Amanda Knox claims that massive public attention to GhislaineMaxwell was partly due to the ‘opportunity of vilifying a women for sex crime’.

Maxwell (60) was found guilty of helping Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse minors. She was sentenced on December 29, 2021. Maxwell faces 65 years imprisonment, which means she will spend her entire life behind bars. 

Ms. Knox was wrongly found guilty of 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher (a British student who was just 21).

Maxwell is the next best person to make Jeffrey Epstein accountable, according to her. 

Amanda Knox, 34, (pictured) has said massive public interest in Ghislaine Maxwell is partly because of an 'opportunity to vilify a woman for sex crimes'

Amanda Knox, 34 (pictured), said that the massive public interest expressed in GhislaineMaxwell’s case is partially due to an “opportunity” to denigrate a woman for her sex crimes.

“Maxwell is clearly guilty of these horrible crimes, and she should be held responsible for them.” However, it is important to remember that society should not be enamored with the cases of others.

“The only reason that we were really interested in this case was to be able to make fun of a woman who has committed sex crime.”

In media coverage about her case she claimed that it was used tropes that relied upon cult imagery. 

Maxwell, 60, could spend the rest of her life in prison after she was convicted last month on helping her partner Jeffrey Epstein abuse minors

Maxwell (60) could be spending the rest of her lives in prison following her conviction last month for helping Jeffrey Epstein to abuse minors.

Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell sits as the guilty verdict in her sex abuse trial is read in a courtroom sketch in New York City

Jeffrey Epstein Associate Ghislaine Maxiwell watches as her guilty verdict in the sex abuse case against her is read out in New York City’s courtroom sketches 

Court Evidence photos of Ghislaine Maxwell with Jeffrey Epstein as she gave him a foot massage

Court Evidence Photos of Ghislaine Maxiwell giving Jeffrey Epstein a foot massage 

She stated that the crime occurred so close to Halloween and there was an element of dependence upon cult imagery or cult ideas. 

“There was a vilification against sex. It’s in a sense the oldest and most fantastical story. 

“And the shocking thing about it all, which has been surprising to me since I was going through it, is that people were more concerned about this story than about the truth. 

Meredith Kercher, 21, from Coulsdon, near London

She was murdered in Perugia while taking part in a study abroad scheme as a student in 2007

Meredith Kercher (21 years old), was a student at a study abroad program in Perugia.

Knox being escorted into court on September 26, 2008

Knox is escorted to court September 26th, 2008.

Knox and Sollecito both spent four years in prison after their convictions. Knox was also convicted of defamation for wrongly accusing Patrick Lumumba, a bar owner, of the murder. Pictured: Knox and Sollecito in 2007

Both Knox and Sollecito spent four years behind bars after being convicted. Knox was also found guilty of defamation after wrongly accusing Patrick Lumumba (a bar owner) of the murder. Knox and Sollecito in 2007.

It wasn’t that we knew who was responsible for this terrible crime. We had ample evidence to prove Rudy Guede. 

“And yet, the story of the violent, lustful woman who killed the pure, virtuous girl captured people’s interest and they couldn’t stop looking at it.

Ms. Knox stated that at the time of her murder, she was told she felt ‘crazy by’ the Italian police.

She stated, “They made it feel like I was crazy.” 

“They said that they had told me I had amnesia and that I’d witnessed the crime. If I couldn’t recall it right there and then, I wouldn’t be able to visit my family and would have to spend 30 years in prison. 

“That experience was by far the most difficult of all the whole thing. Going through the interrogation, and feeling like an idiot was just the beginning. Signing statements that weren’t true.

While she was in prison, she stated that she considered taking her own death.

Amanda Knox in a recent photo from her Twitter account

Knox has always insisted that she was innocent of Kercher's murder

Amanda Knox’s recent social media posts. Knox is cohost of the podcast Labyrinths along with Christopher Robinson, her novelist husband. They ‘delve into stories that get lost and found again through compassionate interview, philosophical rants as well as playful debate with fascinating individuals’

Meredith Kercher's killer Rudy Guede (pictured waving from the window of a volunteer centre in 2016, file photo) has ben formally released from prison, 14 years after the grisly murder

 Meredith Kercher’s killer Rudy Guede (pictured waving from the window of a volunteer centre in 2016, file photo) has ben formally released from prison, 14 years after the grisly murder

“I felt as if my whole life was being taken from me,” she said. It felt as if I had been taken from my life.

“The only way out is through your own eyes. Although I had a lot of ideas about what I could do, at the end it was just me having a discussion with myself about the worthiness of my life. 

It was a feeling that they took from me so much, and I felt they wouldn’t let me go.

“I was determined to win. It was worth my life. It was worth losing my identity. Even if I had to write my mom a letter that day, it was enough to maintain my identity and keep my sense of self. 

What was the Meredith Kercher case? 

The case of Meredith Kercher, 21, a British university student who was murdered in Perugia, Italy in November 2007, drew huge media attention.

Much of it centred on her housemate Amanda Knox, who was 20 at the time.

Knox, her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Solecito were first convicted in Kercher’s murder. They were then acquitted and convicted again in 2009.

Rudy Guede (born in Ivory Coast but raised in Italy since a very young age) was tried separately and convicted of the murder of Ms Kercher in 2008.   

Guede was released in 2021 after serving the rest of his 16 year sentence in prison. He will now be doing community service to charities in Viterbo in central Italy.

Kercher was from Coulsdon in Surrey and was murdered two months after he moved to Italy for an exchange program at Perugia’s highly regarded university.

After Knox, her flatmate, allegedly noticed blood in her apartment and saw a cracked window and was concerned about her body, her partially unrecovered body was discovered on her bedroom floor. 

Kercher had suffered multiple stabbings and was sexually assaulted.  

Guede’s fingerprints and a bloody palm print were discovered at the scene. 

Although he admitted that he was at the apartment, he has never denied sexually or physically assaulting Kercher. 

After finding his wife dead, he said that he was in a state of shock.

Guede fled the scene of the murder by taking a train to Germany, where he was later arrested.  

The charges against him included murder and sexual assault. He received a sentence of 30-years imprisonment, but it was reduced to 16-years by an appeals court. 

Both Knox and Sollecito spent four years behind bars after being convicted. Knox was also found guilty of defamation after wrongly accusing Patrick Lumumba (a bar owner) of the crime. 

Lumumba spent 2 weeks in jail and was only released after someone presented an alibi. 

Knox and Sollecito were cleared in 2011, but they were again convicted by the Florentine appeals courts in 2014. 

Appeal court found that Kercher was not injured by Guede. 

The Italian Supreme Court overturned that decision in 2015. It stated in its final ruling that Knox’s and Sollecitos convictions resulted from’stunning faults’ during the investigation.