Kercher Family Condemns Amanda Knox Fringe Show as 9,500 Seek Cancellation
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Updated · CNN · Aug 6
Kercher Family Condemns Amanda Knox Fringe Show as 9,500 Seek Cancellation
3 articles · Updated · CNN · Aug 6
Summary
More than 9,500 people had signed a petition by Friday urging Edinburgh Fringe venue Gilded Balloon to cancel Amanda Knox’s 11-night solo show “Cartwheel,” which Meredith Kercher’s family says is hurtful and trivializes her 2007 murder.
Stephanie Kercher told CNN there is “nothing funny” about the killing, rejecting Knox’s claim that the show honors Meredith’s memory and instead turns a daily family trauma into entertainment.
Knox says the act uses comedy to address violence done to both women and her wrongful imprisonment; the title refers to allegations she did cartwheels at a police station after the murder.
Gilded Balloon said the Fringe is an open-access festival committed to freedom of expression within the law, while Knox’s broader media work has fueled criticism that she is profiting from the case.
Knox spent nearly four years in prison before her 2015 acquittal in Italy’s highest court, though she still has a slander conviction; Rudy Guede was separately convicted of Kercher’s murder and released in 2021.