Where is Amanda Knox now? See what's become of the exonerated exchange student ahead of Hulu's Th...

Knox serves as an executive producer on the eightpart series alongside Monica Lewinsky. Where is Amanda Knox now? See what's become of the exonerated exchange s

Knox serves as an executive producer on the eight-part series alongside Monica Lewinsky.

Where is Amanda Knox now? See what's become of the exonerated exchange student ahead of Hulu's The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox

Knox serves as an executive producer on the eight-part series alongside Monica Lewinsky.

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- In 2009, American exchange student Amanda Knox was tried for the violent murder of her roommate, though she was later exonerated.

- The case, which prompted a media frenzy at the time, is the subject of a new Hulu series, *The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox*, executive-produced by Knox.

- Knox is now a published author and podcaster.

Amanda Knox was only 20 years old when the Seattle-born exchange student was imprisoned in Italy for a murder she didn't commit. Her story became instant tabloid fodder, with tawdry stories labeling her "Foxy Knoxy" circulating in the press and tainting her trial.

Now, roughly two decades since her 2007 arrest, Knox is serving as an executive producer on Hulu's *The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox*, an eight-part limited series from creator and executive producer K.J. Steinberg (*This Is Us*).

Joining Knox and Steinberg as an executive producer is another former tabloid pariah, Monica Lewinsky. Grace Van Patten (*Tell Me Lies*) stars as Knox in an ensemble that also includes Sharon Horgan, Francesco Acquaroli, John Hoogenakker, Giuseppe De Domenico, and Roberta Mattei.

"I had trouble remembering that [Amanda] was a baby when this happened, because the press did such a number, and because we, as a consumer society, fed on it and bought it," Steinberg recently told **. "I had this image of her as this woman. She was called 'Foxy Knoxy.' She was this vixen. You don't call a 20-year-old child a 'vixen.' It just doesn't line up, and I think the false narratives around her, created this sense of womanhood around her, which was strange and unearned, and people quickly forgot that she was a child."

Ahead of the series, which premieres on Hulu on Wednesday, Aug. 20, here's everything to know about Amanda Knox, including her alleged crimes, her legal battles, and where she is now.**

Who is Amanda Knox?

Grace Van Patten as Amanda Knox on 'The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox'; Knox escorted by security on Sept. 26, 2008 in Perugia, Italy.

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Born in Seattle in July 1987, Knox graduated from the Seattle Preparatory School in 2005 before enrolling at the University of Washington. In 2007, Knox chose to study abroad in Perugia, Italy.

By September, she was living overseas in an apartment with three other women, one of whom was a 21-year-old British exchange student named Meredith Kercher. Within a few months, Knox began dating Raffaele Sollecito, a 23-year-old software engineering student she met at a classical music concert.**

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On Nov. 2, 2007, Knox became worried about Kercher. As reported by NBC News, Knox told authorities that upon returning to her apartment that morning, she and Sollecito noticed the front door was open and that there were bloodstains in the bathroom. Furthermore, they found Kercher's bedroom door locked.

Later, a friend of another of Knox's roommates kicked open Kercher's door. Inside, Kercher was found dead with a slashed throat.

What happened to Amanda Knox?

'The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox' on Hulu.

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On Nov. 5, 2007, Knox and Sollecito were detained for questioning. A few weeks later, an alleged confession from Knox was released. According to CNN, she later claimed it was "made under the pressures of stress, shock and extreme exhaustion," adding, "Not only was I told I would be arrested and put in jail for 30 years, but I was also hit in the head when I didn't remember a fact correctly." (Italian officials denied any physical violence against Knox.)

In a 2013 interview with Diane Sawyer, Knox claimed that she was with Sollecito at his house on the night of the murder. "We had dinner. We watched a movie. We smoked. We had sex. We were together," she said. "I smoked a joint with Sollecito, and what that did to my memories was it made them less concrete, but it didn't black them out and it didn't change them. We stayed in the whole night."

