Her kid is dead. Her parents hate her guts. Any reasonable American thinks she’s a murdering monster.
But Casey Anthony wouldn’t trade places with anyone.
Representatives of the world’s media have parachuted in to Orlando and are tripping over each other for the chance to offer Casey big bucks for her life story.
She didn’t have to work before, and now she’ll never have to work again.
Before she was tried, and somehow acquitted, of murdering her precious daughter, Casey mooched off her parents — which allowed her to spend her time living the high life as a party girl.
That job description included making out in bars with chicks and dudes and competing in “hot body” contests. She lost that gig when she went to prison.
But not to worry. She may be dumb as a rock, but she’s no fool.
Casey will rake in a tidy fortune by auctioning off the rights to her exclusive story.
Your kid is killed. Make a killing. It makes me sick to be a member of the same species.
Even before she convinced 12 naive jurors that she didn’t off her toddler and callously dump her body in the woods, she had experience selling herself to the media.
Defense lawyer José Baez admitted in court that ABC, the prestigious network of Diane Sawyer and George Name’s-too-long essentially paid for Casey’s defense by dishing out $200,000 to license personal pictures and videos.
And here’s something even more macabre.
ABC shelled out $15,000 for pictures of a dead rattlesnake found on the Anthony property by meter reader Roy Kronk — as an excuse to score an exclusive.
“I knew there would probably be an interview involved,” Kronk testified at trial.
It looked like a waste.
But months later, Kronk found the remains of poor, dead Caylee near the Anthony home.
And ABC got a cheap interview with Kronk for “Good Morning America,” “World News Tonight” and “20/20.” “Nightline,” too.
CBS’s hands are also dirty.
Casey’s mom, Cindy, said she was paid for an interview with “48 Hours Mystery.” CBS said no way!
But “licensing footage is a standard industry practice done by television news shows to produce a visually complete story,” said a CBS rep.
Mm-kay!
Let’s not forget the book deal! Even when Casey was cooling her heels in jail, she was penning letters to a fellow inmate about her newfound literary ambitions — she was going to write a memoir.
At 25!
Everyone in this depressing case is cashing in on the corpse of the sad child with the big, brown eyes. Juror No. 6, a 33-year-old man, has hired a publicist — who coincidentally reps Speedo — and is offering networks a shot at his tale, for a price.
There’s talk of Casey doing a reality show. Or appearing with the always sympathetic (and deep-pocketed) Oprah Winfrey.
“She’s going to be living the good life,” said a source in the TV industry. “And she got away with murder.”
Casey is being sentenced today on minor charges of lying to cops — and could walk out of prison a free woman if she gets time served.
But if, by chance, Casey’s fame lasts only the traditional 15 minutes, there’ll be no going home again. Mommy and Daddy Dearest may not be so keen to renew their gal’s couch-potato lifestyle. Because during trial, Casey’s lawyer made the parents out to be total freaks.
He claimed that dad George was a psycho child molester who had his way with Casey from age 8.
Still, there’s very little danger of Casey ever having to attend a job fair.
The Mother of the Century already got a feeler from porn film producer Vivid Entertainment. The company offered her a job making adult films, but withdrew it after getting its name in the papers.
Still, there will no doubt be other similar and equally lucrative offers.
She could make $60,000 a picture! It’s her civil right to grind and jiggle!
I will not watch any show, movie or infomercial with blood on its hands.
This has to stop.