Amanda Knox will finally begin telling the world her story. She has inked a deal with powerful literary agent Robert Barnett. Robert has brokered deals for clients like Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Hillary Clinton and more.
Knox is going to get paid!
Amanda's Italian ex-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, has also signed with a book agent of his own.
This is getting interesting. I'm ready for all the deets!
Just how many years of therapy is poor Amanda Knox, 24, going to need?! Prison officials in Italy falsely told Amanda Knox that she was HIV positive. ABC News also reports that she was sexually harassed. There were "numerous incidents in which prison officials took liberties with her in a below-the-belt manner."
A male guard even broke policy and entered her cell and made sexually-based remarks. Another incident involved an authority calling her into his office for a late night meeting in which he wanted to talk about sex.
Amanda was forced to compose a list of her sexual partners. The list was leaked to Italian media and published. She was informed that she's HIV positive.
Knox wrote in her diary at the time of the faux diagnosis: "Please oh please, let it not be true. I don't want to die."
"I think the Italian courts ... practically made sure that Amanda was going to be harassed in prison,” Vanity Fair's Judy Bachrach told ABC, “since they made her sex life so much of a focus of the first trial.”
In order to sue the prison for the alleged indiscretions, Knox would have to return to Italy. Such bullsh!t.
Vivid Entertainment has offered Amanda Knox a job, not to do porn but to represent the porn site, but she has also received some credible offers. The 24 year-old has been asked to become a guest DJ on Seattle's MOViN 92.5 FM radio station.
The station said: "We not only welcome her back home to Seattle, but we also wanted to help her family with legal bills, so we are offering her a job to be on the morning show with Brooke & Jubal for $10,000."
E! news put it best, saying: Of course, $10,000 isn't quite as tempting when you consider that it wouldn't even be a drop in the bucket of the astronomical legal fees the Knox family has racked up."
E!'s writer keeps the snark going, ending the article with: "And worth even less when you consider the price tag on the peace of mind she'd get from not accepting these novelty, vulnerability-preying gigs: priceless." Zing!
Less than two hours after the verdict in her retrial was announced, Amanda Knox boarded a flight for the US yesterday and returned to her Seattle home for the first time in over 4 years.
Shockingly accepting of the nightmare that she's endured at the hands of the Italian justice system, thanked her friends and supporters before boarding the plane, and expressed gratitude toward, "who shared my suffering and helped me survive with hope."
Her latest verdict is certain to be appealed by the prosecution, but it's extremely unlikely that Amanda will be extradited in order to face another retrial. It looks as though Amanda is free for good. Now of course, she faces a number of unique challenges, as a 24 year old woman who served four years in a foreign prison as a convicted murderer. There's certainly a hard road ahead for Amanda, but she benefits from an astounding ability to persevere and the support of a loving family.
Best of luck, Amanda.
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After spending four years of her life behind bars, American Amanda Knox and Italian Raffaele Sollecito have been found not guilty of British student Meredith Kercher's 2007 brutal rape and murder.
The Italian media portrayed Amanda Knox as a very promiscuous, cold-hearted killer who murdered her roommate in a sex and drug-fueled game gone wrong.
Knox told the police that she had been there when her roommate was killed and she heard screams, only to change her story later. Knox said that she was pressured to confess and she didn't understand or speak Italian very well at the time. Knox's DNA was found, but the methods that evidence was collected did not meet international standards.
Amanda and her boyfriend of one week at the time, Italian Raffaele Sollecito, were not home when Meredith Kercher was murdered. It was Amanda's calm demeanor after discovering that Meredith was killed that threw Italian authorities off. She was found guilty and sentenced to 26 years in jail in 2009.
Knox, a Seattle native, has spent the past four years of her life behind bars. Her parents have taken over 100 trips to Italy from Seattle since her incarceration.
Justice has finally been served! Congrats to the Knox and Sollecito family!
Amanda Knox began to cry when she began her 10-minute testimony before a Perugia, Italy, court on Monday, nearly four years after being arrested and convicted of murdering her British roommate, Meredith Kercher.
The 24 year-old Seattle exchange student has been behind bars for nearly four years now. When the judge told her that she did not have to stand to address the court, she replied, "I'm so scared it doesn't matter if I stand or sit."
"I am paying for my life for something I haven't done. I lost a friend in the worst and most inexplicable way," said a trembling Knox, who had to compose herself before continuing.
Amanda said that she's "not the person they've portrayed me to be." Amanda and her Italian boyfriend (at the time), Raffaele Solicito were convicted of the brutal killing. Knox said that people are saying she will escape, but that would not happen. "I won't escape. I just want to go home. I'm innocent and we didn't do it."
She added, "I was terrified when Meredith's body was discovered because I thought that it could have been me. Had I been there and not been with Raffaele I could have been killed, too. ... Meredith was my friend."
Amanda stated: "I did not kill. I did not rape. I did not steal. I wasn't there. I wasn't there at the crime."
Raffaele, who isn't receiving as much press here because he's Italian, told the court: "People have asked for the life in prison or the death sentence. The truth is, in prison at the end of each day, I die. I would like to leave a gift for the court. It's a little bracelet and on it it says 'Amanda and Raffaele Free.' "
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