Amy Winehouse's father ordered to pay nearly £1 million

The father of the late singer Amy Winehouse has been ordered to pay nearly one million pounds to two of her friends after losing a High Court lawsuit over the sale of her personal belongings. The order, issued on July 29, 2026, requires Mitch Winehouse to make interim payments totaling approximately 963,851 pounds to the singer's former stylist, Naomi Parry, and her friend, Catriona Gourlay, within the next two weeks. He must also cover their legal costs on an indemnity basis, a ruling often reserved for cases where one party has behaved unreasonably.

The payments follow the dismissal of his claim against the two women in April. Acting as the personal representative of his daughter's estate, Winehouse had sued Parry and Gourlay, alleging they profited from selling 155 items belonging to Amy at auctions in the United States in 2021 and 2023. The items included clothing, handbags, jewelry, and memorabilia, such as a silk minidress worn during her final performance in Belgrade in 2011. He argued the women had no right to sell the possessions and had deliberately concealed the sales, seeking more than 700,000 pounds from them.

The defendants maintained that Amy Winehouse had either...