Amanda Knox Signs With Heavyweight Literary Agent
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Amanda Knox has signed with a literary agent who has brokered book deals for President Barack Obama, Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton, among others.
TMZ reported Monday that Knox -- who was freed from an Italian prison in October after a court overturned her murder conviction because of unreliable DNA evidence -- will be represented by Washington-based lawyer and literary agent Robert Barnett as she shops a book about her story.
Knox, 24, was convicted in December 2009 of the murder of her British roommate Meredith Kercher in Italy.
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She spent four years in an Italian prison before she was acquitted when forensic experts disputed some of the DNA evidence used to convict Knox and co-defendant Raffaele Sollecito, her Italian boyfriend.
Sollecito, who was also cleared of the murder, has signed with literary agent Sharlene Martin for a book of his own, sources told TMZ.