{"id":590659,"date":"2026-05-18T13:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T13:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/590659\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T13:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T13:47:08","slug":"shakira-hits-out-after-winning-50m-spanish-tax-refund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/590659\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakira hits out after winning \u00a350m Spanish tax refund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The star, who is known for hits like Hips Don&#8217;t Lie and Wherever, Whenever, added: &#8220;There was never any fraud, and the Administration itself could never prove otherwise, simply because it wasn&#8217;t true.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Yet, for nearly a decade, I was treated as guilty. Every step of the process was leaked, distorted, and amplified, using my name and public image to send a threatening message to the rest of the taxpayers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Today, that narrative crumbles, and it does so with the full force of a court ruling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She dedicated her victory to the &#8220;thousands of ordinary citizens&#8221; made to similarly prove their innocence at &#8220;the cost of economic and emotional ruin&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The star, who is known for hits like Hips Don&#8217;t Lie and Wherever, Whenever, added: &#8220;There was never&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-590659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}