Amy Winehouse clothes flogged on eBay

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In 2021 there was an auction in America to sell off many of Amy Winehouse's possessions.

https://www.juliensauctions.com/about-auction?id=320

The results of the auction -

https://juliensauctions.com/auction-results?id=320

And now a lot of her possessions that was bought at the auction is now on eBay.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?sid=charlieemouse&pgn=1&isRefine=true&&_trksid=p4429486.m3561.l49496

If she had been my daughter, I don't think I would have liked to have seen her possessions continuously sold on.

I wasn't even a fan of her or her music but it just seems weird to see such personal items as her ballet shoes being sold -

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/295406727606?hash=item44c79cf1b6:g:hxMAAOSwne1jmKGK

I see 30% of the original auction proceeds went to charity. One can only guess where the rest went.
If my daughter had died so young, I would have treasured her legacy, rather than flogged everything from her childhood off, for the biggest buck.

Don't know about the auction. Seems lacking in taste but I don't know the detail.
Just so sad and shocked when I heard the news way back when.
Such a genius. Such a talent.
Her music will live forever!!!

Celebrity memorabilia has its place of course but I think because she died so young and in horrible circumstances, it seems ghoulish to sell her ballet shoes etc.

Normally when people die the majority of their personal stuff is chucked or sent to charity and people keep a few momentoes. Possibly some people have the time/ inclination to sell it. It's just stuff though, it doesn't necessarily hold any sentiment for the family. Lots of dead celebs have stuff out there that people have sold.

Over a grand for a moth eaten jumper though! Honestly if someone was willing to pay £££ for my old stuff then I'd want dc to flog it.

If the person who owned things such as her ballet shoes no longer wants them, then it is reasonable for them to want to sell them on.

There’s so much fake stuff for sale online, even with that certificate I’m not convinced it’s real. Anyone can claim these things.

I once sat opposite her on the tube in 2005. She got on in Camden. It was just as she was getting famous. I had folllowed her early stuff in 2003-4.
I was shocked at how unwell she looked and she had her now infamous ballet slippers on but they had blood spots on them where her toes were.

I was so glad when she made a comeback in 2006 but she led such a tragic short life.

If you look, it’s the same seller that’s selling dozens and dozens of Amy Whitehouse items. I would assume it’s original, as surely no one could be that bothered sourcing look alike and faking COA, especially as her family will notice the sale I’m sure.

Ive always thought it weird that people buy famous dead peoples stuff, but clearly people do. I’m sure there are things I like that others wouldn’t see the point of/find bizarre 🤷‍♀️

I'm sure the family kept some of her stuff for sentimental reasons but what they did with the rest of it is their business. I imagine she had a large amount of possessions and it wouldn't be realistic to leave them moulding away in storage.
Better for it all to be put to good use by others and if they wish to pay large amounts of money for it that's up to them

When my mam died my dad bagged up all her belongs to chuck in a flash. I barely got time to see anything and the things I salvaged I pulled out of bin bags. I never found some really important momentos. He was obsessed with 'clearing the space'.

Shes a celeb so they sold them but the reality is if she had just been a generic 27 year old junkie who died he parents would likely have cleared her belongs from he house with a house clearance company they paid to take the stuff within the month.

We got our TV and Fridge from a family member we barely knew who died. They have practical purpose to us and where free but theres no sentimental value in it for us.

in the horrible event that one of my adult DC were to die before me I couldn't keep all their stuff. I wouldn't want it (if I want the same sort of things they have I would already have them). I wouldn't have room for it and I wouldn't certainly wouldn't need material possessions to remember them.

I might keep one or two things like a book or a childhood toy or maybe an item of jewellery to wear but otherwise everything would have to go. Sold or donated or binned. The Winehouse' family have done just that and good luck to them.

If we all hung on to dead people's things out of sentiment we would end up living in over cluttered shrines (which sadly seems to happen to a lot of people).