Slutty Vegan founder Pinky Cole had her Loganville home returned to her by a judge Thursday after a creditor seized it in her ongoing bankruptcy case.
Cole filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in February. Guardian Asset Management “seized” her property on Chole Dianne Drive on Feb. 20, “changed the locks, and put a notice on a street facing window,” according to an emergency motion by Cole filed March 19 in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Atlanta.
Cole, who is listed as a debtor in the emergency court motion, claimed the property was “wrongfully seized” and Guardian is violating bankruptcy code, specifically an automatic stay of “any act to obtain possession of property of the estate or of property from the estate or to exercise control over property of the estate.”
On Thursday, a judge agreed with her motion and ordered the locks be changed and the property returned to Cole, according to Channel 2 Action News.
Cole’s lawyers did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. But on Thursday evening, Cole poked fun at the situation with a video on social media that shows her watering the grass of a home as two passersby comment about the seizure.
“POV: Me actually watering my grass on my rental property that I WON back in court today🤭,” Cole wrote in a comment on the video.”
Cole founded Slutty Vegan in 2018 as a food truck, but quickly grew it to a national phenomenon. At its height, Slutty Vegan had 14 locations across the country, hourslong lines out the door and was valued at $100 million.
Last year, she lost Slutty Vegan because of mounting debt, but subsequently reacquired it in an outside-of-bankruptcy court restructuring. But the company encountered financial difficulties.
The AJC reported that Cole filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in February. Before a restructuring in early 2025, according to an AJC interview with Cole last year, Slutty Vegan was $20 million in debt.
Cole initially filed for Chapter 13 bankruptcy protection on Jan. 21, a filing that was withdrawn before she later filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Feb. 12. She owes $1.2 million to the Small Business Administration and $192,000 in state taxes, according to court documents.
The emergency motion also claims Cole plans to make the Loganville home available for lease, with April 1 as the day she “intends to rent the Property to a tenant.”
“This seizure harms Debtor’s finances, as she intended to rent the property to earn income to facilitate her reorganization and pay her creditors through a plan,” the court documents read.
Cole was recently announced as a new cast member for the Bravo television show “Real Housewives of Atlanta,” which was shot in 2025 over several months.
Credit: RODNEY HO/J
Credit: RODNEY HO/J
On March 3, soon after news of her bankruptcy filing broke, Cole posted a video on social media subtitled “What people think happens after you file bankruptcy.” In the video, she carries a French bulldog and rolls her luggage out of a house while wearing a Versace bath robe.
A statement from Cole’s attorney, Jamie Christy, sent to the AJC on Wednesday, before the hearing where the judge returned the home, said the Loganville home was an “investment property that was unlawfully seized from Ms. Cole. This unlawful seizure violated the automatic stay imposed in Ms. Cole’s bankruptcy case.”
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