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Selena Gomez, her mom Mandy Teefey, and co-founder Daniella Pierson are embroiled in a lawsuit alleging they pocketed $1.2 million from investors for mental health startup Wondermind — then vanished without building the platform, honoring marketing promises, or paying staff. The suit highlights Selena’s failure to promote the site as head of marketing, personal tensions between Selena and her mom that allegedly led to a co-founder’s ousting, and the eerie persistence of Wondermind’s website listing the founders as active. While Selena’s other ventures like Rare Beauty have thrived, this legal mess threatens her reputation — and so far, only Daniella has responded, vowing to prove her innocence.

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