Though her long legal battle ended favorably for her, Amanda Knox is still feeling the harsh effects of her eight-year long battle to prove she didn't murder her former roommate Meredith Kercher.

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According to the New York Post, Knox and her family have been left in a state of financial ruin from the ordeal, are they are now penniless due to the extensive legal fees they accrued during the saga, which saw Knox and her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito twice tried, convicted and cleared of Kercher's grisly death.

"The [ordeal] has been hugely emotional, but the financial impact has been catastrophic," Trial by Jury author Douglas Preston said. "Amanda received a $4 million advance for her book [Waiting To Be Heard], that money has all gone, immediately out of the door to pay legal fees and there is nothing left. She really want to establish that she's innocent in Italy, they've paid a lot of fees to Italian lawyers."

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In addition to the financial struggles she is now facing, Preston also alleges that some of her ordeal also left Knox suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, noting that treatment she faced while serving four years in an Italian prison, as well as the hate she has received on the Internet as factors.

"In prison, she was threatened with rape from a male guard, it was a really terrible experience. I think it has really affected her, [it's] really hard to lead a normal life after that," he said. "She went to Italy as a normal 20-year-old, West Coast girl, a soccer player, rock climber, very naïve. So many terrible things happened to her in Italy, so many lied were said, and the online savagery directed at her, I've never seen anything like it."

Knox's ordeal ended March 27 after Italy's Supreme Court of Cassation overturned her second conviction for Kercher's murder and opted not to send her through a third and final appeals trial process.

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