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\n\t\tAmy Winehouse died in 2011 and many of her posessions have since been sold for hundreds of thousands of pounds (Picture: Phillip Massey\/FilmMagic)<\/p>\n
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\n\t\tAmy Winehouse died in 2011 and many of her posessions have since been sold for hundreds of thousands of pounds (Picture: Phillip Massey\/FilmMagic)<\/p>\n
Two friends of Amy Winehouse<\/a> \u2018deliberately concealed\u2019 that they sold dozens of her personal items at auction after her death, barristers for the singer\u2019s father have told the High Court<\/a>.<\/p>\n Mitch Winehouse, acting as the administrator of his daughter\u2019s estate, is suing her stylist Naomi Parry and friend Catriona Gourlay for hundreds of thousands of pounds over claims they profited from selling dozens of items at auctions in the United States<\/a> in 2021 and 2023.<\/p>\n The Back to Black hitmaker died aged 27 from alcohol poisoning in July 2011.<\/p>\n Lawyers for Mr Winehouse told a trial on Monday that the two women did not inform him they were selling the items, and the legal proceedings were his \u2018only means of obtaining answers\u2019.<\/p>\n Parry and Gourlay are defending the claim, with their barristers stating that the items were either gifted by Winehouse or were already owned by them.<\/p>\n Henry Legge KC, for Mr Winehouse, said in written submissions that the items included a silk mini-dress worn by Winehouse in her final performance in Belgrade, Serbia<\/a>, which Parry auctioned for $243,200 (\u00a3182,656) in 2021.<\/p>\n \t\t \t\t He said: \u2018Ms Parry and Ms Gourlay deliberately concealed from Mr Winehouse the fact that they were auctioning the items consigned by them to the 2021 auction and that they were claiming ownership of those items.\u2019<\/p>\n He continued that Mr Winehouse believed that all the 834 items in the 2021 auction catalogue were owned by the estate, but that the two women were \u2018asserting ownership of over 150\u2019.<\/p>\n The barrister also said that Parry was \u2018instrumental in persuading Mr Winehouse to auction the estate\u2019s items\u2019, but did not tell him that she \u2018stood to gain from his agreeing to do so\u2019.<\/p>\n Legge said that after the singer\u2019s death, Mr Winehouse was approached by Darren Julien, of Julien\u2019s Auctions in Los Angeles<\/a>, in 2014 regarding an auction of her belongings, which Mr Winehouse initially declined.<\/p>\n Julien then contacted Parry, who indicated that she would be willing to sell \u2018my collection\u2019 in 2018, with Gourlay indicating she would be willing to sell items in 2019, Legge said.<\/p>\n Mr Winehouse then agreed to auction items in 2021, which raised around 1.4 million dollars (\u00a31.05 million) for the estate, with 30% of the proceeds going to the Amy Winehouse Foundation.<\/p>\n \t\t But Legge said that Julien \u2018did not take steps to correct Mr Winehouse\u2019s obvious impression that all lots belonged to and were being sold by the estate\u2019.<\/p>\n The barrister also said that Julien told Parry in a text message after the auction: \u2018I do think he will go a little nuts when he realises all the big pieces were yours\u2019.<\/p>\n He continued that both women then sold further items at a second auction in May 2023.<\/p>\n A hearing last July was also told by Mr Winehouse\u2019s lawyers that Parry had sold around 50 items at the 2021 auction for around $878,183 (about \u00a3682,000), and Ms Gourlay had sold around 90 items, for a total of $334,113 (about \u00a3259,000).<\/p>\n Giving evidence on Monday, Mr Winehouse said: \u2018I assume that, being so close, Amy would have given them some things, but 150 items, I just cannot believe it.\u2019 <\/p>\n In written submissions, Beth Grossman, for Parry, said that her client became Winehouse\u2019s stylist in 2006 and stayed at her property in Camden, London<\/a>.<\/p>\n To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web She said: \u2018Both defendants contend that the vast majority of the disputed items were in their possession from before Amy\u2019s death in 2011, and in many instances from years before her death.<\/p>\n \u2018Moreover, each defendant alleges that a number of disputed items had, in fact, always belonged to them and had only ever been loaned by Amy.\u2019 <\/p>\n In written submissions on behalf of Gourlay, barrister Ted Loveday said that his client \u2018believed, and still believes, that the sale of the items is \u201cwhat Amy would have wanted\u201d.<\/p>\n He said that Gourlay met Winehouse in 2002 and was her flatmate from 2004 to 2005, with the earlier years of their relationship characterised by \u2018sharing and swapping\u2019.<\/p>\n Loveday continued that after 2006 and the release of Back to Black, Winehouse \u2018increasingly gave away items\u2019 to Ms Gourlay and others as part of \u2018extravagant acts of generosity\u2019.<\/p>\n The barrister also said that Mr Winehouse had \u2018cobbled together\u2019 his claim in a \u2018thoughtless and uncritical way\u2019, and that he was \u2018more concerned with protecting his reputation and punishing Ms Gourlay and Ms Parry for some sort of, entirely imagined, slights\u2019.<\/p>\n Loveday also said that while the case originally concerned 156 items, Mr Winehouse had \u2018abandoned\u2019 his claim to some.<\/p>\n The trial before Sarah Clarke KC, sitting as a deputy High Court judge, is due to conclude later this week.<\/p>\n Got a story?<\/p>\n If you\u2019ve got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the Metro.co.uk<\/a> entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@metro.co.uk, calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff<\/a> page \u2013 we\u2019d love to hear from you.<\/p>\n Arrow![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-1351094161.jpg\")
\n\t\tMitch Winehouse made the claim in High Court (Picture: JMEnternational\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n![\"Amy](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-1479338182-e1765225893299.jpg\")
\n\t\tThe singer lived in Camden, and shared a flat with one of the friends (Picture: Andy Willsher\/Redferns)<\/p>\n![\"Photo](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-88426678.jpg\")
\n\t\tThe other was her stylist (Picture: Rob Verhorst\/Redferns)<\/p>\n
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