Singer Amy Winehouse Reproduction/YouTube The father of British singer Amy Winehouse was ordered, this Wednesday (29), to pay 950 thousand pounds (around 6.4 million reais) to friends of his late daughter, whom he unsuccessfully sued for having auctioned off the artist's clothes and other objects. Earlier this year, Mitch Winehouse lost a case in the UK High Court against two of the artist's friends who auctioned off dozens of the singer's clothes and other belongings years after her death. The late singer, famous for her characteristic hoarse voice and for achieving meteoric success on a global scale, died in July 2011 from alcohol poisoning, when she was just 27 years old. Naomi Parry, the singer's former stylist, and her friend Catriona Gourlay denied having acted dishonestly in auctioning off the objects, which, they claimed, had been given or lent by Amy. The artist's father claimed that they did not have the right to sell the items.
Amy Winehouse's father ordered to pay R$6 million in dispute over sale of the singer's objects
Singer Amy Winehouse Reproduction/YouTube The father of British singer Amy Winehouse was ordered, this Wednesday (29), to pay 950 thousand pounds (around 6.4 million reais) to friends of his late daughter, whom he...
The 155 objects auctioned between 2021 and 2023 included pieces of clothing, ballet shoes, bags, earrings and makeup products that belonged to Amy, as well as a dress she wore on her last tour in 2011. During the trial, the plaintiff's lawyers alleged that Amy Winehouse's friends had taken advantage of the fact that her father forgot certain things or didn't remember them well to auction off the singer's belongings. and keep the money obtained, more than 1.4 million dollars (approximately 7.1 million reais) from sales. The judge concluded that the two women "did not deliberately hide" any of the objects from Winehouse's father, who "always knew" of their intention to sell them and only took legal action against them to obtain money after the auction had concluded. "The author decided to present an intrinsically fragile action and formulate serious unfounded accusations against the defendants", declared judge Sarah Clarke this Wednesday (29). "The fact that he knowingly and deliberately did this to two young women who stood faithfully by Amy's side makes his unreasonable conduct especially serious," the judge added. In the sentence handed down in April, the judge highlighted that Amy Winehouse was known for her "extraordinary generosity towards her friends and also towards people she barely knew".
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