How much does a really smart A List hair style cost? If you're Liv Tyler it could run up to $200 000! To be clear that not only includes the cost of the hair cut, but also all the additional charges that could get run up on your credit card without your knowledge. Lovely Liv favors a salon called Chez Gabriela Studio, run by Maria Gabriela Perez. Perez boasts an A List clientele including the likes of Cher, Jennifer Aniston, and Anne Hathaway. It's not only the glitterati that are beating a path to her door. Wednesday afternoon the Secret Service dropped by with an arrest warrant.Allegedly Ms Perez was making free and easy with the credit card numbers of some of her celebrity clients. Ms Tyler, in particular, got hit up for 214 000 over the course of 5 months! She's also accused of running up 68 000 in charges on the card of an unnamed jewelry designers. This is heavy shit, and could land the hair stylist in the klink for as much as 25 years!
Jennifer Aniston was a former client of Chez Gabriella, but left after a falling out. Jen says: "We had a situation that was not cool, so I stopped going to her. Paid her the money and left. ... I knew something like this would eventually happen." A lawyer for Perez says: "At this time she is innocent of all charges. She is a legitimate business woman who provides legitimate services. We are confidant when the facts come out my client will be exonerated of all charges." Ms Perez better hope that some of her lawyer's faith in her rubs off on the Secret Service!
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In other news Sarah Palin has shown that she just doesn't know when to keep her mouth shut. Sarah had just cracked the difficult Levi Johnston problem. According to a story in the National Enquirer Palin felt that she had no chance as a 2012 presidential run as long as Levi was running his mouth publicly about her. So she lured him into a false sense of security by urging Bristol to get friendly with him, and invite him to spent quality time with the family.
The plan worked and Levi retracted all the stuff he said. He claimed that it was merely youthful indiscretion on his part. Damned by his own retraction anything he might say in the future would be regarded skeptically. However the plan hit a snag when Bristol and Levi announced their engagement and plans for a reality TV show. Sarah didn't see that one coming. When the news broke that Levi had knocked up another young woman - a childhood friend of Bristol's - the engagement was off and everything was coming up Sarah.
Soon Sarah herself would put a spanner in the works. The former Alaskan governor has recently coming out voicing support for disgraced radio shrink Dr Laura Schlessinger. Schlessinger got into a heap of trouble for using the N word repeatedly on air in response to a woman calling for advice on dealing with racist in laws. That lead to a speedy mea culpa on the partof Ms Schlessinger, and eventually her retirement announcement.
Palin has taken to twitter to support Schlessinger, claiming that she believes that Dr Laura's 1st amendment right to use racial charged language has been suppressed. Below are Palin's tweets:
Now it should be pointed out that Schlessinger's right to use racist language has not been suppressed. She can stick her head out the window and holler the N word at passer bys to her heart's content if that's what she wishes. However privately owned radio concerns don't owe her a forum. That's the technicality on which Dr Laura's persecution argument falls down. To give Laura credit, she's claiming that she will continue to voice her controversial opinions on her own time, and at her own expense, by way of youtube and the blogosphere. Freedom of speech within a free market context is as much as any conservative has a right to expect. No word yet on how this affects Palin's presidential hopes, but I don't think she's planning a Mel Gibson defense or anything.