Giuseppe De Domenico as Raffaele Sollecito; Sollecito at the Meredith Kercher murder trial on Sept. 14, 2009 in Perugia, Italy.

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In July 2008, Knox and Sollecito were formally charged with Kercher's murder, as was Rudy Guede, a friend of Kercher's whom investigators found had had sexual relations with her the night of her death. According to CNN, Guede claimed "another man killed her while he was in the bathroom."

That October, Guede was found guilty of murder and sentenced to 30 years, though his sentence was reduced to 16 years after a 2009 appeal.

Knox and Sollecito's murder trial kicked off in January 2009, and was covered breathlessly by media outlets around the world. Knox and Sollecito maintained their innocence, while prosecutors argued that the pair worked with Guede to, per the BBC, "make the death look like part of a failed burglary" after Knox killed Kercher as part of a "sex game."**

In December, she and Sollecito were found guilty on all counts. Knox was sentenced to 26 years, and Sollecito was sentenced to 25 years.**

Was Amanda Knox wrongfully convicted?

Stefano Cassetti and Grace Van Patten on 'The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox'.

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It was a long, winding journey, but Knox and Sollecito were both found to have been wrongfully convicted of Kercher's murder in 2015.

The pair's original murder conviction was overturned on appeal in October 2011. Italy's Supreme Court of Cassation tossed out that acquittal in 2013 and ordered a retrial. Knox and Sollecito were again found guilty in 2014. The court later explained, per CNN, that the pair were convicted due to evidence that Kercher was killed by more than one person.

Lawyers for Knox and Sollecito appealed the decision and, a year later, Italy's Supreme Court decided to overturn their convictions, declaring them innocent. In an accompanying explanation, the court cited "glaring errors" in the investigative process and poor police work, as well as the pressure put on local authorities by the media circus around the case.

"That has meant that the investigations suffered a sudden acceleration, which, in the frantic search for one or more culprits to be delivered to international public opinion, certainly did not (facilitate) seeking the truth," read the court's statement.**

Where is Amanda Knox now?

Amanda Knox at the 'Los Angeles Times' Festival of Books at the University of Southern California on April 26, 2025 in Los Angeles.

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After being released and returning to the U.S. following her first appeal, Knox studied creative writing at the University of Washington. In 2013, she published her first book, *Waiting to Be Heard: A Memoir. *This March, she released another book, *Free: My Search for Meaning, *in which she writes about how she "survived prison, the mistakes she made and misadventures she had reintegrating into society," as well as the "extraordinary relationship she's built with the man who sent her to prison."

In 2016, she appeared in a Netflix documentary, *Amanda Knox*, about her case. A few years later, she began hosting a Vice series, *The Scarlet Letter Reports*, in which she talked to public-facing women about "being sexualized, scrutinized, and demonized by the media."

Knox has also hosted numerous podcasts about true crime, parenting, and other topics. Currently, she hosts *Hard Knox*, which finds her chatting with public figures such as Lewinsky, prosecutor and author Marcia Clark, and travel guru Rick Steves.

She's seen her story inspire numerous films, books, and series, some more direct adaptations than others. In 2021, she criticized the film *Stillwater*, which stars Matt Damon and centers on a murder case similar to Knox's, for "[reinforcing] an image of me as a guilty and untrustworthy person."

She was recently the recipient of the 2024 Innocence Network Impact Award, which "[honors] an exonerated or freed person who raises awareness about wrongful convictions, policy issues, or assists others post-release."

She married Christopher Robinson, a novelist and poet, in 2020. The pair have two children, 4-year-old Eureka Muse and Echo, who turns 2 next month.

Where can I watch The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox?

Grace Van Patten as Amanda Knox on 'The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox'.

Disney/Adrienn Szabó

Hulu will drop the first two episodes of *The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox* on Wednesday, August 20. New episodes will arrive weekly.**

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