Maria Gabriela Perez, 51, is the owner of Beverly Hill's salon Chez Gabriela Studio where she specializes in keeping celebrity's skin looking beautiful, but Perez is now facing charges for using the credit card information from her celebrity clients for her own benefit.
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| Perez's Beverly Hills Salon |
Perez is accused of fraudulently charging hundreds of thousands of dollars onto credit cards belonging to Liv Tyler, Anne Hathaway, Halle Berry and Melanie Griffith.
She skin care guru has allegedly put over $68,000 unauthorized charges on a card belonging to high-end jewelry designer Loree Rodkin.
Perez made most of the purchases from her studio by entering the card numbers manually. She kept the credit card information so that she would not need to swipe the plastic in order to make the purchases.
Her web site still includes celebrity testimonies including one from Jennifer Aniston - although on her web site she misspells "Anniston." Aniston tells Good Morning America that she stopped seeing Perez five years ago:
"I knew something like this would eventually happen because there's no way you can get away with that. It's terrible."
It has also been reported that Perez stole $214,000 from Tyler over a period of five months last year.
Perez faces two counts of fraud that carry a maximum prison sentence of 25 years if she is convicted.
Written by Nikky Raney
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