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    Smile Amanda Knox: Who owns my name?...

    Who owns my name?...

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    Does my name belong to me? Does my face? What about my life? My story? Why is my name used to refer to events I had no hand in? I return to these questions because others continue to profit off my name, face, and story without my consent. Most recently, the film Stillwater.

    This new film by director Tom McCarthy, starring Matt Damon, is “loosely based” or “directly inspired by” the “Amanda Knox saga,” as Vanity Fair put it in a for-profit article promoting a for-profit film, neither of which I am affiliated with. I want to pause right here on that phrase: “the Amanda Knox saga.” What does that refer to? Does it refer to anything I did? No. It refers to the events that resulted from the murder of Meredith Kercher by a burglar named Rudy Guede. It refers to the shoddy police work, prosecutorial tunnel vision, and refusal to admit their mistakes that led the Italian authorities to wrongfully convict me, twice.

    In those four years of wrongful imprisonment and 8 years of trial, I had near-zero agency. Everyone else in that “saga” had more influence over the course of events than I did. The erroneous focus on me by the Italian authorities led to an erroneous focus on me by the press, which shaped how I was presented to the world. In prison, I had no control over my public image, no voice in my story.

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    That's Hollywood for ya

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    I remember arguing in favor of her innocence (which was painfully obvious) while this was all happening. Was astonished at the wide variety of weirdos who seemed exhilarated by the thought of her imprisonment. And it made no difference how much evidence you produced showing she was innocent, they just kept insisting that she was a murderer.
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    It figures a jerk like Matt Damon would be involved in the exploitation of another's life story.


    Is he currently being Cancelled Cultured or Forgiven?

    Matt Damon credits his daughter for ending his use of the 'f-slur' - CNN

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    Is her name what you really want to own?

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