Let's figure $1300 round trip. $2600 for the two parents. This was their 24th trip, so airfare was around $62,000. Hotel for 24 one week stays (I'm sure it was longer than that during the trial) at $200 a night (at least) comes to $34,000. So lets call it $100,000. Then eating would come to at least $100 a day, which is $17,000. That gives us a travel bill of roughly $120,000.
Legal fees for a murder trial and appeal over four years? At least (I'm really lowballing) $1500 a week...for 200 weeks for a lawyer's tab of $300,000.
Grand total...a minimum of $420,000. And they still had to pay their regular bills at home during all this.
I know the grandmother spent $250,000 of her own money, so one can imagine the true cost.
This family is broke.
“This family is broke.”
I’m sure they are, or close to it. I feel badly for them.
My comment was just in answer to your comment:
“Knox’s parents have paid . . . or somebody funded . . .for sending their daughter to Italy. And somebody is paying to fly her home.”
They may be broke now, but darling daughter can make them good when she sells the movie rights to her ‘ordeal’. They’ll be fine.
Good job! And who knows if either one lost their job during all the time off and/or not getting paid for their time out. Hopefully, there is a movie and book deal awaiting her. May she make million$ that mom and dad may have the opportunity of never working again. I hope she rips our media for ever printing/speaking propaganda about anyone to suite their own agenda because of the damaging effect it has on the innocent. Woe to them!