Topic > find Amanda guilty of defamation against Diya "Patrick" Lumumba and sentence her to serve time and pay Lumumba $29,000. On paper, the authorities increased her sentence from one year to just over three years, but she had already served her sentence and was released. Amanda leaves Italy It took Amanda just two hours from the moment she was released by the court to leave the prison where she had spent the last three years. She quickly returned to Seattle, Washington, first taking a flight to Rome, where her mother was waiting for her with open arms..