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Amy Winehouse’s father Mitch Winehouse has been ordered to pay after unsuccessfully suing his late daughter’s friends as a personal representative of Amy’s estate.
In a judgement handed down on July 29, which was obtained by E! News, deputy judge of the high court Sarah Clarke ruled that Mitch had to pay £963,852.88—or just under $1.3 million—in indemnity costs to the defendants.
The 75-year-old had previously accused the “Back to Black” singer’s pals Naomi Parry and Catriona Gourla of selling her clothes and personal belongings at auctions from 2021 to 2023 without his consent, which the two women denied. Some of the 155 items sold included Amy’s ballet slippers, bags, jewelry, makeup and a dress she wore on her final tour in 2011, according to The Guardian.
A judge ruled against the Amy Winehouse Foundation co-founder on April 20, disputing his claim that the two women had “deliberately concealed” the sale of Amy’s items as Mitch “knew all along” of their intent to sell.
As a result, Mitch is being ordered to pay their legal expenses, with this latest judgment characterizing his lawsuit as “speculative, weak, opportunistic and thin.”
“I am satisfied that there is no basis to depart from the general rule that costs should follow the event,” Clarke wrote in her ruling. “The claimant chose to bring an inherently weak claim, pursue it aggressively and relentlessly to the end, and make serious and unfounded allegations against the defendants which significantly damaged their reputations, career prospects, financial security and health.”
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Following the judge’s ruling in April, defendant Parry, who was Amy’s stylist, thanked the high court for having “cleared my name, unequivocally and in full.” She also reflected on her friendship with the “Rehab” artist, who died in 2011 at the age 27 from alcohol poisoning.
“I stood beside Amy as a friend, a creative partner and her costume designer,” she said on April 20, according to The Guardian. “What we shared was built on trust, loyalty and a genuine love of the work. To see that relationship misrepresented so publicly has been both painful and profoundly unjust.”
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