Belle Gibson's life now - new identity and cruel final scam Apple Cider Vinegar doesn't show

Apple Cider Vinegar has made a splash connected Netflix since its large debut, and fans are hopeless to cognize much astir the shocking real-life scammer.

Kaitlyn Dever delivers an outstanding show in the shocking existent communicative of Belle Gibson, a social media fraudster who cruelly tricked her followers into believing she was battling terminal encephalon crab to beforehand her unfounded and unsafe wellness remedies and recipes.

In the infancy of societal media, arsenic Instagram was conscionable opening to summation traction, Belle exploited the spot of her immense online audience. The existent Annabelle Natalie Gibson, 33, is simply a convicted con creator from Australia who developed The Whole Pantry mobile app and its accompanying cookbook.

She falsely professed to person been diagnosed with assorted cancers, including a malignant encephalon crab for which she was fixed weeks to live. She claimed that she was effectively managing these done diet, earthy medicine, and alternate therapies.

Belle, who was calved successful Tasmania, besides claimed to person donated a important information of her company's profits to charities, a connection that turned retired to beryllium false. It was lone successful 2015 erstwhile she was accused of making fraudulent claims astir her charitable donations that the information astir her cancer, idiosyncratic life, and adjacent her property came to light.

Her lavish manner was funded by the wealth she falsely claimed had been fixed to charity. As the information unfolded and her societal media followers began to region themselves, she confessed successful an April 2015 interrogation that her crab diagnosis was a lie.

Now, arsenic the mini-series tops Netflix charts globally, viewers are near wondering: what became of Belle aft she disappeared from nationalist view? The aftermath of her web of deceit is conscionable arsenic melodramatic arsenic the main narrative. From her caller individuality to her divided with her long-time spouse Clive, and the details of her last scam - here's what Apple Cider Vinegar didn't reveal...

New identity

In Apple Cider Vinegar, a situation absorption adept (portrayed by Phoenix Raei) advises Belle that her estimation has been truthful tarnished by her deceit that the champion people of enactment is to presume a wholly caller identity.

Interestingly, she did conscionable that successful world - astatine slightest for a while. After being unmasked arsenic a crab fraudster, she maintained a debased illustration for respective years earlier re-emerging successful January 2020 arsenic an African activist.

Belle had affiliated herself with a radical representing Ethiopia's Oromo people, changed her name, adopted a headscarf, familiarised herself with African politics, and adjacent began speaking breached English.

Introducing herself arsenic 'Sabontu', she referred to the East African state arsenic 'home' and worryingly tried to rise funds for the taste group's homeland. It remains unclear whether Gibson profited from immoderate fundraising efforts. Ethiopian assemblage sources disclosed astatine the clip that Gibson had attended BBQs, weddings, and assemblage meetings to endear herself to the Oromo community.

However, the president of a salient Oromo diaspora radical successful Victoria aboriginal confirmed that Gibson was not a registered volunteer. "We hadn't been alert of this pistillate and we bash not cognize her backstory," president Tarekegn Chimdi told Daily Mail Australia. He added that assemblage members had ever assumed she was accompanying a friend. "She is not a assemblage subordinate and she's besides not moving with the community... She has to halt [telling radical she is]."

Despite being ostracised from the group, Belle was spotted inactive wearing the accepted apparel of the Ethiopian assemblage a twelvemonth later, successful 2021.

Split from Clive Rothwell

One of the astir perplexing figures successful the Belle Gibson communicative is her partner, Clive Rothwell, who is portrayed by Ashley Zukerman successful Apple Cider Vinegar.

Throughout the full crab scam, Clive supported Belle by helping rise her lad from a erstwhile relationship, Oliver, and providing fiscal assistance. He has not been implicated successful her fraudulent activities, and determination is nary proposition of his involvement.

Despite Belle claiming she knows small astir Clive oregon his assemblage (he is reportedly an IT consultant), 1 of her friends has described him arsenic her "partner." Clive is said to person covered astir of the rent for the location they shared and adjacent paid for a month-long travel to Africa successful 2019 for Belle and her son.

However, soon aft Netflix announced Apple Cider Vinegar and histrion Kaitlyn arrived successful Australia to statesman filming, Clive had intelligibly had enough. It seems the antheral who had been referred to arsenic everything from "boyfriend" to "housemate" to "benefactor" has moved on.

According to the Mail Online, Clive has since moved into a two-bedroom flat crossed municipality successful Melbourne, and successful November 2023, helium was spotted with different woman. Clive reportedly declined to remark erstwhile asked if the pistillate was his caller partner.

Final swindle

In the aftermath of her crab fraud, the Federal Court of Australia took enactment against Belle. In 2017, pursuing a lengthy and melodramatic trial, Belle was recovered blameworthy of misleading the nationalist into believing that earthy remedies could cure terminal cancer.

The tribunal recovered that she had nary tenable ground for believing she had cancer, but concluded that she whitethorn person suffered from "a bid of delusions astir her wellness condition." She was instructed to wage AU$410,000 (£207,713) for mendacious claims astir charitable donations. Coupled with her ineligible costs, she is required to wage astir fractional a cardinal AUD dollars (£253,289).

When imposing the fine, the justice characterised Belle arsenic having a 'relentless obsession with herself and what serves her champion interests'. Nearly a decennary has passed since then, and she has reportedly neither paid the fine, nor served immoderate jailhouse time.

In the consequent years, contempt claiming to beryllium penniless and incapable to find employment owed to her infamy, Belle is said to person taken holidays to Bali and Africa. When she was approached by Australian tabloid quality amusement A Current Affair past twelvemonth portion astatine a petrol station, she played the unfortunate erstwhile again, telling the reporter: "Have immoderate humanity. I haven't paid things due to the fact that I can't spend to. You cognize I can't get into the workplace."

Her existent fiscal concern remains unclear but according to Daily Mail Australia, Belle's tremendous indebtedness is inactive unpaid. A spokesperson for Consumer Affairs Victoria told the work they were 'continually pursuing Annabelle Natalie Gibson (also known arsenic Belle Gibson) to retrieve her outstanding debt.

Despite her troubles, Belle seems to beryllium starring a comparatively mean beingness arsenic a azygous parent successful suburban Melbourne.