Amanda Knox launches crowdfunding appeal to finance wedding
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Amanda Knox and her fiancé Christopher Robinson have launched a crowdfunding appeal to fund their wedding saying they spent all their money on a recent trip to Italy to campaign against miscarriages of justice.
Several people have expressed their opposition to Knox and Robinson’s registry, describing it as “shameless”.
Knox has hit back at the criticism she’s received, stating that those who have aired their disapproving views have been “duped by the outrage machine”.
To those hating on us all day, you've been duped by the outrage machine. You gave ad $ to tabloids that profit by making you angry about things that don't matter. Our wedding will be crazy & fun & barebones if it needs to be, but in the grand scheme of things, it doesn't matter.
Knox, 32, who was first convicted and later acquitted of murdering British housemate Meredith Kercher in Perugia in 2007, said “we didn’t expect to organise the wedding and (my) first return trip to Italy at the same time.
“But when the Italy Innocence Project invited (me) we couldn’t let the opportunity get away and we spent our wedding funds on this trip”.
On their web funding page the couple are asking for up to $10,000 to organise “the best ever party for our family and friends”.
Amanda Knox (L) with her boyfriend Christopher Robinson (R) attend the conference of the Criminal Justice Festival at the University of Modena, Italy, on 14 June 2019. Photo :EPA-EFE/Elisabetta Baracchi
Those who donate towards the registry can choose to gift the couple between $25 (£20) and $10,000 (£8,036), in exchange for gifts including shout-outs on the dance floor or, for the most generous donors, a video message “from the future”.
Knox spent almost four years in an Italian prison following her conviction for Kercher’s murder. In 2015 she was definitively acquitted by the Italian Supreme Court of Cassation.
