The Amy Winehouse estate has gone legal over an auction of items that belonged to the late musician by two of her friends.
The estate says that while it also auctioned off some of Winehouse's belongings in 2021, in part raising money for the Amy Winehouse Foundation, it has concerns about Catriona Gourlay and Naomi Parry personally profiting from the sale of such items, both at the 2021 auction and more recently.
According to The Sun, the item that fetched the most money at the 2021 auction was a dress designed by Parry and worn by Winehouse at her final performance in 2011. It went for £200,000.
Confirming that it had filed a lawsuit with the High Court in London, the estate said in a statement: "In 2021, Amy's estate auctioned items from her life and career with 30% of the proceeds going to the Amy Winehouse Foundation. Two individuals sold a number of items at that auction and have retained the proceeds: the items were all Amy related".
Claiming that the 2021 auction and another earlier this year “generated six figure sums” for each of friends, the lawsuit also says that: “The estate has questioned how [the] items [they sold] came into their possession and has not had satisfactory answers”.
According to the Daily Mail, Gourlay and Parry are expected to dispute the estate's allegations, although neither has yet commented publicly.
