Mitch Winehouse has been ordered to pay nearly £1million to two of Amy Winehouse’s friends after losing a High Court case over the sale of items connected to the late singer, according to NME.
The court directed interim payments of £569,330 to former stylist Naomi Parry and £394,521 to friend Catriona Gourlay within the next two weeks. Winehouse has also been told to cover their legal costs on an indemnity basis.
The ruling follows the dismissal of his claim in April. Acting as the personal representative of Amy Winehouse’s estate, he had argued that the two women profited from auction sales in the US in 2021 and 2023 and said they had hidden their intention to sell the items.
Parry and Gourlay said Amy had either given them the belongings or that the items already belonged to them. Deputy High Court Judge Sarah Clarke KC rejected Winehouse’s claim, later saying in a costs judgment that he had pursued an “inherently weak claim” and had turned the case into expensive litigation.
Among the items sold was a silk minidress worn during Winehouse’s final performance in Belgrade in 2011, which fetched $243,200. Winehouse died in July 2011 at age 27 from accidental alcohol poisoning at her Camden home.
