Casey Anthony – the mom famously acquitted of murdering her toddler daughter – was seen on a date in a Florida bar with a new man who says he is unconcerned by her past.
Antony Karagiannis, 38, was spotted on a date with Anthony in Bru’s Room in West Palm Beach. Anthony was found not guilty of murdering two-year-old Caylee in 2011 after a highly publicized trial that shocked America.
Karagiannis, a bar worker, has said that the accusations of murder and the fact that she was found guilty on four other counts including lying to law enforcement are ‘none of my business’.
Casey Anthony, 32, who was famously acquitted of murdering her two-year-old daughter in 2011, is reportedly dating Antony Karagiannis, 38 (pictured together)
‘I don’t know anything about it,’ Karagiannis told Radar. ‘She’s very friendly. When I first met her, I knew the name, but I never really read into it. I don’t really care!’
One reason why Karagiannis, who has a young daughter, is so unperturbed by Anthony’s past is that he has been involved in a number of misdemeanors himself.
In 2005 he was arrested on suspicion of a battery offence involving his roommate, a Del Ray Police Department clerk told Radar, but files related to the incident were destroyed in a chlorine leak.
Then, according to a 2014 police report obtained by Radar, Karagiannis posed as a law enforcement officer multiple times to park in the best spot outside his ex-girlfriend’s apartment complex in West Palm Beach.
Casey Anthony listens to testimony about forensic evidence during her murder trial at the Orange County Courthouse on Friday, June 10, 2011
Casey was acquitted of murder on July 5, 2011. She is pictured two weeks later with lawyer Jose Baez
‘Each time he [was] confronted about the parking issue he advises security that he is a Miami Dade Police Officer and his weapon is in the vehicle,’ police said according to the report. Charges were never filed however.
Anthony’s daughter Caylee went missing on July 15, 2008. The two-year-old’s remains were discovered on December 11 only a few blocks from away from Anthony’s home in Orlando, Florida
Anthony’s father George confirmed that his daughter had been ‘seeing someone’, and the couple were pictured together in the Florida bar last month, although Karagiannis has claimed he is ‘not dating’ her officially.
Anthony was branded the most hated mom in America during her high-profile six-week trial in 2011.
Her daughter Caylee went missing on July 15, 2008 and had not been seen by her mother for a month when she was eventually reported missing by her grandmother, Cindy.
Initially Anthony claimed she had been kidnapped by a nanny.
However the child’s skull was discovered in a wooded area only a few blocks from away from Anthony’s home in Orlando, Florida on December 11 2008.
Anthony changed her story several times before her trial. Her defense team would ultimately claim that Caylee drowned in the pool and her grandfather George buried her nearby.
As well as implicating him in Caylee’s death, Anthony also claimed her father George molested her as a child. George Anthony vehemently denies having any involvement in his granddaughter’s death and ferociously disputes the sexual assault allegations.
He believes she killed Caylee accidentally with chloroform, traces of which were found in Anthony’s abandoned car during police investigations.
But Anthony has always said she has no idea how the toddler died and does not ‘give a s***’ what people think of her, since she ‘sleeps pretty good at night’.
Casey Anthony peared comfortable holding the child as others enjoyed sangria and beer
Although she was acquitted in 2011 of first-degree murder, she was convicted of four counts relating to providing false information a police officer.
She has since admitted this, but described herself as ‘one of the unfortunate idiots who admitted they lied’.
She has been spotted multiple times at Florida bars and in February was pictured holding a friend’s baby at a restaurant,eight years after Caylee’s death.
Casey’s father George believes she killed her daughter with chloroform. He is pictured above with his wife Cindy in 2009
Casey Anthony poses for a portrait next to a photo of her daughter, Caylee, in her West Palm Beach, Florida, bedroom
The 32-year-old was pictured holding the infant on her lap at a restaurant in Clearwater, Florida, at lunchtime, looking relaxed surrounded by glasses of beer and sangria jugs.
The following month Anthony said she would be open to having another child.
George has said he will never speak to his daughter again, and after hearing that she was ready to settle down and perhaps start a family again, he said: ‘Knowing now that she could be a mom again, I hope she does better this time around than she did last time.’