KNOX’S TV DRAMA
Amanda’s series on wrongful murder rap in Meredith case to be backed by Lewinsky
AMANDA Knox is set to work on a TV drama about her wrongful conviction for murdering British student Meredith Kercher.
It will be produced by Bill Clinton’s ex-lover Monica Lewinsky and reportedly financed and streamed by Disney-owned service Hulu.
Knox, 36, will act as executive producer on the untitled drama.
US website Deadline reported that the series has been on “priority track development” at Hulu for some time.
A search is under way for an actress to play the American.
Monica, who, like Knox, is known for her activism, spoke of the programme last year when discussing a campaign targeting bullying.
She said: “I wish it were announced already but I’m executive producing a limited series that’s on another young woman who found her life decimated and ripped apart on the world stage but she somehow managed to survive.
“It’s going to be really powerful.”
Monica, 50, gained notoriety at the age of 22 when she worked as a
White House intern and had an affair with then-us president Clinton.
But she took control of her story by serving as a producer on the 2016 series Impeachment: American
Crime Story, which also appeared on Hulu. It is understood that she and Knox have developed a close bond through their shared experiences.
Knox was studying in Perugia, Italy, when she was accused of helping then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito kill room-mate and Leeds student Meredith, 21, in a supposed sex game gone wrong in 2007.
The pair were convicted of murder and spent nearly four years in jail.
However they were freed and later exonerated in 2015, after new evidence placed drifter and known burglar Rudy Guede at the scene.
He served 13 years of a 16-year sentence for murder and sexual assault before being released into community service in 2021.