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Yahoo
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Amanda Knox Claps Back on Leaked Diary About Sex With 7 Past Partners
Originally appeared on E! Online Amanda Knox isn't ashamed of her past romances. The 38-year-old had a thought-provoking response to recent criticism over a past diary entry in which she admitted to having sex with seven partners by the age of 20—a private confession that was leaked to the public by Italian police after she and then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were first accused of her roommate Meredith Kercher's murder in 2007. In the old journal entry shared to X July 15, Knox—who was in the midst of being interrogated by authorities over Kercher's killing at the time—listed everyone she had been intimate with after being wrongly informed by police that she had contracted HIV. "I don't know where I could have gotten HIV from," she wrote. "Here is the list of people I've had sex with in general." Now, looking back at her diary, Knox wrote on X July 15, "After years of being vilified as a deviant sex monster, I couldn't help but internalize some of that shame, despite the fact that I knew there was nothing wrong with my sexuality (which was actually quite vanilla)." More from E! Online Dan Rivera, Paranormal Investigator, Dies Suddenly During Tour With 'Possessed' Annabelle Doll Kylie Jenner Shares a Glimpse of Daughter Stormi's Massive Labubu Collection RHONJ's Dolores Catania Shares Important Warning About Injectable Weight Loss Drugs But one user disagreed with her summation, sarcastically writing in response to her tweet, "Sleeping with 7 guys before the age of 19 is like so vanilla." And Knox was quick to clap back at the jab, reminding her troll why she wrote the diary entry in the first place. Yes, I slept with 7 people by age 20. (3 were serious boyfriends; 1 was Raffaele.) This was made public after police lied to me that I had HIV, then told me to write a list of my partners, then confiscated my diary and leaked it to the media. "I don't want to die," I wrote. Amanda Knox (@amandaknox) July 15, 2025 "Yes, I slept with 7 people by age 20. (3 were serious boyfriends; 1 was Raffaele.)," she replied in a second message on X July 15. "This was made public after police lied to me that I had HIV, then told me to write a list of my partners, then confiscated my diary and leaked it to the media. 'I don't want to die,' I wrote." Knox and Sollecito were convicted of Kercher's murder in 2009, before being acquitted and retried in a 2011 proceeding that she was also convicted in. The pair maintained their innocence throughout their incarceration, and were exonerated of all charges by Italy's highest court in 2015 after deeming the evidence contradictory and the investigation flawed from the start. In 2019, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Knox's original interrogation by police violated her human rights and ordered the Italian legal system should pay her $20,000. While testifying in front of the European Court of Human Rights, Knox—whose complicated case has since been documented in the 2016 Netflix movie Amanda Knox—provided further insight into why the police interrogation was her "worst nightmare" while being questioned in a language she "barely knew." "When I couldn't remember the details, one of the officers gave me a little smack on the head and shouted, 'remember, remember,'" Knox—who is a mother to two children with husband Christopher Robinson—said in court in 2019, per NBC News. "And then I put together a jumble of memories and the police made me sign a statement. I was forced to submit. It had been a violation of my rights." (E! and NBC News are both part of the NBCUniversal family.) For more true crime cases that have made it to TV screens, keep reading. For the latest breaking news updates, click here to download the E! News App
CNN
5 days ago
- CNN
Man convicted of Meredith Kercher's murder facing trial for sexual assault
Rudy Guede, the only person definitively convicted of the brutal 2007 murder of British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy, will be back in court this fall facing charges of sexual assault and violence against a former girlfriend. Guede, a 38-year-old Ivory Coast native who has lived in Italy since the age of five, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for Kercher's murder in October 2008. His sentence was reduced on appeal before he was released early for good behavior in 2021. The case sparked a media frenzy, spawning more than two dozen books and three films. More than 100,000 photos, thousands of chats and audio messages between Guede and the unnamed victim are among the evidence to be considered in the trial, according to the investigating magistrate Rita Cialoni, who ordered Guede to stand trial in a preliminary hearing in Viterbo on Friday. The two began dating while Guede was still in prison and ended their relationship in 2023 when the woman pressed charges against him, according to Italian media. American student Amanda Knox, who was Kercher's roommate at the time she was killed, and Knox's then-boyfriend Italian Raffaele Sollecito, were convicted in tandem for their alleged role in Kercher's murder in 2009, but were fully exonerated by Italy's Supreme Court in 2015 following a topsy-turvy legal battle. Knox, remains convicted of slander for accusing her former nightclub boss Patrick Lumumba of Kercher's murder in 2007. Guede's new indictment and trial stems from 2023 accusations of sexual assault, mistreatment and stalking, by a 25-year-old woman Guede dated from Viterbo, where Guede worked first on work release from prison and then after his release. His first hearing will be held November 4 in Viterbo. His lawyer Carlo Mezzetti told CNN his client was innocent and feared he would not get a fair trial given his previous conviction.
