{"id":585759,"date":"2026-08-15T19:08:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T19:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/585759\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T19:08:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T19:08:15","slug":"selena-gomez-slams-completely-meritless-wondermind-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/585759\/","title":{"rendered":"Selena Gomez Slams ‘Completely Meritless’ Wondermind Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSelena Gomez<\/a> and her legal team have released a fiery statement after the \u201cOnly Murders in the Building\u201d star was accused of defrauding investors in her mental health startup, Wondermind, in a federal lawsuit filed Thursday. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe allegations that Selena Gomez engaged in any way whatsoever in any purported \u2018fraud\u2019 or other wrongdoing are completely meritless, both factually and legally,\u201d Gomez\u2019s litigator, Mathew S. Rosengart, told People<\/a>. \u201cWe will vigorously defend these false allegations and indeed are filing a motion to dismiss the baseless claims against her.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to The New York Times<\/a>, the lawsuit, which also names Gomez\u2019s mother and Wondermind co-founder Mandy Teefey as a defendant, claims the Wondermind team \u201cfalsely represented\u201d the trajectory and leadership structure of the media company, which was founded in 2021 as a way to make mental health resources more accessible. Investors claimed that Gomez and her mother solicited about $1.2 million from them.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe suit alleges that Gomez had signed a contract stating that she would be \u201cactively building the company as its head of marketing,\u201d but has since \u201cignored\u201d the agreement. It also claims that there were said to be partnerships with Fidelity and J.P. Morgan that would allow Wondermind to provide mental health services to their employees, but they \u201cdid not exist.\u201d Celebrity profiles, a \u201cgroundbreaking app\u201d and advertising deals that were promised also fell through, the lawsuit states.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe lawsuit also says that Wondermind \u201cquietly collapsed around them,\u201d while \u201cnot one of its founders, officers, or directors said a word to the investors.\u201d Investors claim they only found out about the \u201cutter financial and operational disarray at Wondermind\u201d from a 2025 story published by The Cut. The expos\u00e9 alleged that Gomez was trying to distance herself from the company and outlined the messy firing of chief executive Daniella Pierson.<\/p>\n

\n\tTeefey has yet to comment on the suit, but Pierson told The New York Times that she \u201ccategorically denies the allegations against her and welcomes the opportunity to present concrete documentation and financial records that establish the facts.\u201d<\/p>\n

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