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If ever there was a story ripe for the small screen, it’s that of the outrageous Melbourne con woman Belle Gibson who, in the mid-2010s, scammed millions with her claims that she had brain cancer , had donated hundreds of thousands to charity and that natural remedies can cure cancer .
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