UPDATE: According to Us Weekly, the young couple is still going
strong; a rep for the
actress/singer tells the magazine that Gomez and the embattled Bieber
have not broken up.
_____ PREVIOUSLY: Selena Gomez has broken up with boyfriend Justin
Bieber following allegations by Mariah Yeater that he is the father to
her
infant child, Radar Online reports. Gomez, 19, is said to have broken
the news to Bieber, 17, in the past 24 hours, as he fights off rumors
that he slept with Yeater backstage
after a concert and fathered her son. Bieber has
denied the allegations; the teen pop sensation appeared on the Today
Show on Friday and claimed that has "never met that woman." "I know
I'm going to be a target, but I'm
never going to be a victim," he said on the
show. "It's crazy, every night after the show
I've gone right from the stage right to my car,
so it's crazy some people want to make up
such false allegations. But to set the record straight, none of it is
true." Sources told Radar that Bieber's management is
begging Gomez to stay with the Canadian
singer, as a breakup could be seen as an
admission that he is indeed the father to the
child. It came out late Friday afternoon that
Yeater had previously accused an ex- boyfriend of fathering the child,
before bringing the allegations on Bieber. Bieber and Gomez denied
dating for months,
though they've been publicly affectionate for
quite some time. In late October, they adopted a puppy together.