It seems as though Amanda Knox's history with the Italian legal system has not yet come to a close as the 24-year-old, who, after spending four years in prison, was acquitted of the murder of fellow exchange student Meredith Kercher, will likely be returning to the Italian courtrooms as soon as March, this time as a…
It's been about two and a half months since Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito were freed from prison after serving four years of their sentence for the murder of Meredith Kercher. Yesterday an Italian appeals court gave a detailed explanation of why their convictions were overturned. Shockingly, it turns out that…
The Daily Mail, the British tabloid that everyone loves to hate, has had its newsprint-stained hand slapped for a major mistake it made back in October. After the Amanda Knox murder verdict was decided, its website reported incorrectly that her conviction had been upheld, when in fact it had been overturned. The…
Those of you who were waiting with bated breath for Amanda Knox and ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito to pen dueling memoirs will rejoice at the news that both have acquired literary agents. According to TMZ, Knox has signed with Robert Barnett, who has also represented a bipartisan slate of political memoirists…
Today the Daily Mail has a complete update on the life of a chick from Seattle who didn't murder anybody. Despite previous reports that she and fellow defendant Raffaele Sollecito would run off into the night together to enjoy a lifetime of forgetting to speak their native language, in a TV interview he said…
Non-Italian non-murderer Amanda Knox is slowly but surely readjusting to free life stateside after spending nearly 4 years in Italian prison. She dressed up as a mustachioed cat burglar for Halloween. She's speaking English again. And now it looks like she's got herself an American-style boyfriend, complete with a…
Though Amanda Knox has been freed after serving four years in an Italian prison, some would rather not see her celebrate Halloween again, as roommate Meredith Kercher was killed on November 1. In response to photos of Knox heading to a party dressed as a cat burglar, Kercher's father said, "I think it's very…
Amanda Knox has kept a low profile since she was freed by Italian courts, but now Raffaele Sollecito, her co-defendant and former boyfriend has decided to add more fuel to the media hysteria by gushing about Knox in the Italian magazine Oggi. He says, "We need each other — we speak to each other on the phone and write…
A lack of reliable DNA evidence was one of the main reasons Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito won their appeal, and now it's been revealed that video played during the trial shows Italian CSI investigators were in a rather jovial mood while examining the scene. While in Meredith Kercher's blood-spattered bedroom, one…
Poor, exhausted-seeming Amanda Knox has endured a stateside media frenzyapalooza since her return to America after her murder conviction was overturned by an Italian appeals court. And now, to add to the cacophony, an offer to work for Vivid Entertainment. The job isn't to have sex with mustachioed thunderdicks, and…
Today Italian TV audiences heard the first interview with one of the jurors from Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito's appeal. Judge Claudio Pratillo Hellmann said that while he still believes Knox and Sollecito may know the "real truth" about how Meredith Kercher was murdered, there wasn't enough evidence to prove…
Amanda Knox is back home in Seattle after spending four years in an Italian prison. Before leaving the airport, she told reporters she's (understandably) overwhelmed.
This afternoon, about 90 minutes after Amanda Knox was acquitted, she left an Italian prison for the first time in four years. Knox is scheduled to return to the U.S. tomorrow on a commercial flight from Rome, and we're guessing her thoughts are focused on seeing her friends and family and sleeping in her own bed. But…
Amanda Knox, the American college student convicted two years ago of the 2007 sexual assault and murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher, has had her conviction overturned by an Italian appeals court and her release has been ordered by the presiding judge. This acquittal frees Knox to leave the country on her own…
In court today Amanda Knox made a final plea to jurors before deliberations began in her appeals trial. During the 10-minute address, Knox told the court, "I've lost a friend in the worst, most brutal, most inexplicable way possible ... I'm paying with my life for things that I didn't do." The judge said the jury…
Since prosecutors called Amanda Knox a "satanic, diabolic, she-devil" earlier this week, her attorney wanted to counter their salacious description ... so he compared her to Jessica Rabbit. Defense attorney Giulia Bongiorno said yesterday in closing arguments, "Jessica Rabbit looks like a man-eater, but she is a…
In court yesterday a lawyer representing Patrick Lumumba, the man Amanda Knox falsely accused of murdering Meredith Kercher, said, "Amanda is one thing and another — that is, both Saint Maria Goretti and a satanic, diabolic, she-devil given to borderline behavior." The lawyer, Carlo Pacelli, was referring to a…
Amanda Knox is hoping that her conviction for the murder of Meredith Kercher will soon be thrown out due to questionable DNA evidence, but in court yesterday the prosecution asked that her prison sentence be increased from 26 years to life, with six months of daytime isolation.
On the eve of another hearing in Amanda Knox's appeal, the forensic scientist who conducted the DNA analysis that helped convict her is bashing an independent review that found her results unreliable. Last month, two experts from Rome's Sapienza University said DNA collected from a kitchen knife and a bra clasp should…
The Lifetime original movie Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial has been highly controversial, with both Amanda Knox and Meredith Kercher's families protesting the ripped-from-the-headlines account. So, were their concerns justified?
