According to court documents in the case, a witness
claimed that Cher, Melanie Griffith and former "Felicity" television
star Scott Speedman were also victims of the fraud.
The owner of Chez
Gabriela Studio is accused of swindling $214,000 from Tyler alone in a
five-month period last year, according to a court affidavit.
The US
Attorney's office in Los Angeles said salon owner Maria Gabriella Perez, 51, is
accused of making at least $280,000 of fraudulent charges in a one-year
period.
Perez is alleged to have used credit card information provided by
celebrities and other clients for legitimate services, and later entered the
details manually to run up unauthorized charges.
Aniston, Hathaway, Cher,
Tyler, Griffith and Speedman were named in the court papers as among those who
saw unauthorized charges on their credit cards.
Representatives for Cher,
however, told celebrity website TMZ.com that the singer and actress was not a
victim and did not know why she had been named in the court papers.
Perez
is charged with two counts of fraud and faces a maximum 25 years in prison if
convicted. She was arrested without incident at her Beverly Hills salon and was
due to appear in federal court in Los Angeles later on Wednesday.
