TWO of Amy Winehouse’s dresses worth £130,000 have been stolen from the house where she died. Her wedding dress and a cocktail frock she wore on TV were swiped from the home in Camden, that fans turned into a shrine. Dad Mitch said: “It’s sickening that someone would steal something in the knowledge of its sentimental value.”
Thieves took the white anchor-pattern cotton dress Amy wore when she wed Blake Fielder-Civil in Miami in 2006. They also took a newsprint cocktail dress she wore on Jools Holland’s BBC music show Later the same year. The dresses had been set aside for auction in New York later this year to raise money for the charity set up in her name after her death in July 2011 aged 27. The wedding dress was expected to raise £100,000 and the TV dress £30,000.
They were among items of memorabilia being catalogued at the house where she died — and which was turned into a shrine by fans. The fact other expensive dresses were ignored raises the suspicion the two items were stolen to order.
The fact other expensive dresses were ignored raises the suspicion the two items were stolen to order.
Some collector (wealthy enough to order a theft) didnt want to risk the official auction.... oh how I hate private art/memorabilia collectors... selfish bastards
