US EditionAmy Winehouse's Father Sues Star's Friends for Auctioning Her Clothes
Mitch Winehouse alleges former stylist and friend sold over 150 personal items from Amy Winehouse’s estate without consent, raising $1.2 million at US auctions.
- On Monday, Mitch Winehouse, administrator of Amy Winehouse’s estate, sued Naomi Parry, stylist, and Catriona Gourlay, friend and former flatmate, alleging undisclosed profits from auctions in the United States in 2021 and 2023.
- Mr Winehouse says the dispute stems from believing all 834 lots in the 2021 auction catalogue belonged to the estate, but over 150 items were asserted by the women, including a silk mini-dress sold for 243,200.
- Auction records show that Naomi Parry sold around 50 items for $878,183 and Catriona Gourlay sold around 90 items for $334,113, with both attending a second auction in May 2023.
- The defendants counter that many disputed items were gifted or always belonged to Naomi Parry and Catriona Gourlay, and their barristers argue that years of sharing and swapping support these ownership claims.
- The 2021 auction accounted for proceeds of around 1.4 million dollars, with 30% going to the Amy Winehouse Foundation, while Darren Julien, of Julien's Auctions, did not correct Mr Winehouse's belief all lots belonged to the estate.
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Amy Winehouse's friends have sold clothes that belonged to the singer, but they had no right to do so, her father believes.
The friends of British singer Amy Winhouse, who won over 700,000 pounds of sterline (800,000 euros) by throwing off the sale of clothing and other items belonging to them, face an attempted process by her father, who claims that money should have come to the family and to a dedicated memory of the artist.
Mitchelle Winehouse claims the full amount of these sales organized by the former stylist and roommate of the singer, estimated at over 700,000 pounds by her lawyers. The trial has been held in London since 8 December.
Fourteen years after Amy Winehouse's death, her father Mitch took legal action against two of the singer's friends, who he accused of profiting from the auction of some of her personal items.
The father of the deceased singer Amy Winehouse filed a lawsuit against two of her daughter’s friends, who claimed the money obtained after auctioning the artist’s clothes and belongings for a total of $972 thousand. Mitchell Winehouse, who claims that these revenues should have been given to her family and to a foundation created in memory of her daughter, initiated a judicial process that began to be examined on Monday in the High Court of Lon…
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