Winehouse died from alcohol poisoning in July 2011, aged 27.
Mitch Winehouse, acting as the administrator of his daughter’s estate, claimed her stylist Naomi Parry and friend Catriona Gourlay profited from selling dozens of items at auctions in the US in 2021 and 2023.
Suing them for hundreds of thousands of pounds at the High Court, his lawyers told a trial in December that the two women did not inform him they were selling the items.
He said the legal proceedings were his “only means of obtaining answers”.
Ms Parry and Ms Gourlay defended the claim, with their barristers telling the court the items were either gifted by the star or that they already owned them.
In a judgment handed down on Monday, Deputy High Court judge Sarah Clarke KC said: “I find that neither Ms Parry nor Ms Gourlay deliberately concealed any of their disputed items from the claimant and even if I am wrong about that, Mr Winehouse could have discovered what disputed items the defendants had with reasonable diligence.”
Winehouse, one of the defining talents of her generation, became a household name with her second album, the multiplatinum-selling Back To Black.
She was known for songs including Rehab, Love Is A Losing Game, Tears Dry On Their Own and the album’s hit titular track, along with her cover of The Zutons’ Valerie with Mark Ronson.
She won six Grammys and three Ivor Novello awards for her music and songwriting.
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