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Cancer-con Belle Gibson got $75,000 for tell-all interview

A screen shot of Belle Gibson from the 60 Minutes interview.

A screen shot of Belle Gibson from the 60 Minutes interview. Photo: Channel 9.

Cancer-fake Belle Gibson received $75,000 for doing a tell-all interview on Channel Nine’s 60 Minutes, according to an investigation by Fairfax Media.

Documents obtained by The Age confirm that Ms Gibson received the windfall for the interview with host Tara Brown in June last year.

Ms Gibson has repeatedly refused to confirm whether she was paid for doing the interview, for which she was rumoured at the time to have been paid as much as $45,000.

Belle Gibson reportedly received $75,000, much more than was rumoured at the time.

Belle Gibson refused to confirm if she was paid. Photo: Supplied. 

Nine does not reveal payments made to interviewees, citing confidentiality reasons and has always declined to say whether Ms Gibson was paid for the interview.

But The Age’s latest revelations are likely to outrage the 11,264 people who signed a change.org petition entitled “Belle Gibson is still profiting off faking cancer”, and called for any money from the interview to be donated to cancer research.

Belle Gibson’s media-training interview with Penguin

The documents obtained by The Age confirmed that Nine made two separate payments of $37,500 to Ms Gibson’s lawyers in July 2015 under the reference, “60 Minutes – Belle Gibson interview”.

The allegations about Ms Gibson’s lies first emerged in March 2015, when Fairfax Media revealed she had fallen short of financial commitments to several charities.

Ms Gibson was later forced to confess that she had lied about having, and curing, terminal brain cancer after her book and app were pulled from stores.

Ms Gibson is now facing a Federal Court ruling against her, with the potential for up to $1 million in penalties.

As Ms Gibson has failed to front court twice over the matter, the case is being heard ex parte, or without her being present.

Consumer Affairs Victoria, which has brought the case against Ms Gibson, allege she profited off her false cancer claims, defrauded charities and misled the terminally ill, as well as her publisher, Penguin Publishing.

 

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