Casey Anthony Almost $800,000 in Debt, Casey Anthony is bankrupt, WPBF 25 News has learned. She said she's $792,000 in debt. About $500,000 of that sum is from attorney fees from her high-profile trial.

She was acquitted in 2011 of killing her 2-year-old daughter Caylee.

Anthony also owes the Orange County Sheriff's Office more than $145,000 to cover investigative fees. A judge has said he will take 30 days to decide whether the rights to Casey Anthony's life story can be sold by her trustee to pay off debt as part of her bankruptcy proceedings.

Miss Anthony, who was acquitted almost two years ago of killing her daughter Caylee, filed for bankruptcy in January and appeared in court last month, claiming that she has debts of almost $800,000.

Tampa-based bankruptcy trustee Stephen Meininger wants to sell off the rights to Miss Anthony's story claiming that it is her best bet for paying back the estimated $792,000 she owes. Most of Miss Anthony's debts are owed to her defence lawyers, with the original bankruptcy petition claiming that she owns a little over $1,000 in assets.

But Miss Anthony does not want to sell her story and her attorneys strongly disagree with Mr Meininger's proposed unprecedented legal move.

Judge K. Rodney May will announce his decision whether to allow the worldwide exclusive rights to her life story to be auctioned off to the highest bidder in 30 days, but admits that he is 'sceptical' about the controversial proposal.

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