Amy Winehouse’s dad Mitch has been ordered to pay virtually £1 million to 2 of his late daughter’s associates, who he had claimed had been profiting by promoting her private property at public sale.
Amy Winehouse’s dad loses court docket bid
Mitch, who has been administrator of his daughter’s property since her loss of life from alcohol poisoning aged 27 on 23 July, 2011, made the accusation towards Naomi Parry and Catriona Gourlay at London’s Excessive Courtroom.
Based on the court docket doc, he alleged the 2 ladies despatched “varied objects of private property owned by Amy throughout her lifetime” to 2 auctions in 2021 and this yr and claimed that by placing the objects up on the market “in their very own names and on their very own behalf” the ladies “transformed” the late performer’s property “to their very own use”.
Amy’s property sought £534,192.90 in damages from Naomi, and £198,041.07 from Catriona, however a choose mentioned in a ruling on Wednesday (29.07.26) that Mitch “knew all alongside” concerning the meant sale.
Decide Sarah Clarke KC mentioned: “The claimant selected to convey an inherently weak declare, pursue it aggressively and relentlessly to the tip, and make critical and unfounded allegations towards the defendants which considerably broken their reputations, profession prospects, monetary safety and well being.”
Naomi’s prices are estimated to be £715,361 whereas Catriona’s are £487,132, with Mitch given two weeks by the choose to make the interim funds.
Mitch has additionally been ordered to pay the pair’s authorized prices on an indemnity foundation – a state of affairs normally reserved for when one aspect has behaved notably badly.
Decide Clarke mentioned that in taking the 2 ladies to court docket, Mitch had “intentionally turned this case into large-scale and costly litigation, in circumstances calculated to exert industrial strain on the defendants to choose his phrases”.
She mentioned: “This deliberate plan of action was undertaken by the claimant with the goal of damaging the defendants’ reputations {and professional} prospects with a purpose to power them to settle the litigation on his phrases and pay him the proceeds of sale of their objects.
“He did so, figuring out that they have been weak each financially and in standing, and that his public allegations and insinuations of impropriety would solely improve their vulnerability
“The truth that he knowingly and intentionally did this to 2 younger ladies who had stood faithfully by Amy, and in addition by him and his household, and who had demonstrated their honesty and integrity over a few years, makes his unreasonable conduct notably critical.”
