Amanda Knox's Life After Prison Will Surprise You
Amanda Knox, July 2016. Photo courtesy of Geraldbostrum under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Even after more than a decade of freedom, Amanda Knox remains a symbol of one of the world's most controversial legal sagas. While the courtroom drama may be over, the ripple effects still shape her life — in public and private. So, where is she now? Let's unpack the story behind the headlines and find out.
Who Is Amanda Knox?
Amanda Knox was just 20 when she moved to Perugia, Italy, in 2007 to study abroad. Within weeks, she was thrust into the international spotlight when her British roommate, Meredith Kercher, was found murdered in their shared apartment. Knox, her then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, and a local man named Rudy Guede were arrested.
Guede's DNA was the only one found on Kercher's body. He was tried separately, convicted, and served 13 years before being released in 2021.
Still, Knox and Sollecito were also tried, convicted, and sentenced to more than two decades in prison — even though physical evidence didn't connect them to the crime scene.
Life After Prison
Knox spent four years in an Italian prison before her conviction was overturned in 2011. She returned to her hometown of Seattle and eventually completed her degree in creative writing at the University of Washington.
She later authored two books, including her 2013 memoir "Waiting to Be Heard" and her 2025 release "Free: My Search for Meaning."
She and her husband, author Christopher Robinson, launched a podcast in 2020 called "Labyrinths with Amanda Knox." The show explores the psychological and philosophical complexities of life's turning points — including Knox's own.
Family Life
Knox and Robinson married in 2018, hosting a space-themed celebration two years later.
The couple has two children: a daughter named Eureka, born in 2021, and a son, Echo, born in 2023. Knox has kept their identities private.
"She deserves the privacy and autonomy that I was denied," Knox said about her daughter on her podcast, according to PEOPLE.
The Lingering Slander Conviction
Knox was exonerated for Kercher's murder in 2015 by Italy's Supreme Court, which cited a lack of evidence and "stunning flaws" in the prosecution's case, according to PEOPLE.
However, one legal issue has followed her: a slander conviction for falsely implicating her former boss, Patrick Lumumba, during police interrogation. Knox maintains her statement was coerced during a 53-hour interrogation conducted without a lawyer or translator.
In June 2024, an appellate court in Florence upheld her slander conviction, and in January 2025, Italy's highest court confirmed the ruling.
"Italian justice system has been gaslighting me for 17 years now," Knox posted on X following the ruling, according to PEOPLE. She added, "rest assured: I'm headed back to the Court of Cassation to fight this."
Why She Keeps Going Back to Italy
Despite everything, Knox has returned to Italy multiple times. In 2019, she gave a keynote speech at a criminal justice conference in Modena hosted by the Italy Innocence Project.
She also returned in 2023 to meet Giuliano Mignini, the prosecutor from her case, and told PEOPLE she was able to forgive him, saying, "Forgiveness is a natural consequence of realizing how fragile and precious another human is," in a 2025 interview. "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."
Her Mission: Justice Reform
Knox now works as an advocate for wrongful conviction awareness and sits on the board of the Innocence Center, a nonprofit that helps free the wrongfully imprisoned.
She also produced and hosted "The Scarlet Letter Reports" on Facebook Watch in 2018, featuring women publicly shamed in the media.
She also participated in the Emmy-nominated 2016 Netflix documentary "Amanda Knox."
How She Talks to Her Kids About the Past
In a 2025 interview with "Good Morning America," Knox shared that her daughter has already asked about her time in Italy. Knox replied with age-appropriate honesty. According to PEOPLE, she told her daughter "the story of when mommy went to Italy, how someone hurt her friend and then they hurt mommy by putting her in prison and all of that."
She said her main message to her children is that painful experiences do not define you and they can be overcome.
Final Thoughts
Amanda Knox today is a mother, author, podcaster, advocate — and a woman still living in the shadow of a case that continues to stir public debate. But she's also someone carving out a life rooted in purpose, family, and truth — no longer trying to rewrite her past, but finding ways to move through it.
References: Where Is Amanda Knox Now? A Look at Her Life 10 Years After Exoneration — and What She's Told Her Young Kids About Her Time in Prison | Why Amanda Knox Returns to Italy — and How She Talks With Her Daughter About Injustice | Amanda Knox
