Gibson has payment options for $410k fine

Fake wellness guru Belle Gibson has a week to ask the courts if she can make instalments to pay her $410,000 fine for duping Aussie consumers.

The cancer con artist was fined in the Federal Court in Melbourne on Thursday for five contraventions of Australian Consumer Law, in an action brought by Victoria's Director of Consumer Affairs.

Gibson claimed she had brain cancer, healed herself with natural remedies and lied to well-meaning consumers that she would donate money from her Whole Pantry app and book sales to various charities, including a boy with inoperable brain cancer.

Although she received $440,500 from the sales, she only donated about $10,000.

Further, Gibson and her company Inkerman Road Nominees - now in liquidation - only began making the small donations after the media began questioning her claims.

Justice Debbie Mortimer said Gibson not only tried to garner sympathy for her own claimed cancer, but promoted herself as generous and selfless so people would buy her products.

The court granted Gibson permission to pay the $410,000 penalty by way of instalments, on the condition she apply within a week and submit a supporting affidavit.