Amanda Knox Update: Italian Boyfriend Says 'It’s All Over'
On a recent Italian television interview, Amanda Knox’s Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito claimed he severed romantic ties from his American lover.
“It’s all over between us,” Sollecito said on the Italian Talk Show “Quarto Grado.”
“She has suffered like me and now I just want her to be happiest woman in the world,” he added.
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Recent rumors indicate Knox is dating James Terrano, a classical guitarist.
This news comes just two weeks after Raffaele told the Italian Weekly Oggi he and Knox were deeply committed to each other.
“We need each other – we speak to each other on the phone and write to each other every day,” Sollecito told the magazine.
Although Amanda Knox continues to avoid the public eye after her return to America, paparazzi have spotted her hanging out with friends and shopping multiple times around her hometown of Seattle since she disembarked by plane Oct. 4 – just one day after she was acquitted in Perugia, Italy.
Sollecito also told Oggi magazine he would visit Knox in Seattle, possibly earlier than Christmas.
“I could go at any moment. I really want to see her again, to speak with her and look into her eyes,” he said.
At his televised “Quarto Grado” interview, Sollecito changed his tune and said he will most likely not be spending the holidays in Seattle.
'Yes, I have been asked to go and see her in America but I don't know when I will go - for the time being I just want to build up my life as it was before and it will have to be piece by piece,” he said.
The public chastised Knox and Sollecito after paparazzi snapped photos of the two kissing and smiling one day after Kercher was killed.
Italian persecution casted Knox and Sollecito as sex-craved deviants who forced Kercher to participate in an orgy against her will.
Knox and Sollecito both won their appeals of the 2007 murder of Kercher, who was found in her Perugia flat with signs of sexual abuse and stab wounds on her body and neck.
Knox originally received 26 years in Italian prison, while Sollecito received 25 years.
Knox spent four years in Italian prison awaiting her verdict, and must pay $54,000 to Congolese bar owner Patrick Lumumba for defaming his name in court, telling the jury he was Kercher’s killer.
Rudy Guede of the Ivory Coast is currently serving 16 years for Kercher’s murder after his DNA was found on the victim’s body.
