A friend of Amy Winehouse has said she believes the singer’s father is suing her to “hurt me in any way he can”, the High Court has been told.

Mitch Winehouse, acting as the administrator of his daughter’s estate, is bringing legal action against her stylist, Naomi Parry, and friend, Catriona Gourlay, for hundreds of thousands of pounds.

Mr Winehouse claims that the pair profited from selling dozens of items at auctions in the United States in 2021 and 2023 that they did not have the right to sell, with his lawyers telling a trial in London that they “deliberately concealed” doing so.

Ms Parry and Ms Gourlay are defending the claim, with their barristers saying that the items were either gifted by Ms Winehouse or were already owned by them.

In a witness statement, Ms Parry, who began g

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