An adult-entertainment company wants Foxy Knoxy to take a paltry sum of money to extend her 15 minutes of infamy. Has porn hit moral rock bottom?

How much would you pay to see a reasonably attractive, twice-convicted murderer be gang-banged by a bunch of apes in the adult entertainment industry?

Days after an Italian appellate court upheld Amanda “Angel Face” Knox’s guilty verdict for murdering her roommate Meredith Kercher in 2007, a porn company in California offered Foxy Knoxy a paltry $20,000 to debase herself on camera. Monarch Distributions CEO Mike Kulich shared his pitch with The Daily Dot: “As you may have read, and were most likely well aware of, the general consensus is you are absolutely smoking hot. Since you came back into the headlines, our loyal fan base has been e-mailing us non-stop asking about you.” To sweeten the deal, Kulich promised Knox control “over all terms of productions [sic],” including her choice of acceptable sex acts and preferred costar(s).

This is a pathetic tradition in the porn world. Never mind the vanishingly small odds of Knox taking a vanishingly small sum of money to capitalize on her much discussed sex appeal: Monarch Distributions has already garnered free publicity by inserting themselves into the media frenzy over Knox’s re-conviction (yes, I am contributing to this problem). And that’s the point. The Internet might sneer at Monarch, but all press is good press, after all. Indeed, they pulled the same PR stunt in December 2013 with disgraced PR exec Justine Sacco, offering her $10,000 to star in “Justine’s African Vacation” after her infamous tweet, “’Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get AIDS. Just kidding. I’m white!’” (At the time, Sacco worked for The Daily Beast’s parent company, IAC.)

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