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Selena Gomez Accused Of Plagiarizing ‘Hands To Myself’ Music Video

By Emily Hutchinson
Published on: 04:35 PST, Feb 25, 2016

Selena Gomez is being accused of plagiarizing the music video for her latest single, “Hands To Myself.”

According to a new report by OK!, Gomez is being accused of stealing the concept for her latest music video by Lambert Moberly, the woman behind the concept for the independent film My Beautiful Stalker.

Speaking to OK!, Moberly recently claimed that Selena ripped off her original screenplay idea for her video and boldy claimed that Gomez got the idea for her “Hands To Myself” music video’s concept by reading her film’s screenplay.

“Selena Gomez stole the idea of her ‘Hands To Myself’ music video from My Beautiful Stalker screenplay,” Lambert alleged to OK!, revealing that Gomez was one of a small number of actresses who were supposedly originally interested in starring in the film.

“[Selena Gomez] was one of a handful of actresses that were interested in My Beautiful Stalker screenplay,” Lambert Moberly told the site, adding “I guess famous people can get away with stealing someone else’s ideas like this … But I still wish I got credit for all the work I did.”

According to Kicktraq, My Beautiful Stalker‘s synopsis reads, “After Mia dumps Joshua she tries to move on but after learning that he has made friends with a female suitor she becomes his stalker.”

Moberly appears to have registered the project on the site for pledges in the hopes of raising $200,000 to create the film, but the current amount raised currently stands at $0 while the project is listed as “cancelled.”

OK! is alleging that Lambert is claiming Selena Gomez was at one point in the running to play Mia, the girl who is so “obsessed” with a guy that she stalks him, and attempts to seduce him with a slew of very sexy outfits.

In Gomez’s “Hands To Myself” video, Selena plays a stalker who breaks into a famous actor’s house and waits for her man to return home as she lays seductively in his bed before being arrested for trespassing. However, in a surprising twist, it turns out that Selena’s character is also an actor, and the video ends by revealing the break-in was all part of a movie the two are starring in together.

In a December interview with Entertainment Weekly, Selena revealed that she teamed up with director by Alek Keshishian for the music video after being inspired by his work on the Madonna documentary Truth or Dare.

“I always like to find a different way of seeing a celebrity [and] Selena’s head was in the same place,” Keshishian said of their collaboration on the video last year where he also gushed over Gomez’s professional behavior on set.

“She’s such a pro. You’re working with somebody who knows how to perform to camera and for camera. We would be lighting with a stand-in and then she would come in and it would be a completely live shot with her. She’s so good at it,” the director told Entertainment Weekly of Selena, though he didn’t explicitly clarify who came up with the concept for the piece.

But plagiarized or not, there’s no denying that the music video has been very well received by Gomez’s fans. “20 [million] #HandsToMyself views in a week… What?!!,” Gomez tweeted out one week after the video’s release on January 27, “Have I mentioned I have the best fans ever? I have the BEST FANS EVER.”

Selena Gomez has yet to publicly speak out about the plagiarism allegations, through the Latin Post is claiming that a representative for Selena has “denied Moberly’s allegations” on Gomez’s behalf.

Watch Selena Gomez’s “Hands To Myself” video below.

Do you believe Lambert Moberly’s claims that Selena Gomez used her screenplay as the basis for her “Hands To Myself” music video?

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