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Winehouse forced to return charity donations
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 22 August 2011
Mitch Winehouse has been forced to return donations intended for the Amy Winehouse Foundation, which he announced he would set up in the wake of his daughter’s death last month. Many fans sent cheques made out to the foundation, but it appears that someone else has already registered the company name, meaning they cannot be banked.
Winehouse wrote on Twitter last week: “We all have to bombard the tabloids’ websites to put pressure on this dick head who stole our foundation name. Instead of concentrating on allocating funding I am having to send cheques back cos we haven’t got [a] bank [account] in that name. Our solicitors are all over this, but it takes time. Meanwhile we can’t get on with [the] foundation.”
As previously reported, Winehouse revealed earlier this month that Amy’s Camden home would become the headquarters of the foundation, telling The Mirror that it would focus on “causes close to her heart”, which “could include help for children in trouble, kids suffering health problems, children’s hospices and more”.
