Judge throws out claim by the singer’s father over the sale of items she once owned
Amy Winehouse’s father has lost a high court claim against two of his daughter’s friends over the auctioning of items once owned by the singer.
Mitch Winehouse, acting as the administrator of his daughter’s estate, sued her stylist Naomi Parry and friend Catriona Gourlay over claims they profited from selling dozens of items at auctions in the US in 2021 and 2023.
Lawyers for Mitch Winehouse told a trial in December the two women had “deliberately concealed” the sales, and that the legal proceedings were his “only means of obtaining answers”. Barristers for Parry and Gourlay said the items were either gifts from Amy Winehouse, or were already owned by their clients.
In her ruling, the deputy high court judge Sarah Clarke KC said: “I find that neither Ms Parry nor Ms Gourlay deliberately concealed any of their disputed items from the claimant, and even if I am wrong about that, Mr Winehouse could have discovered what disputed items the defendants had with reasonable diligence.”
