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After news broke that Amanda Knox landed a book deal for “close to $4 million,” we caught up with journalist Andrew Gumbel–the co-writer working on a memoir with Raffaele Sollecito, Knox’s Italian boyfriend.
Like Knox, Sollecito was charged with the 2007 death of Meredith Kercher in Perguia, Italy, but the conviction was overturned. Last year, Sollecito signed with Sharlene Martin at Martin Literary Management.
Our interview with Gumbel...
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To recap - Amanda Knox and her boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito served four years in an Italian prison after being sentenced for the murder of Amanda's roommate Meredith Kercher.
Back in December, an Italian appeals court made the disturbing announcement that Amanda and Raffaele's murder convictions had been overturned because there was never "any reliable evidence" to [...]
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- Amanda Knox Gets A Book Deal (perezhilton.com)
- Italy prosecutors appeal overturning of Knox conviction (news.ask.com)
Agreed wholeheartedly. No one wants their own culture stereotyped, yet everyone seems to do it. And to your point, reading about a country or spending a semester abroad is kind of a cultural snapshot. Sometimes people assume that studying abroad for a few months in their twenties provides an accurate or nuanced understanding of a country - often the opposite is true. Study abroad is fantastic but it's also a very narrow (short time period...
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Prosecutors in Italy lodged an appeal Tuesday of the acquittal of American student Amanda Knox in the murder of British student Meredith Kercher. Knox and her ex-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, were convicted of murder in the town of Perugia in ...
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Amanda Knox will appeal her slander conviction in Italy. Knox's attorney has filed the appropriate documents abroad. What many may not realize is that slander in Italy is often prosecuted as a crime. Knox currently resides in Seattle. She spent several years abroad -- and in an Italian jail cell......
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"Even taken all together," the prosecution's evidence does not "prove in any way the guilt of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito for the crime" of killing Kercher, Judge Claudio Pratillo Hellman wrote, according to CNN. Knox and Sollecito were ...
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Prosecutor Giovanni Galati said he is "very convinced" that Sollecito and Knox were responsible for the Nov. 1, 2007, stabbing death of Meredith Kercher, a 21-year-old British student who shared an apartment with Knox in Perugia. Kercher was ...
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- Hicks: Amanda Knox gets $4 million book deal (api.bing.com)
The memoir was considered a hot property because the world has yet to hear all the details from Knox , who was found guilty in 2009 of murdering her 21-year-old British housemate, Meredith Kercher, and spent four years in prison. An Italian court in ...
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- Amanda Knox signs book deal with HarperCollins (news.google.co.uk)
- Amanda Knox signs book deal with Harper Collins (api.bing.com)
- Amanda Knox memoirs spark million-dollar bidding war (guardian.co.uk)
Amanda Knox will write a memoir for HarperCollins. According to the New York Times‘ sources, the deal was “for close $4 million.”
The Seattle student was charged in the 2007 death of her former roommate Meredith Kercher while studying abroad in Italy, but was exonerated by the Italian court system last year.
The AP had a statement from HarperCollins: “Aided by journals she kept during her imprisonment, Knox will talk about her harrowing...
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Amanda Knox, who was freed last year from an Italian jail after being imprisoned for four years on murder charges, has signed a book deal with HarperCollins that will pay her close to $4 million, EW.com reports.Knox, 24, was cleared four months ago of charges that she killed her roommate, Meredith Kercher. Prosecutors in Italy continue to push to keep the case alive, but Knox has since returned home to the U.S. and most observers consider it...
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Raffaele Sollecito is the Italian boyfriend of Amanda Knox. Knox is accused of killing her roommate, Meredith Kercher. Allegedly, Meredith Kercher refused to take part in an orgy with Raffaele and Amanda - so Amanda stabbed her with a pocket knife.
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