Even after being exonerated 10 years ago on March 27, 2015, Amanda Knox has had to fight to clear her name in the court of public opinion.
The exoneree has used the infamous 2007 case — in which she and her boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, were accused of murdering her roommate, Meredith Kercher, while studying abroad in Italy — as a platform to advocate for criminal justice since her own conviction was first overturned in 2011.
Knox launched a podcast with her husband, Christopher Robinson, titled Labryinths with Amanda Knox, in 2020 and she has written two books. While the first recounted the details of her conviction, her 2025 memoir, Free: My Search for Meaning, chronicled her obstacles while reintegrating into society.
“I had changed,” she told PEOPLE in March 2025 of returning home after spending four years in an Italian prison. “I was now the girl accused of murder. For better or for worse, that was forever my legacy.”
Knox, who has welcomed a daughter and a son since her exoneration, tried to overturn her conviction for slander related to a confession she made about her former boss, Patrick Lumumba. An appellate court in Florence, Italy, upheld the original ruling in June 2024.
Knox spoke out about the ruling in a thread on X, where she wrote that the “Italian justice system has been gaslighting me for 17 years now,” adding, “rest assured: I’m headed back to the Court of Cassation to fight this.”
From life before her wrongful conviction to everything that’s happened since her exoneration 10 years ago, here’s an in-depth look at where Amanda Knox is now.
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