After spending nearly 3 years behind bars and enduring an emotional trial, Casey Anthony could hit the jackpot by turning her infamy into fortune.
Anthony was released from jail early this morning.
She has already been offered a million dollars from an independent producer to tell her story and that’s just the first offer.
“Between a combination of a book, maybe some sort of magazine articles, tv interviews and other ways of telling this monstrous story that she has, she’ll probably be able to wrestle out of this about a million dollars,” public relations expert Davidson Goldin said on “Good Morning America.”
This wouldn’t be the first time notoriety transcends into wealth.
After O.J. Simpson’s 1997 acquittal for murder, he was given a $1 million publishing advance for his book “If I Did It,” a first-person account of how the former football star could have carried out the slayings of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
Amy Fisher served 6 years in prison for the attempted murder of her lover’s wife.
Since her parole in 1999, she sold more than 32,000 copies of her book: “If I Knew Then.”
She made a career in the adult film industry and her struggles with alcoholism landed her a spot on VH1’s reality series “Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew.”
After the Menendez brothers were sentenced to life in prison in 1996, for killing their parents, Erik Menendez’s wife Tammi Menendez wrote a self published book, “They Said We’d Never Make It – My Life With Erik Menendez.”
Some say the likelihood of Casey Anthony cashing in is high but others are not so sure.
“Some people may not want to touch her because they think she has a little girls blood on her hands,” said legal expert Susan Filan.
