Amanda Knox: From Murder Suspect to Comedian

0:00It's May 3rd. This is Edinburgh News today, powered by AI. Amanda Knox, the American who spent years fighting a murder conviction in Italy, is jumping into stand-up comedy at the Edinburgh Fringe this August. She's booked for a show at the Gilder Balloon Teviat venue, marking her debut on that big stage. Back in 2007, Knox was accused of killing her British roommate, 21-year-old Meredith Kircher, in Peruzia, a case that grabbed headlines worldwide. Knox got into comedy last year, opening for Nikki Glazer in Seattle to a crowd of 3,000. She compared herself to that viral dress debate, white and gold, or blue and black, and quip she'd take heckling over handcuffs any day. She's also got a podcast called Hard Knox in starred in Docs, like one where she faced her old prosecutor back in Italy. The news hit a nerve with folks close to Kircher's family. Their lawyer, Francesco Marresca, slammed the gig as an offensive slap to Meredith's memory, calling it straight up deplorable.

1:00That raw pain from the 2007 stabbing and assault still lingers for them. Knox was convicted with her then-boyfriend in 2009, got 26 years, but courts flipped it in 2011, then retried, and fully cleared her in 2015. Rudy Gada, another guy, took the fall for the murder back in 2008 and stays locked up. Now 38, married with two kids, Knox says comedy connects her to people like nothing else. The venue hasn't weighed in yet, but this French spot's already got everyone talking about second chances versus old wounds.