{"id":762916,"date":"2026-09-07T13:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T13:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/762916\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T13:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T13:50:12","slug":"amy-winehouse-letter-to-hmp-highpoint-inmate-sold-at-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/762916\/","title":{"rendered":"Amy Winehouse letter to HMP Highpoint inmate sold at auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The never-before-seen Valentine\u2019s Day card was sent in February 2009 to Blake Fielder-Civil while he was serving time at HMP Edmunds Hill, now HMP Highpoint North, in Suffolk.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Fielder-Civil was serving a 27-month sentence for assault and perverting the course of justice, and was later recalled to prison after failing a court-ordered drug test.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eadt.co.uk\/news\/26403288.amy-winehouse-letter-prisoner-hms-highpoint-revealed\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Winehouse wrote the letter<\/a> while on holiday in the Caribbean, after Mr Fielder-Civil had filed for divorce.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Amy Winehouse and Mark Ronson on stage during the BRIT Awards 2008 (Image: Yui Mok\/PA)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The card reads: &#8220;My husband, my Blake.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Virtue is violent, and violets are blue.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Blue \u2013 bruised is my heart since its beatings for you.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I love you, handsome, your Valentine four years strong.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Your Amy.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The item, which included an envelope addressed to Mr Fielder-Civil in prison and stamped from St Lucia, was expected to fetch between \u00a32,000 and \u00a34,000.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It was sold by Ewbank\u2019s in Guildford on August 26.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Ms Winehouse died on July 23, 2011, at the age of 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The never-before-seen Valentine\u2019s Day card was sent in February 2009 to Blake Fielder-Civil while he was serving time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":762917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-762916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}