One-time murder accused Amanda Knox gets celeb treatment
Amanda Knox who was wrongfully convicted over the 2007 murder of her British flatmate, appears to be enjoying some celebrity treatment.
Italy's highest court quashed Knox's conviction over the killing of student Meredith Kercher, bringing a sensational end to an eight-year legal drama that had gripped a global audience.
The 27-year-old, who served four years in prison before being freed on appeal in 2011, appears to be making the most of her restored reputation.
TMZ reports the one-time accused murderer was greeted by a cheering crowd as she arrived at a karaoke bar in New York.
Knox took to the stage to belt out a bizarre and rather grim choice of song, the Cranberries hit 'Zombie'.
An amazing night for @innocence where over a dozen exonerees were present including the brave & wonderful Amanda Knox pic.twitter.com/9tD0P5ifCf
— John Mulaney (@mulaney) May 13, 2015
Earlier that evening, Knox attended the Innocence Project Gala at the Grand Hyatt Hotel nearby.
Award winning comedian John Mulaney posed for a picture with Knox, describing the former murder accused as a wonderful and brave person.
Knox and her former lover were cleared of Kercher's murder in March of this year.
"The knowledge of my innocence has given me strength in the darkest times of this ordeal," Knox said after the ruling.
Kercher, 21, died after being stabbed 47 times and having her throat slashed.
Her half-naked body was found in a pool of blood in a back room of the house she shared with Knox.
Ivory Coast-born drifter Rudy Guede was jailed for the murder in 2008 but, in a judgment that was to have serious implications for Knox and Sollecito, the judge in his trial ruled that he could not have acted alone.
Prosecutors maintained to the end that Knox and Sollecito fatally slashed Kercher while Guede held her down.
Knox and Sollecito were first convicted in 2009, then acquitted in 2011, when they believed they had been freed to resume their normal lives.
But that decision was found to be flawed by the Court of Cassation in 2013, leading to a retrial in Florence which reinstated the initial convictions last year and increased Knox's sentence to 28 years and six months.
