Fake cancer fraudster Belle Gibson has escaped paying a ballooning $500,000 fine because of a botched legal claim against the influencer whose scam is now being retold in a Netflix series.

I rang Belle this week because I am furious. Belle Gibson in her days as a fraudster cancer faker and wellness guru. Furious that a decade after journalists rumbled her as a fraudster, her twisted ...

They certainly hadn’t taken notice of Belle Gibson. That is until a tip came in that the then darling of the wellness world, who had a legion of followers because she purported to beat terminal ...

When actor Kaitlyn Dever landed the role of infamous cancer-faker Belle Gibson, she says it felt “almost a weird calling”, adding “to say this story is personal would be an understatement.

And one of those two women is a fictionalized take on Belle Gibson, whose wellness business came crashing down a decade ago… Gibson is an Australian mother, an influencer, the author of the ...