Dunaway’s curl up and dye
FAYE Dunaway caused a big drama at celebrity favorite Marie Robinson Salon in Manhattan after racking up a $3,000 bill for extensions to her tousled locks — complaining about the price and storming off in a huff.
“She claimed she didn’t know it was that expensive and then said, ‘I’m not paying that. I can’t believe how expensive this is. I’m only paying half!’ ” a source exclusively told Page Six.
Finally, “they took her half, but staff explained, ‘You’re going to have to pay the rest.’ And Faye stormed out screeching, ‘ This is ridiculous!’ Everyone in the salon was aghast . . . Her hair looked great — so she should pay!”
A source close to Dunaway told us that the Hol- lywood legend had gotten the extensions on a previous visit to the salon, and that this appointment was made for touch-ups. But instead of charging just for touch-ups, they charged her the full fee again.
When we reached out to Dunaway about the hair-raising incident, the star said, “I’d prefer you not run that. I’ve now paid the whole thing — but I will not be going back there because it is not the price they said it would be. So, I don’t know what to say to you except I didn’t throw a fit. I was just very alarmed at the amount they were charging me for the very small amount of hair work that they did.” She continued of the coiffure calamity, “I am a normal human being and don’t expect special favors, but I was shocked to be charged the same [fee] I had previously paid to get what was now a hair correction. I felt it was extravagant and inappropriate.”
A receptionist at the salon told us, “There’s no one here who can comment on that right now,” and salon staff didn’t return e-mails. Fusion hair extensions, made from real hair, usually cost well over $2,000 in NYC salons.
Dunaway was famously kicked out of her NYC rent-stabilized apartment, where she paid just over $1,000 a month, in 2011 after the landlord sued to evict her. She also made headlines earlier this year at the Oscars as a presenter with Warren Beatty when she announced the wrong Best Picture winner.