Amanda Knox’s wrongful murder conviction in Italy is back in the spotlight as a new Hulu limited series, “The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox” premieres on Aug. 20.
Grace Van Patten portrays Knox in the eight-episode series, in which Knox is an executive producer alongside her husband, Christopher Robinson, and Monica Lewinsky.
The series starts with Knoxโs arrival in Italy, and spans to her eventual return in 2022. Knox, now 38, tells TODAY.com there isn’t anything in the series she’s apprehensive about or embarrassed for audiences to see.
“We start it with two young girls go to study abroad in Perugia, Italy, and it’s a beautiful experience,” Knox says. “They have the whole world ahead of them. That’s who I was, and that’s who Meredith was.”
“And then we have this traumatic thing happened, and only one of us gets to survive the journey,” she adds. “And how do I carry her alongside me as I try to make sense of this traumatic thing? I think that was a really important part of our trying to do justice to something that had been a story that has been so misrepresented and so exploited.”
What has Knox done since she was released from prison in 2011? Keep reading to find out more about Knox’s life, including her books, children and involvement in the Innocence Project.
What happened to Amanda Knox in Italy?
Knox was accused of killing her roommate, Meredith Kercher, in 2007 when the pair were studying abroad in Perugia, Italy.
Knox and her then-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, were found guilty of murder in 2009, though both Knox and Sollecito were exonerated by the Italian Supreme Court in 2015.
Rudy Guede, a man whose bloody fingerprints and DNA were found at the crime scene, was convicted of murder in 2007 and was released from prison in 2021 after serving 13 years of his 16-year sentence, according to the Associated Press.
Knox, Sollecito and Guede have all denied any involvement in the British study abroad studentโs murder.
What happened when Amanda Knox was released from prison?
Knox served about four years in prison before she was acquitted of Kercher’s murder in 2011, an experience she recounted in her memoir, “Waiting to Be Heard,” which was published in 2015.
After her release from prison, Knox returned to her hometown of Seattle, where she completed her bachelor’s degree in creative writing from the University of Washington in 2014, according to Time.
However, Knox’s legal troubles didn’t end in 2011, when her acquittal was annulled and sent to a lower court for further proceedings, according to NBC News. In 2014, she was convicted again in Kercher’s murder, though the Italian Supreme Court overturned the conviction in 2015, NBC News reported.
Knox has returned to Italy several times since she was exonerated, including when she traveled back to Perugia to come face to face with the prosecutor in her first trial, Giuliano Mignini.
She also met up with Sollecito in 2022 and the pair went to Gubbio, the Italian city that they planned to visit on the day Kercher was found dead, according to The Daily Mirror.
โIt was bittersweet to go back as we were supposed to go there in such different circumstances, but it was just nice for us to be able to talk about something that wasnโt the case,โ Sollecito told the Mirror.
Knox returned to Italy again and stood in an Italian courtroom once again in an attempt to clear her name in 2024. While her murder conviction had been overturned, a slander conviction still remained on her record from when she says she was coerced by investigators into wrongly accusing bar owner Patrick Lumumba of taking part in Kercherโs murder.
Lumumba was jailed for several weeks before he was released due to a lack of evidence, according to NBC News.
The court reconvicted Knox of slander on June 5, 2024, and Knox wiped away tears in the courtroom.
โAmandaโs very upset,โ Knoxโs attorney Carlo Dalla Vedova told NBC News after the verdict. โWe were very surprised by the outcome of the decision.โ
Where is Amanda Knox now?
Knox lives in the Seattle area with her husband, Christopher Robinson. Knox and Robinson met in 2015 at Robinson’s book launch party after Knox wrote a review of his book for the West Seattle Herald.
โI was probably the only person at the party who didnโt really know who she was,โ Robinson told People in 2017. โI knew (about) Italy and some legal stuff and something that shouldnโt have happened. But I didnโt really know her story.โ
The pair married in 2020 in a space-themed wedding, Knox said in an Instagram post at the time.
Knox and Robinson share two children together: a daughter, Eureka, born in 2021, and a son, Echo, born in 2023.
The couple also co-host the “Labyrinths” podcast together, and Knox hosts several other podcasts like “Hard Knox With Amanda Knox” and more.
Knox also published another book, โFree: My Search For Meaning,โ earlier this year.
Knox told TODAY.com she is an ambassador for the Innocence Network and attends the network’s conference every year, which brings together people who work to free the innocent, prevent wrongful conviction and provide post-release support, according to the network’s website.
