Amanda Knox

Amanda Marie Knox is an American activist and author. She came to international prominence after being falsely accused and imprisoned for the November 2007 murder of her roommate, Meredith Kercher, in Perugia, Italy. She was convicted of the murder in 2009 and was sentenced to 26 years in prison. In 2011, the conviction was overturned and she was released, whereupon she returned to America. The guilty verdict was restored upon a prosecutor's appeal in 2014, before she was completely acquitted of murder by the Italian Supreme Court of Cassation in 2015.