Overview
- The court's costs judgment, issued Wednesday, July 29, 2026, requires Mitch Winehouse to pay Naomi Parry £569,330 and Catriona Gourlay £394,521 as interim sums within two weeks.
- Deputy High Court Judge Sarah Clarke dismissed his substantive claim in April after finding he had known about the planned US auctions and therefore the women had not deliberately concealed the items.
- Clarke said Winehouse pursued an 'inherently weak' case aggressively and that her ruling orders defendants’ costs to be paid on an indemnity basis because of his conduct.
- The dispute covered 155 items sold at auctions in 2021 and 2023, including clothes, accessories and a silk minidress from Amy Winehouse’s final performance that fetched about $243,200, with the women saying items were given or loaned to them.
- The judgment records that Winehouse incurred at least £950,000 in his own legal fees and signals likely near-term enforcement or appeal moves while leaving the friends cleared of wrongdoing and facing reputational and financial harm from the litigation.