Two dresses worn by late British singer Amy Winehouse have been stolen from her house, her family’s charitable foundation has said.
The two dresses were due to be auctioned as part of charity events later this year and next in London and New York to raise money for the Amy Winehouse Foundation, which funds a number of concerns including children’s hospices and drug counselling.
One of the Back to Black singer’s stolen dresses was the one she wore to marry Blake Fielder-Civil in 2007 and the other was a newsprint cocktail dress.
Both were taken from a cupboard in her house after they had been catalogued alongside other items.
The foundation said the house had not been broken into and that a formal complaint to police was forthcoming.
Winehouse’s father Mitch Winehouse said he was “baffled” that thieves had not gone for her designer dresses.
“It’s sickening that someone would steal something in the knowledge of its sentimental value,” he said.
Winehouse was found dead in her London home on July 23rd, 2011, at the age of 27. She died from accidental alcohol poisoning. – (Reuters)