Amanda Knox reveals lesbian proposition by prison inmate as she claims women’s jail ‘brings out the horny teenage boy in many of us’
AMANDA Knox has opened up about lesbian relationships in prison — and revealed how a female drug dealer tried to seduce her by promising: "I can do things to you that no man can."
She said she formed a close friendship with another inmate in Italy — but she cooled it off after the woman kissed her and said she could "turn" her gay.
Amanda — dubbed Foxy Knoxy — spent four years behind bars for the murder of Brit exchange student Meredith Kercher before her conviction was overturned.
Now she has written an account of her experience in Capanne jail called "What romance in prison actually looks like", .
Knox said the idea of women's prisons "brings out the horny teenage boy in many of us" as people are titillated by lesbianism.
The freelance writer, now 29, said she witnessed many straight inmates becoming "gay for the stay".
She said: "There were tearful breakups, and sometimes fistfights between new partners and exes.
"But for all the couples who acted like teenagers, there were as many as unshakably self-contained as if they had been married for 20 years.
"Many of these women will have identified as heterosexual — colloquially, they were 'gay for the stay'."
Knox also revealed how a drug dealer she called Leny - not her real name - became close to her as they jogged round the yard, listened to CDs and played chess.
She said: "At least initially, Leny might not have been trying to seduce me, and was actually just in need of someone kind to distract her from her loneliness."
But Leny's unwanted sexual advances meant she had to end the friendship, she said.
Knox wrote: "Leny wanted to hold hands. 'I've changed women before,' she'd tell me. 'I can do things to you that no man can.'
"I felt objectified and I'd get annoyed. 'You can't change me,' I'd respond. She'd think I was playing hard to get.
"One day, Leny kissed me. I gritted my teeth and half-smiled, wavering between embarrassment and anger."
She said she was "relieved" when Leny was released and did not reply to her letters.
Last week we told how Knox — the subject of a high-profile Netflix documentary last year — says people are now flocking to apologise to her after she was finally cleared of the notorious murder.
After her 2011 acquittal she was re-convicted at a second trial before being cleared again at another final appeal.
She reckons the film prompted those who were convinced of her guilt to change their minds in droves.
Speaking on the Wrongful Conviction podcast, she said: "People were saying sorry to me for jumping to conclusions about me, and I never expected that to happen.
"I’d come to peace with the idea that unless you met me, you probably hated me.”
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Knox and then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were convicted of stabbing 21-year-old Brit student Kercher to death at a flat in Perugia, Italy, in 2007.
Rudy Guede was convicted of the murder in 2008 and remains behind bars.
Knox and Sollecito were found guilty in 2009, but freed on appeal two years later.
Their guilty verdict was reinstated in 2014 but quashed by Italy’s top court in March 2015.
Knox says she was told to change her name many times because of her notoriety.
She said: "People told me all the time, ‘You should just change your name so you don’t have to deal with it.'
“But it’s like, you know what, no. There’s nothing wrong with being Amanda Knox.
"Amanda Knox didn’t do anything. I’m a good person.”
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