{"id":44293,"date":"2026-08-14T12:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T07:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=44293"},"modified":"2026-08-14T12:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T07:17:10","slug":"selena-gomez-mom-mandy-teefey-accused-of-defrauding-investors-in-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=44293","title":{"rendered":"Selena Gomez, Mom Mandy Teefey Accused of Defrauding Investors in Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"segment-text-only\">\n<p>The complaint also cited an August 2025 <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/monicahunter-hart\/2025\/08\/07\/smoke-and-mirrors-how-this-entrepreneur-exaggerated-and-self-promoted-her-way-into-turmoil\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer\">Forbes<\/a> <\/em>expos\u00e9 detailing company tension that allegedly led Teefey, 50, to oust Pierson, 31, less than two years after Wondermind&#8217;s launch.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In response, Pierson&#8217;s spokesperson told the publication that she &#8220;would not characterize it as \u2018pushed out.\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLeaving Wondermind was a very difficult decision,\u201d the company co-founder\u2019s spokerperson added, &#8220;but she was proud of what they had built in the time there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>E! News has reached out to reps for Gomez, Teefey and Pierson for comment on the lawsuit but hasn&#8217;t heard back.<\/p>\n<p>The trio launched Wondermind in 2021 to create &#8220;a space to work it all out every day with candid conversations, physical tools, daily content, and a supportive community,&#8221; according to the company&#8217;s website.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The complaint also cited an August 2025 Forbes expos\u00e9 detailing company tension that allegedly led Teefey, 50, to oust Pierson, 31, less than two years after Wondermind&#8217;s launch.\u00a0 In response, Pierson&#8217;s spokesperson told the publication that she &#8220;would not characterize it as \u2018pushed out.\u2019&#8221; \u201cLeaving Wondermind was a very difficult decision,\u201d the company co-founder\u2019s spokerperson&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/20260813\/d0fd9e62-b5c8-4263-ae30-21358bdfbe2b_1786639057.jpg?fit=around%7C1200:1200&output-quality=90&crop=1200:1200;center,top","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pics-news"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}