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Knox, who spent four years in jail in Perugia,
Italy, before being acquitted of the 2007 murder of her
roommate, expressed her frustration as "Stillwater" opened in
U.S. movie theaters this week.
Director Tom McCarthy has said the Amanda Knox case inspired the
film about an American oil rig worker who travels to France to
help his daughter who is in prison for a murder she says she
didn't commit.
"Does my name belong to me? My face? What about my life? My
story? Why does my name refer to events I had no hand in? I
return to these questions because others continue to profit off
my name, face, & story without my consent. Most recently, the
film #STILLWATER," Knox wrote in a lengthy post on her Twitter
account on Thursday.
The Stillwater filmmakers did not immediately respond to a
request for comment.
Knox, now 34 and working as a criminal justice activist, said
that the movie "reinforces an image of me as a guilty and
untrustworthy person."
"I have not been allowed to return to the relative anonymity I
had before Perugia," Knox said. "My only option is to sit idly
by while others continue to distort my character, or fight to
restore my good reputation that was wrongfully destroyed."
She invited McCarthy and Damon to hear her point of view by
appearing on her "Labyrinths" podcast, which deals with issues
ranging from justice to her personal life.
Rudy Guede, a local man, was found guilty of the murder in
Perugia and was sentenced to 16 years in prison.
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant, Editing by Nick Zieminski)
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