Amy Winehouse's Dad Ordered To Pay Almost £1 Million To Singers' Friends
Amy Winehouse's Dad Ordered To Pay Almost £1 Million To Singers' Friends
Amy GloverSun, August 2, 2026 at 10:31 AM UTC
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Amy Winehouse’s father, Mitch Winehouse, has been ordered to pay almost £1 million to the singer’s friends after a failed High Court claim about an auction of Amy’s belongings.
He was ordered to make interim payments of £569,330 to the Back To Black star’s former stylist Naomi Parry and £394,521 to her friend Catriona Gourlay within the next two weeks.
Mitch must also cover the legal fees of both defendants on an indemnity basis.
Parry’s legal costs are estimated at £715,361; meanwhile, Gourlay’s were £487,132.
The BBC reports Winehouse spent roughly £950,000 on the case for his own costs too.
Mitch claimed that Ms Parry and Ms Gourlay made money from selling Amy Winehouse’s belongings at US auctions in 2021 and 2023, saying they “deliberately concealed” their sales. He argued they had no right to sell the items.
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But Deputy High Court Judge Sarah Clarke KC had dismissed this claim in April, saying Mitch “knew all along” about the sale plans and saying neither woman had attempted to hide it from him.
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In her judgement on Wednesday, she said: “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.”
The judge added that by pursuing his claim, Mitch “deliberately turned this case into large-scale and expensive litigation, in circumstances calculated to exert commercial pressure on the defendants to settle on his terms.
“The fact that he knowingly and deliberately did this to two young women who had stood faithfully by Amy, and also by him and his family, and who had demonstrated their honesty and integrity over many years, makes his unreasonable conduct particularly serious.”
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