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Legally Brunette

Legally Brunette: The Amanda Knox Interview

Legally Brunette

iHeartPodcasts

True Crime

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Emily and Shane are sitting down with Amanda Knox to discuss the realities of wrongful convictions, false confessions and media scrutiny.

They dive into the new Hulu series “The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox” and her partnership with Monica Lewinsky for this project.

Plus, what does Amanda think about the prosecutor who incriminated her? Who would she like an apology from the most? Does she still feel the weight of this crime today?

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0:00.0

Hi guys, welcome to another episode of Legally Brunette. I will be your hostess today, Emily Simpson with my co-host.

0:07.3

Jane. And I have to say I am so, so super excited because I am sitting here next to Amanda Knox.

0:14.8

And I have to tell you, I don't get Starstruck very often, like, at all. I've been on reality TV for years and years,

0:23.4

but sitting across from you is such a full circle moment. First of all, yeah. Well, I graduated from

0:29.5

law school in 2005, and then everything that happened with you was in 2007. So I followed it.

0:35.9

You were newly aware. I was an attorney, so I was following it. And then I'd say maybe, I don't know, how long ago, maybe like six or seven years ago, I went to L.A. and I saw you speak. Might have been, yeah, it might have been about 10 years ago. Yeah, I'm not sure. What was the context? I don't remember exactly, but it was for MCLE credit. And you were speaking somewhere in L.A. and I went. And I just, and I found you so

0:59.1

compelling and interesting. And I didn't get the opportunity to meet you. And this was prior

1:04.7

to doing a podcast and all these things. So having you sitting next to me, I feel like it's

1:09.0

just like this, like it was meant to be. Like it's a full circle moment. Patience is a virtue. Yes, I've been waiting for her. Amanda Knox is here. It was the goal of this podcast as you started. It was to get you on. Now I'm done. I'll have to do any more episodes. I'm finished. All right, well, let's just do a little background on you for our viewers or for our listeners. Amanda Knox is an American author,

1:28.9

journalist, and public speaker who was wrongfully convicted of murdering her roommate, Meredith Kircher, while studying abroad in Italy back in 2007.

1:37.8

Amanda spent nearly four years in prison before Italy's highest court exonerated her back in 2015.

1:44.7

Since her release, Amanda has become an advocate for criminal justice reform and media ethics.

1:50.7

Most recently, and this is important, guys, because if you haven't watched this yet,

1:54.2

Amanda teamed up with Monica Lewinsky to produce Hulu's The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox.

1:59.7

And I will have to tell you, I've watched all of it except for the finale episode.

2:03.1

It is amazing.

2:04.7

Like, it is truly so well done.

2:07.9

Yeah, it's really good.

2:09.0

I have watched, we were talking about prior to recording this, but we were having a

2:14.4

conversation where I said, I've watched every documentary about you

2:17.6

that's out there. And I feel like I get pieces here and there. And I learn a little bit more

2:23.6

when I watch this documentary or I'll see something else. And I'm like, oh, I didn't know that. And I

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