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Police to view Amy video
24/01/2008 09:30 - (SA)
London - British police said on Wednesday
they would investigate video footage of soul singer Amy
Winehouse allegedly smoking crack cocaine.
Still images from the footage first appeared on the front
page of the Sun tabloid on Tuesday.
"Officers will be viewing the footage when we receive it
from the media," said a spokesperson for London police.
"We will then assess the footage to ascertain whether any
action needs to be taken. As always we thank the media for their
co-operation."
The Sun said it had already handed over the video, taken
early on Friday morning.
Hours later a dishevelled-looking
Winehouse appeared in court to support husband Blake
Fielder-Civil who is fighting charges related to a pub brawl.
Winehouse, one of Britain's top-selling artists, has won
critical and commercial success with her hit album Back to
Black, and garnered six Grammy nominations in December.
The 2006 album has sold nearly five million copies
worldwide, including 1.3 million in the United States.
Winehouse, 24, had been expected to perform at the Grammys
ceremony on February 10, but drugs-related problems have hampered
her request for a visa.
Amy's music promotion in US 'put on hold'
She was arrested for possession of
marijuana in Norway last year.
The Times newspaper quoted Island boss Nick Gatfield as
saying plans to promote her music in the key US market may be
put on hold.
But a label spokesperson said the comments were actually made
in an interview with Billboard in December, before the latest
scandal broke.
Winehouse was photographed visiting a private London clinic
on Tuesday, which a spokesperson for her label said she had been
visiting regularly for some time.
Winehouse's father Mitch said he hoped some good would come
of the scandal.
"Of course it kills me to see my daughter on the front page
of your newspaper like that," he told the Sun.
"It's nothing
short of devastating - thinking she wants to destroy herself.
She'll be heartbroken about it all.
"But for all the hurt and pain, it may finally be the thing
to focus her mind and convince her to get the help she needs to
quit for good."
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