Controversy Erupts Over Sale of Amy Winehouse’s Blood-Stained Ballet Shoes for 3,000 Pounds

Friends and fans are unhappy with the sale of a pair of Amy Winehouse shoes. It concerns a pair of blood-stained ballerinas worn by the singer in 2007. During a violent argument with her husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, things got so intense that the blood ended up famous singer on ballet shoes.

The shoes were sold on an auction site a while ago, along with a bunch of other Winehouse clothes. They were sold by her friend Catriona Gourlay and her photographer Naomi Parry. The description said the shoes were “frequently worn” – which could explain the stained condition, the dried blood has now turned brown. Not a word was said about the fighting and the blood. The ballerinas were on sale for 3,000 pounds (3,478 euros) and finally sold for 3,120 pounds (3,617 euros) after 22 bids.

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The shoes were sold a while ago, but the news has only appeared because of friends who took it angrily in the British newspaper The Mirror. “This is one last insult. Amy would be turning in her grave,” said a close friend. “This is horrible and sickening,” another friend told the newspaper.

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This is not the first time the two ‘friends’ have been criticized for selling Amy’s personal items. Her father, Mitch Winehouse (73), says the two have sold items at auction before. Both sold at least 156 items. From two brushes, lipstick, sunglasses and body lotion. According to him, they would have saved around 3.8 million euros.

Both still insist that they got the items from Amy and that they can therefore do whatever they want with them. Mitch Winehouse totally disagrees with that. He previously requested in a lawsuit that the women must donate 854,997 euros to the Amy Winehouse Foundation. This is a fund that was established in memory of the singer and which aims to strengthen the self-confidence and resilience of children and young people. Perry and Gourlay said that Mitch Winehouse was celebrating and that all their profits were lost due to the high legal costs of the lawsuit.