Judge orders Amy Winehouse’s father to pay nearly £1m to her friends

LONDON: The father of British music sensation Amy Winehouse was Wednesday ordered to pay £950,000 (USD 1.26 million) to his late daughter’s friends, who he unsuccessfully sued for auctioning the singer’s clothes and other items.

Mitch Winehouse earlier this year lost a case in the high court in London against two of Winehouse’s friends who auctioned dozens of her clothes and other possessions years after her death.

The late singer-songwriter, who was famed for her distinctive husky voice and enjoyed global meteoric success at a young age, died in July 2011 from alcohol poisoning, aged just 27.

The late singer’s former stylist Naomi Parry and her friend Catriona Gourlay denied acting dishonestly in auctioning the items they said were given or lent to them.

Her father Mitch argued they had no right to sell the items.

The 155 items, which were auctioned between 2021 and 2023, included clothes, ballet slippers, handbags, earrings and make-up owned by the late singer, as well as a dress she wore on her final tour in 2011.