scammer Elizabeth Holmes—who also had an allegedly shady lover.
