Our street is at war after Amy Winehouse fans graffitied our walls next to her old home – it’s annoying everyone | The Sun
THE home of Amy Winehouse is being flooded with "disrespectful" fans who daub graffiti on her walls and make her neighbours' lives a misery.
The £3million pound London pad attracts visitors from around the world, but residents are fed up with influencers posing outside the home for photos and scrawling messages on their gates.
The legendary singer had lived at the North London home for about a year before her death in July 2011, when fans started leaving flowers and notes for the star.
But some are taking it too far – and they're making life a misery for other residents on the quiet leafy street.
Photos show influencers posing and taking selfies outside the house, and one woman writing on the wall of the home.
And Alison Parkinson, 69, told the Sun Online she thinks it's "disrespectful".
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The local, who has lived just down the road from Winehouse's home for 17 years said: "I have had graffiti written on my walls, fans write graffiti everywhere around here.
"I came back one day and they were writing on the posts, and I said to them ‘do you do this at home?’
“We live here this is our home, I don’t know what they get out of it.
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“I think it’s disrespectful, I don’t know what they are hoping for."
Alison said of the singer: "It’s all very sad, but it’s just peoples' behaviour is disrespectful.
"I don’t know the people who live in the house but I imagine it must be really annoying.
“A friend of mine told me they ring the bell on the house all the time.
“What do they expect is going to happen?”
Amy died in the four-storey London property of an alcohol overdose in July 2011.
Paramedics discovered the singer in her home, clothed but surrounded by empty bottles of vodka with her laptop resting on her bed.
An inquest into her death found that she had died of alcohol poisoning and was more than five times the drink-drive limit.
One local resident said that sometimes close friends of the star come and sit by the tree outside the home.
Bianca Mayhew, 37, said: "It’s mainly tourists that come here.
"There are always people here, everyday people visit.
"It’s well attended to where they lay the flowers which is nice.
"Sometimes some of her old mates come and sit around the tree drinking vodka which is a nice thing for them to do."
Dozens of Instagrammers have posed next to the house, with one declaring: "This is my Graceland."
In scenes witnessed by The Sun many were seen pausing to read the tributes tied to the tree and get a picture of themselves outside the house.
Karla Gongora and Carlos Espinosa, both 30, were on holiday from Mexico.
Karla said: "We are on holiday and visiting Camden market and saw the statue of Amy, and wondered where she lived.
"We were going back to Soho which is where we are staying, but we had some time so googled where her house was and came along to have a look.
"We thought her house might be a museum or something, and we wondered if her father might still live here.
"We were big fans of her and her music."
Sarah Mattheson, 28, had come along to visit from Finsbury Park, she said: "I have been watching her and listening to her for years.
"I used to go and watch her play, her music will live on forever.
"It’s the first time I have visited here, I just wanted to come and see where she lived.
"I haven’t been to any of her other houses yet.
"It’s so quiet here today which is great, I expected it to be busier."
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Recently the address has been blurred out on Google Street View – which can be requested by residents for security reasons.
The owners of the home declined to comment.
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