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Amanda Knox grew up in Seattle with her mother, Edda, and younger sister, Deanna, per People Magazine. Knox attended Seattle Preparatory School, graduated in 2005, and then went to the University of Washington. She studied creative writing, German, and Italian, before moving to Perugia, Italy, as a foreign language exchange student. There, she lived with British exchange student Meredith Kercher and two other Italian roommates. She also worked part-time in Patrick Lumumba’s local Congolese bar.
In 2007, Amanda Knox’s roommate, Meredith Kercher, was found stabbed to death in her room. The killer(s) had also sexually assaulted Kercher. Knox and her then-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, faced murder charges alongside a third man, Rudy Guede. The case resulted in three convictions. Moreover, Knox received an additional three-year sentence on a count of slander for falsely accusing Patrick Lumumba of murder.
Amanda Knox served four years in prison after her first conviction. Her and Sollecito’s first acquittal came in 2011, per CNN. Knox returned to Seattle to her family at the time. However, the Italian Supreme Court overturned their acquittals, and an appellate court reconvicted them in 2014. Knox never attended the trial. A year later, the Supreme Court cleared them of all charges in Meredith Kercher’s murder, but the slander count remained.
Is Amanda Knox married & who are her children?
Amanda Knox married her husband, Christopher Robinson, in 2018 and is now a mother of two. People Magazine stated that Knox and Robinson, an author, first met at a local book launch party. They began dating in late 2015 and moved in together the following year. The couple then tied the knot in a secret ceremony in December 2018 and had a space-themed reception about two years later.
Before her marriage, Knox had told the outlet in 2017, “I don’t want to get married for the sake of getting married. My hope is that I have a partner with whom I can continue to take on the world … and I very much love Chris and feel like he is my partner.”
Then, in October 2021, Amanda Knox and her husband, Christopher Robinson, welcomed their first child, Eureka Muse Knox-Robinson. Before that, Knox also suffered from a miscarriage. In August 2023, the couple announced their second pregnancy. In September of that year, Knox gave birth to their Echo.
Amanda Knox appeared in Netflix’s Emmy-nominated documentary and published her memoir Waiting to Be Heard in 2013. She stood trial on the Patrick Lumumba slander count, and a Florence court reconvicted her on June 5, 2024. However, Knox will not go to jail as she already served four years in prison after her first conviction, reported BBC.
