Jennifer Aniston and several other celebrities fell victim to credit card fraud after the owner of a Beverly Hills salon used their cards without their knowledge to buy herself a bunch of shit. According to TMZ:

According to court documents, Maria Gabriella Perez [of Chez Gabriela Studio] is accused of ripping off the credit card information from Jennifer Aniston, Cher, Liv Tyler, Melanie Griffith, Anne Hathaway and Scott Speedman … and “fraudulently [charging] approximately $280,000 worth of charges in a one year period.”

Perez had personally autographed photos of her celeb clients on her website … including one from Jennifer Aniston that reads, “Dearest Gabby, Thank you for always being so good to me!”

Jennifer Aniston has made getting screwed without getting pregnant an art form, bless her heart. Poor thing. The only thing that gets dumped on more than she does is a Boonaroo port-o-potty or maybe Snooki.

At the world premiere of “The Stench Switch” in L.A. last night:

PHOTO SOURCE: Bauer-Griffin Online

I’ve always said Lindsay Lohan was a whore, but I never thought she’d take it so literally — Lilo will be auctioning off herself to the highest bidder in order to “raise money for charity” next week. Wink, wink. The Examiner says

The celebrity auction will follow the BRIT awards in a special after-party event. The highest bidder will get to see what a real night out with a true Hollywood socialite looks like.

Top prize includes a ‘First Class flights to LA plus a week at the Peninsula Hotel and a night out with Lindsay Lohan, Sunday Brunch for 4 at The River Room, and the ultimate cinema experience at the Millbank Cinema & Media Centre for the winner + 400 friends.’

I have a feeling this “charity” is not really a charity it all, but a do-ragged coke dealer named Stabby. Sorta like the “charity” Simon Monjack set up in Brittany Murphy’s name that wasn’t actually a charity, either. According to TMZ

Tthe foundation — run by Brittany Murphy’s husband, Simon Monjack — hadn’t filed the necessary documents to qualify as a charity or nonprofit group. As soon as we called the foundation for comment, the website immediately shut down.

But late Sunday the website resurfaced with a message — it would return all the donations “until we have our non-profit status approved before proceeding to insure that we can truly honor Brittany’s charitable desires.”

And I’m sure that “paying off Simon Monjack’s credit card debt” was first and foremost among Brittany’ Murphy’s charitable desires, followed by “paying off Simon Monjack’s attorneys’ fees” and “buying Simon Monjack a dozen custom-tailored Armani suits.” It’s a shame that her dreams and desires are going to have to be shelved because of the government and their bullshit bureaucratic red tape.

And good luck finding someone who’ll bid more than a pack of Newport Ultra Lights and a couple of bus tokens for a night with this hot mess:

PHOTO SOURCE: Pacific Coast News

ABC ran a two-part investigation into Scientology last week that explored the allegedly violent tendencies of leader David Miscavige (as well as delving into the whole “aliens and volcanoes” crap on which their religion is based) in an interview with Scientology spokesperson Tommy Davis. But it seems Tommy got cold feet after the interview, because less than an hour before it was set to air, Tommy showed up unannounced at ABC’s studio in an attempt to get the segment squashed. Page Six says

In [the] interview, Martin Bashir asked Davis to comment on the church’s bizarre founding mythology, which involves an intergalactic god named Xenu who brought his people to Earth 75 million years ago and stuffed them in a volcano.

After telling Bashir he wouldn’t discuss “disgusting perversions” of the religion, Davis, with the camera still rolling, removed his microphone and stormed off the set. The dust-up was included in the piece.

But just 45 minutes before the segment was to air on Thursday, Davis showed up at ABC headquarters on West 67th Street and asked to speak to Bashir and the show’s executive producer.

“He demanded to a security guard that he be let in,” a network insider [said]. “He was told as politely as possible that the piece could not be changed. He was then asked to leave.” Adds the source, “He was not happy.”

All this comes hot on the heels of news that Oscar-winning “Crash” director Paul Haggis has publicly resigned from the church on the basis of their gay-bashing and escalating lies, and then there’s the matter of a $900,000 fraud conviction in France today. According to Yahoo News

The court convicted the Church of Scientology’s French office, its library and six of its leaders of organized fraud, [saying] the group pressured members into paying large sums of money for questionable financial gain and used “commercial harassment” against recruits.

Four of the leaders were given suspended sentences of between 10 months and two years. The other two were given fines.

Statistics indicate that he only way this religion could be more unappealing now is if it were somehow covered with bean curd and swastikas and served on the back of Margaret Cho’s thighs.

Part 2 of the interview after the jump.

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Anne Hathaway’s ex-boyfriend Raffaello Follieri was sentenced to 4½ years in prison yesterday after pleading guilty to 14 counts of wire fraud, money laundering and conspiracy back in September. According to People Magazine

Follieri, who conceivably could have faced up to 265 years in prison, had agreed not to appeal a sentence less than 63 months in prison. The bureau of prisons will decide the level of security under which he’ll be placed.

Follieri delivered a statement in which he said, “What I did was wrong and there is no point in making excuses. … I will never be able to wash away the shame. … I just hope that someday those who have been hurt by my actions will forgive me.”

I suppose 4½ years is still better than 265 years. Even though 4½ civilian years actually translates to — let’s see, carry the one, divide by five, and… roughly 3,768 ass-rapings, give or take a few. Prison years works kinda like dog years, except instead of factoring in the person’s age, you use the penis factorial as your variable. See, math can be fun!

Anne looking gorgeous at the “Rachel Getting Married” premiere in London on Tuesday: