Amanda Knox got secretly hitched months before she and her hubby set up a website to solicit as much as $2,000 in donations toward their wedding, according to a new report.
The couple made a marriage application on Nov. 21 and tied the knot on Dec. 7, according to The Telegraph, which cited records from King County, Washington.
Knox and Christopher Robinson released a statement, obtained by the outlet, responding to claims they misled friends, family and supporters.
“We filed paperwork to be legally married in December of last year to simplify our taxes and insurance,” the couple wrote. “But we have not yet celebrated our wedding with our loved ones.”
Knox, 32, who spent four years in an Italian prison for the 2007 murder of her roommate before she was ultimately acquitted, and Robinson created a website linked to a publicly accessible registry for their intergalactic-themed wedding. The page gives visitors the option to donate up to $2,000 each.
On the page, the couple explains that instead of a traditional registry, they are accepting donations toward the cost of putting on the spectacular event.
“Let’s face it, we don’t need any more stuff,” the page says. “So please, no gifts, and no pressure. But if you feel so inclined, we welcome help putting on the best party ever for our family and friends!”
Donors would receive a signed, limited-edition copy of the couple’s joint book of love poems called “The Cardio Tesseract.”
As part of the space-age theme, donors can expect “vikings drinking pan-galactic gargle blasters, mutants schmoozing with Grecian queens and cyborgs,” the registry says.
They can also count on finding “outrageous costumes, crazier puzzles, mind-bending sets, and extravagant alien food.”
The pair last week shot down claims that they were crowdfunding the fancy affair.
“Our wedding registry was never meant to be a crowdfunding source,” Knox told ABC. “It was meant for our family and friends and any well-wishers that I have.”
In the Thursday statement, the couple acknowledged that the Italy Innocence Project provided financial assistance so they could attend an event organized by the non-profit in Modena, Italy.
But they still shelled out $10,000 on additional safety precautions and for Knox mother’s travel expenses, they said.
“The trip was a financial setback for us and we were forced to use funds we’d been saving for our wedding to make it happen,” they added.
Knox even took to Twitter Thursday to blast the media for overblowing the fact that the pair is already legally married.
“The tabloids think it’s a “scoop” that @manunderbridge & I filed legal paperwork in December,” she wrote. “Guess what? We’ve also been living together out of wedlock for 3 years. Go back to the 1300s; our wedding remains in the future–leap day, 2020.”
“It’s absurd that we have to denounce tabloid slander claiming our wedding is a scam to defraud people, but this is the same media that profited by falsely calling me a killer for years,” she added.
Knox was studying abroad in Perugia, Italy, when she was accused of helping then-beau Raffaele Sollecito kill her British roommate, Meredith Kercher, in a supposed sex game gone wrong in 2007.
The pair were convicted, acquitted on appeal, then convicted again and finally acquitted again in 2015.
Rudy Guede, a native of the Ivory Coast, is serving a 16-year sentence for Kercher’s murder. His conviction was based on DNA evidence after his bloodstained fingerprints were found on Kercher’s bed