It's a court case that dominated headlines at the time; the murder of British exchange student Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy with the courts initially finding her housemate Amanda Knox and her boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito guilty of the heinous crime.
Knox, who was just 20-years-old when facing a hefty 26 year jail sentence when she was wrongly convicted of murder in Italian court, immediately became catnip to salacious tabloid titles who thirstily followed the case and sensationalised any updates. She was branded as 'Foxy Knoxy', with Knox herself revealing she felt as if she was portrayed as a "dirty, psychopathic, man-eater" in the press. She spent years fighting for her freedom - and was acquitted in 2011 after an appeal, in which she immediately flew back to the US. While Knox was reconvicted in 2014 following a retrial, the Italian supreme court permanently exonerated her and Sollecito in 2015 - meaning her ordeal was finally over.
After a brief hiatus from public life, Knox returned to the spotlight in 2016 to recount her fight for justice in the Netflix documentary Amanda Knox.
Now, Knox's story will be retold in the hotly-anticipated Disney Plus drama The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox, with the eight-part series allowing Knox to reclaim the narrative that was stolen from her. Nine Perfect Strangers star Grace Van Patten plays Knox, with the real Knox also serving as executive producer.
Here, Cosmopolitan UK explores where Knox is now, and what she has accomplished now she has dedicated her life to miscarriages of justice.
She's a best-selling author
After finishing her undergraduate degree in creative writing at the University of Washington, Knox wrote a memoir about her fight for justice in 2013 titled Waiting to Be Heard, which became an instant bestseller.
Knox released her second book, Free, in 2025, which details her 'quest for meaning'.
She's now married and has started a family
Knox got engaged to Seattle-based author Christopher Robinson on November 21, 2018. The pair met at a book launch and officially started dating in late 2015. Apparently, Robinson barely knew who Knox was when they met. “I was probably the only person at the party who didn’t really know who she was,” he told People in 2017. “I knew [about] Italy and some legal stuff and something that shouldn’t have happened. But I didn’t really know her story.”
Meanwhile, Knox told People, “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. And he would be a wonderful dad and we talk about it all the time.”
After all the marriage talk, Knox and Robinson tied the knot literally a week after they got engaged. Their marriage certificate, which surfaced on the internet, revealed that they applied for the certificate in Kings County, Washington, on 1 December, 2018. This prompted Knox and Robinson to release a joint statement on their sci-fi-themed wedding website.
“We filed paperwork to be legally married in December of last year to simplify our taxes and insurance. But we have not yet celebrated our wedding with our loved ones,” the press release read. “This is, frankly, no one’s business but our own and should be no more shocking than the fact that we’ve been living together for years.”
Knox and Robinson welcomed their daughter, Eureka Muse Knox-Robinson, in 2021 and their son, Echo Knox-Robinson, in September 2023. The family now lives in Seattle.
She has since returned to Italy
Knox spends her time raising awareness about wrongful conviction in the judicial system, and she has returned to Italy on multiple occasions. In 2019, she headed back to Europe as the keynote speaker at a criminal justice conference hosted by the Italy Innocence Project.
In 2023, she went back to Perugia to meet with the prosecutor in her initial court proceedings, Dr. Giuliano Mignini.
![modena, italy june 15: american journalist amanda knox delivers a speech during a panel session entitled trial by media during the first edition of the criminal justice festival, an event organised by the italy innocence project and the local association of barristers, on june 15, 2019 in modena, italy. the italy innocence project focuses on the issues relating to wrongful convictions and miscarriages of justice in italy. guest speaker amanda knox makes her first visit back to italy since she was wrongly convicted of murdering british student meredith kercher. knox spent four years in prison following her conviction for the murder of her flatmate in 2007 and was definitively acquitted by the italian supreme court of cassation. (photo by emanuele cremaschi/getty images)](https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/gettyimages-1156064856-689b1f9149633.jpg?resize=980:* "Amanda Knox Addresses The Italy Innocence Project"n")
Speaking to People magazine in 2025, Knox said of the meeting: "Forgiveness is a natural consequence of realising how fragile and precious another human is. I immediately sort of stepped into mom mode, and I was like, 'I'm not just forgiving you. I'm holding you. I care about you.' And that changed everything."
She also works as a journalist and podcaster
In 2019, Knox hosted the podcast titled The Truth About True Crime, where—as she puts it—“we attempt to rehumanise others who have been singled out as true-crime fodder and elevate the standard for how we think and talk about those whose lives are thrust into the judicial and media spotlight.”
She's also had her own series on Facebook Watch. In 2018, Knox hosted The Scarlet Letter Reports, which gave high-profile women who had faced the wrath of public judgement a chance to tell their side of the story.
Mehera Bonner is a celebrity and entertainment news writer who enjoys Bravo and Antiques Roadshow with equal enthusiasm, She was previously entertainment editor at Marie Claire and has covered pop culture for over a decade.
Kimberley Bond is a Multiplatform Writer for Harper’s Bazaar, focusing on the arts, culture, careers and lifestyle. She previously worked as a Features Writer for Cosmopolitan UK, and has bylines at The Telegraph, The Independent and British Vogue among countless others.
