Cancer con woman bankrolled
What goes on behind closed doors at Belle Gibson’s Northcote rental is anybody’s guess. The cancer con canada goose outlet toronto factory woman is uk canada goose outlet certainly not saying.
What we do know is that the 27 year old who lied cheap canada goose about having terminal brain cancer to make a canada goose factory sale profit through her book and mobile app The Whole Pantry spends most of canadian goose jacket her time there.
The small, white weatherboard home in Melbourne inner north Canada Goose online is occupied by her son, who is eight, and a man she has canada goose clearance been linked to since her lies started to unravel in 2015.
His name is Clive Rothwell and, for the past four years at least, he canada goose outlet store uk has been bankrolling Gibson in whatever way she needs him to.
He pays $600 each week towards the rent, but she contributes when she can, she says.
He pays her legal fees, canada goose outlet uk including $5500 for lawyers who represented her canada goose outlet black friday in court yesterday, but part of that lump sum was gift she says.
When Belle Gibson flew overseas, via Singapore, she listed her son as the lead passenger and herself as his “companion”. The invoice was made out to her son, who is 8.
In a letter Gibson wrote to the Department of Justice, The Whole Pantry founder revealed she owed Mr Rothwell $90,000.
But when asked in court yesterday what the money was for, she said she did not know. The bill remains outstanding.
Perhaps most perplexing about Gibson relationship with Mr Rothwell is her claim that the pair are not only friends but that she does https://www.drachen-spiele.de not even know what he does for a living.
you know what Clive does? lawyer Elle Nikou Madalin asked during more than two hours of constant grilling about Gibson finances in Melbourne Federal Court yesterday.
Gibson responded: That not my business. He’s a “friend”. But Gibson claims she does not even know what he canada goose black friday sale does for work. Asked if the pair were engaged, Gibson said no.
The money Gibson spends is important because she has yet to canada goose outlet sale pay a single canada goose uk canada goose outlet store cent towards a $410,000 fine she received for five cheap canada goose breaches of consumer laws.
Gibson was ordered to pay the money after Consumer Affairs Victoria began investigating her wholefoods business which included a cookbook and app as well as her claims that her terminal brain cancer was cured by healthy eating.
The fake wellness guru business earned more than $578,000 from more than 300,000 purchases before cracks in her story started to appear.
Gibson lawyer, Andrew Tragardh, yesterday handed over two years worth of Gibson bank statements that revealed she has been using a Sportsbet gambling account and dealing in cryptocurrency.
Ms Nikou Madalin, representing Consumer Affairs, clashed with Gibson while trying to get to the bottom of Canada Goose Parka her finances.
Belle Gibson canada goose outlet and ‘friend’ Clive Rothwell. Picture: Rob LeesonSource:News Corp Australia
The pair have been linked since before Gibson’s story began to unravel in 2015. Picture: FacebookSource:Facebook
At one point, Gibson claimed the prosecutor was not goose outlet canada letting her speak.
I please finish? she asked.
Ms Nikou Madalin told her she could not.
I the examiner. You may not. I not going to argue with you. Gibson canada goose outlet parka lawyer said the line of questioning was and unacceptable but Ms Nikou Canada Goose Online Madalin said she was within her right to push the witness as long as she canada goose jacket outlet did not her.
The grilling revealed a number of inconsistencies in Gibson story. Ms Nikou Madalin focused in on the trip to Africa.