Amanda Knox’s life story is being revisited in a new Hulu series, “The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox,” and her then-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, stood by her side for several years as they faced murder allegations for several years.
Knox and Sollecito were wrongfully convicted of the murder of Meredith Kercher, Knox’s roommate when she was studying abroad in Perugia, Italy, in 2007.
The pair were eventually exonerated by the Italian Supreme Court in 2015, though they spent about four years in jail for a crime they maintain they had no involvement in.
“What is happening is a big huge mistake against two human beings,” Sollecito said on TODAY in 2013. “We are innocent and we are fighting for our innocence. It is not our fault to be in this situation, actually, I don’t regret to have met her because she has nothing to do with all this tragedy, and me neither.”
Sollecito is portrayed by Giuseppe De Domenico in the eight-episode Hulu series, which recounts Knox’s legal journey, with Grace Van Patten playing Knox.
Sollecito, Knox, De Domenico and Van Patten attended the premiere of the show in New York City on Aug. 19. Here’s what else Sollecito has been up to since the Italian Supreme Court overturned his murder conviction.
What happened to Raffaele Sollecito?
Sollecito met Knox when she was studying abroad in Perugia, Italy, in 2007. On Nov. 1, 2007, Knox’s roommate Kercher was found dead in a pool of blood in their shared home.
Knox and Sollecito have said they were alone together in Sollecitoโs apartment on the night of the murder.
Days later, Italian officials arrested and charged Knox and Sollecito with the murder of Kercher, a crime both Knox and Sollecito have denied involvement in.
In 2009, Knox and Sollecito were found guilty of Kercher’s murder, and sentenced to 26 and 25 years in prison, respectively.
The pair were acquitted and freed in 2011, and Knox returned to the U.S. after spending about four years in prison, according to NBC News.
An appeals court overturned the acquittals in 2013, and after a new trial, the pair were convicted again in 2014, NBC News reported. Sollecito received a 25-year sentence, and Knox was sentenced in absentia to 28 1/2 years in prison, according to NBC News.
Giulia Bongiorno, Sollecito’s attorney, criticized the decision, saying there were errors of โcolossal proportionsโ that resulted in the guilty verdicts, according to The Associated Press.
The Italian Supreme Court made a final ruling in the case in 2015, overturning their convictions once again, exonerating both Sollecito and Knox, according to NBC News.
After the Italian Supreme Court ruling in 2015, Sollecito spoke to reporters and called the years since his arrest as a โdreadful kind of pain without an end,โ according to the BBC.
โIt is time I will never be able to recoup,โ he said. โMy mind and my soul will be marked for life, and the wound will never stop bleeding, it will never heal.โ
Where is Raffaele Sollecito now?
Sollecito is now a software engineer specializing in cloud and hybrid architectures, according to his website.
He has a master’s degree in software engineering โ visual computing from the University of Verona and a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Perugia, according to his website.
Sollecito also sat for a rare interview in the 2022 Paramount+ documentary, “Who Murdered Meredith Kercher?”
โFour years in prison. Six months of solitary confinement. And still today, I feel that bitterness. Even though I moved on with my life,โ he said in the documentary.
He added he remains “haunted” by the experience, and also addressed Kercher’s family, who has called the Italian Supreme Court decision “a defeat for Italyโs justice system.”
โItโs very hard when somebody you care about is lost forever,โ Sollecito said. โBut the truth is that I donโt have anything to do with this murder. So I hope one day they will accept it.โ
Knox and Sollecito also had a reunion in Italy 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.
In 2022, The Mirror reported Sollecito lived in Milan where he worked as a computer engineer.
Sollecito is also active on Instagram, where he posts his travels and other snaps from his life.
“Scotland & Edinburgh Fringe Festival,” he captioned a set of pictures on Aug. 10.
Knox commented on the post, asking which Hogwarts house he was sorted into, a nod to the “Harry Potter” movies being filmed throughout Great Britain. Sollecito replied with Ravenclaw, the house known for intelligence, wit and wisdom.
“Of course,” Knox replied.
