Amanda Knox Slams New Criticism After Intimate Diary Entry from Prison Resurfaces Online

Amanda Knox is speaking out after a personal diary entry she wrote while imprisoned in Italy at age 20 resurfaced online — nearly two decades after it was first leaked without her consent.

Now 37, Knox addressed the renewed attention in a post on X (formerly Twitter), after a photo of the handwritten entry — which lists her past physical partners — began circulating again on social media.

“Yes, I slept with 7 people by age 20. (3 were serious boyfriends; 1 was Raffaele),” Knox wrote. “This was made public after police lied to me that I had HIV, then told me to write a list of my partners, then confiscated my diary and leaked it to the media.”

The entry dates back to 2007, when Knox was in custody following the murder of British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy. Knox has said she was misled and coerced by police during interrogations — including being told she was HIV-positive, which prompted her to document her physical history.

The resurfaced page names seven men, including her then-boyfriend and co-defendant Raffaele Sollecito. It also reveals her emotional turmoil at the time:

“I had a raging headache because this is by far the worst experience of my life. I’m in prison for a crime I didn’t commit, I might have HIV… I don’t want to die. I want to get married and have children… I can’t believe this.”

The intimate details of the diary were initially leaked during intense media coverage of Knox’s trial — a case that drew global headlines. Though she was convicted and later acquitted multiple times, Italy’s highest court definitively exonerated both Knox and Sollecito in 2015.

Now an author and advocate, Knox condemned the latest wave of attention as invasive and damaging.

“It’s so outdated, so dumb, and so frustrating to still be dealing with this,” she said in a follow-up post.

Knox has frequently spoken about the media’s role in shaping public opinion during her trial, and the lasting impact it’s had on her life. She continues to advocate for criminal justice reform and media accountability.