Belle Knox

A fictionalized version of Knox's story was featured in "Pornstar's Requiem," an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Knox has also been the focus of the five-part documentary series Becoming Belle Knox, which was produced and released by Stateless Media and Conde Nast Entertainment. In 2015, she narrated on a one-hour episode of "One Bad Choice" on MTV, also showing a dramatized version of her life. A TV docudrama based on her life titled From Straight A's to XXX premiered on the Lifetime network in February 2017.

Knox has won a 2014 Fanny Award and a 2015 XBIZ Award.

On January 10, 2014, fellow Duke student Thomas Bagley revealed Knox's career to his fraternity brothers. Accounts of how Bagley deduced Knox's identity vary: Bagley claims that Knox revealed her work to him as a secret, whereas Knox claims that Bagley recognized her from watching porn in which she starred. The news quickly spread through the community.

Knox believes that the public response exhibited a double standard sex workers face from those who seek their services. In February 2014 Knox gave an interview to the campus newspaper, The Chronicle, in which she used the pseudonym "Lauren A.," and referred to her stage name as "Aurora" to avoid identifying herself. She expressed frustration over her treatment stating, "I feel like girls at Duke have to hide their sexuality. We're caught in this virgin-whore dichotomy." Knox published a similar defense on lifestyle website XoJane, but the storm of harassment continued. Knox's identity, contact information, and location were posted, but when Knox contacted the police over the ongoing threats, the police failed to respect her concerns.

On March 4 2014, Knox decided to embrace her new reality: she wrote a second post where she revealed her stage name, and reflected on her experiences. She would later summarize her reasoning as: "I think the [sex-work] industry needs a feminist advocate as well."

In May 2014, Knox announced that she would be hosting an online show called The Sex Factor along with four other porn stars, where they would oversee 16 contestants that would compete for the right to participate in a sex scene with Knox. In February 2015, Asa Akira replaced Knox as the show's host.

Knox is half Canadian and half Punjabi Indian. As of 2014, Knox is pursuing a major in women's studies and sociology and has expressed interest in becoming a women's rights activist, and civil rights lawyer. She identifies as bisexual.

Knox started doing pornography in 2013 to help pay for her $60,000 per year tuition costs. In late 2013, her career became publicly known on campus, and she faced extensive in-person and online harassment. Knox took a college-sanctioned break from Duke University in early 2014 and later returned to continue her studies.

She began working in pornography in November 2013, flying out to Los Angeles while on school breaks to perform in the films. Knox chose the name "Belle", inspired by Belle from Beauty and the Beast and the character of Belle from Secret Diary of a Call Girl; the name "Knox" is after Amanda Knox, exonerated in the murder of Meredith Kercher. In early 2015 Knox declined to comment on whether she is still filming adult movies, but announced later in the year that she was no longer in the industry.

Miriam Weeks (born June 9, 1995), known predominantly by her stage name of Belle Knox, is an American former pornographic actress. She is known for performing in pornography while studying at Duke University.