{"id":585144,"date":"2026-08-30T18:10:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T18:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/585144\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T18:10:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T18:10:28","slug":"selena-gomez-pushes-back-against-frivolous-fraud-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/585144\/","title":{"rendered":"Selena Gomez pushes back against &#8216;frivolous&#8217; fraud claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 fqhmpl\">But the wider chat, outside those friendly spaces, has gone off-script and is largely on a less flattering topic, namely claims from investors who <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c8jn2811we\" class=\"LinkUrl-styles__LinkUrlStyled-sc-f4e3b82f-0 eGAhOs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">allege she breached her contract <\/a>by not properly backing the mental health platform Wondermind that she cofounded with her mother five years ago. As a result, the five investors argue, they were defrauded of the nearly $1.2m they invested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But the wider chat, outside those friendly spaces, has gone off-script and is largely on a less flattering&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-585144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}