Jennifer Aniston on Getting Credit-Card Scammed: "Not Cool"

Beverly Hills hairdresser allegedly racked up charges using star clients' credit card info

UPDATE 3: Maria Gabriela Hashemipour ultimately agreed to plead guilty to one felony count of defrauding her clients and was ordered to pay restitution up to $1 million. The charge carries a maximum 10-year prison sentence, but authorities expect she'll receive much less time, though she is now at risk of being deported to her native Mexico.
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UPDATE 2: Perez was released on a $50,000 bond Thursday and ordered back to court for arraignment on Sept. 20.

UPDATE: While Tyler declined comment, Aniston addressed the situation during a stop on Good Morning America Thursday.

"We had a situation that was not cool so I just stopped going to her. I knew something like this would eventually happen because there's no way you can get away with that. It's terrible."

More terrible, Aniston said, was what happened to the other clients, as she said the wrongdoing directed at her "wasn't to the extent of these other girls."
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This hairdresser to the stars may have taken too much off the top.

A Beverly Hills salon owner was charged Wednesday with collecting credit card info from star clients such as Jennifer Aniston, Liv Tyler, Anne Hathaway and Cher and running up nearly $300,000 in charges.

Federal agents arrested Maria Gabriella Perez at her shop, Chez Gabriela Studio, without incident Wednesday.

Perez is facing up to 25 years in prison for two counts of access device fraud for, among other things, allegedly charging up to $214,000 on two of Tyler's American Express cards over a five-month period.

Financial info belonging to Scott Speedman, Melanie Griffith and jewelry designer Loree Rodkin, whose card allegedly fell prey to a $68,000 charge by Perez, was also discovered in the course of the investigation, according to a report prepared by U.S. Secret Service Special Agent Michael de Geus.

Perez's attorney, Jerod Gunsberg, said his client would be acquitted of all charges.

"Ms. Perez has run a legitimate business for years," he said. "She's provided excellent service to her clients for years. There are facts in this case that have not yet come out, that will come out. When they do, we are confident that she will be exonerated."

She's due in federal court on Thursday.

—Additional reporting by Whitney English

(Originally published on Aug. 18, 2010 at 5:00 p.m. PT)