Amanda Knox
American writer and activist
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| June 2024 | An Italian appellate court upheld Knox's slander conviction for falsely accusing Patrick Lumumba of murdering Meredith Kercher in 2007. She was not given additional prison time, having already served the original four-year sentence during her previous detention. |
| October 13 2023 | The Court of Cassation in Italy ordered a retrial of Amanda Knox's defamation case involving Patrick Lumumba, which was her last remaining conviction. |
| September 2023 | Knox gave birth to her second child, a son. |
| 2021 | The film 'Stillwater' was released, which Amanda Knox claimed was based on her story. She publicly accused actor Matt Damon and director Tom McCarthy of using her narrative without her consent, potentially damaging her reputation. |
| October 2021 | Knox announced the birth of her first child, a daughter, in an interview with The New York Times. |
| December 2020 | Rudy Guede was given early release and authorized to complete his sentence through community service, which Amanda Knox publicly criticized. |
| December 3 2020 | An episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit loosely based on Amanda Knox's story aired, featuring a character 'Sexy Lexi' that was a play on her media nickname 'Foxy Knoxy'. |
| February 29 2020 | Amanda Knox married author Christopher Robinson. |
| 2019 | Knox announced her engagement to author Christopher Robinson. |
| June 2019 | Knox returned to Italy as a keynote speaker at a criminal justice conference, participating in a panel titled 'Trial by Media'. |
| January 24 2019 | The European Court of Human Rights ordered Italy to pay Amanda Knox €18,400 (approximately US$20,800) in compensation for violating her rights during her initial arrest in Perugia by failing to provide her with a lawyer or competent interpreter while in custody. |
| 2018 | Knox began hosting The Scarlet Letter Reports, a television series examining the gendered nature of public shaming. |
| 2017 | Knox began devoting herself to writing and activism for the wrongfully accused, and started hosting The Scarlet Letter Reports on Facebook Watch. |
| January 14 2016 | Knox was acquitted of defamation for claiming she was struck by policewomen during interrogation. |
| September 7 2015 | The Court published a detailed acquittal report, criticizing the original investigation with terms like 'glaring errors', 'investigative amnesia', and 'guilty omissions'. The five-judge panel concluded that prosecutors failed to prove their original murder conviction scenario. |
| March 27 2015 | Italy's highest court definitively exonerated Knox and Sollecito of murder. |
| 2014 | The psychological thriller 'The Face of an Angel' was released, inspired by the media coverage of Amanda Knox's case. The film was directed by Michael Winterbottom and starred Kate Beckinsale, Daniel Brühl, and Cara Delevingne. |
| January 30 2014 | Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito were found guilty in a retrial presided over by Judge Nencini, with the judges emphasizing Rudy Guede's fast-track verdict and suggesting a staged cleanup to remove Knox's traces from the crime scene. |
| March 26 2013 | Italy's Supreme Court of Cassation overturned previous acquittals and ordered a retrial for Amanda Knox, ruling that the previous trial failed to adequately consider circumstantial evidence and did not order new DNA tests. |
| December 3 2012 | The film was transmitted in Italy on Canale 5, after Amanda Knox sent lawyers to attempt to prevent its airing. |
| 2011 | Amanda Knox returned to the United States and began working on her memoir 'Waiting to Be Heard' while completing her degree. |
| October 4 2011 | Immediately after her release, Knox returned to her home in Seattle. She was simultaneously convicted of a false accusation against her employer, but received no additional incarceration as the three-year sentence was less than time already served. |
| October 3 2011 | Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito were found not guilty of murder by the court. The judges concluded there was a 'material non-existence' of evidence to support the previous guilty verdicts. |
| May 2011 | Forensic expert Greg Hampikian stated that forensic results from the crime scene pointed to Rudy Guede as the sole killer. |
| February 21 2011 | The television film 'Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy' first aired on the Lifetime network, starring Hayden Panettiere as Amanda Knox. |
| February 3 2011 | Kercher's parents publicly criticized the Lifetime film about their daughter's murder, expressing distress over scenes depicting the killing and potential legal complications for the filmmakers. |
| 2010 | Knox was indicted on charges of defamation against the police for claiming she was struck across her head during an interview in which she incriminated herself. |
| November 2010 | Appeal trial began, presided over by Judges Claudio Pratillo Hellmann and Massimo Zanetti, which reviewed the contested DNA evidence and found numerous basic errors in its gathering and analysis. |
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