Australian author may be sued over cancer diet lie

Australian author and blogger, Belle Gibson, faces a possible government lawsuit, after admitting that she lied about using healthy eating and natural therapies to beat a brain tumour, officials said.

The 24-year-old social media entrepreneur and author of The Whole Pantry, a cookbook that detailed her purportedly life-saving diet, admitted a year ago that she had never been diagnosed with cancer.

After a year-long investigation, Consumer Affairs Victoria, a state government watchdog, said that it had applied to the Australian Federal Court to sue Gibson and her company, Inkerman Road Nominees, which is now in liquidation, for false and misleading conduct.