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Report: 60 Minutes paid $75,000 for Belle Gibson interview

When Tara Brown interviewed disgraced author over profiteering from lies, Nine was allegedly paying her handsomely.

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More details on 60 Minutes interview payments have emerged in the press today, with a report that Nine paid $75,000 for Tara Brown’s interview with disgraced author Belle Gibson.

Fairfax Media has revealed an invoice and remittance advice show two separate payments each of $37,500 to Ms Gibson’s lawyers in July 2015 under the reference, ‘60 Minutes – Belle Gibson interview’.

Nine has previously claimed it does not comment on payment for interviews.

But this is not correct.

In 2014, 60 Minutes producer Tom Malone said of an interview surrounding the ‘Baby Gammy’ case, “We never comment on any commercial arrangements between 60 Minutes and our interview subjects but given the nature of this story, it’s important our viewers know that no money has been or will be paid to the parents.”

In 2012 A Current Affair confirmed it did not pay for an interview with the wife of killer Max Sica. Also in 2012 60 Minutes confirmed no payment for interviews with the girlfriend of Kings Cross bash victim Thomas Kelly. In 2009 ACA also confirmed no payment for interviewing family members at the centre of a “Kyle & Jackie O” radio prank.

Belle Gibson is now facing a profile Consumer Affairs case in the Federal Court after failing to donate monies from her book to charity.

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