Judge Jails Amy Winehouse's Drug Dealer

A British man who secretly taped the singer getting high at a party earlier this year has been sentenced to prison

By Josh Grossberg Dec 12, 2008 8:17 PMTags
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Blake Incarcerated could be getting a jail buddy.

A London judge on Friday sentenced Johnny Blagrove, the man who sold a disturbing video to The Sun tabloid apparently showing Amy Winehouse using drugs, to two years behind bars.

The 34-year-old dealer was sent to the clink after pleading guilty to two counts of offering to supply illicit substances, specifically cocaine and Ecstasy, to the "Rehab" belter and other celebrities. His girlfriend, 22-year-old Cara Burton, copped to two counts of offering to supply methamphetamine, but she was let off the hook with two years' community service.

Judge Tudor Owen said the duo could have faced much harsher penalties had prosecutors had evidence showing the couple actually gave Winehouse drugs. Instead, the couple merely profited off the secretly taped footage, showing Winehouse toking from a pipe and snorting some substance, which The Sun purchased for $75,000.

"A more public-spirited person would have handed it to the police, rather than making money from it," the judge said. "But it would be quite wrong to punish him for that.

"Notwithstanding what is clearly visible in the video, there is no evidence of drugs being supplied or even used."

After being called in to a local police station, Winehouse admitted taking the drugs, but no charges were ever filed against her.

Police eventually raided the duo's residence and reportedly found a "hit list" of stars for whom they regularly furnish the illegal substances. Those names have not been released.

Winehouse, meanwhile, has been receiving treatment in a hospital for a bad reaction to medication. Her husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, who has publicly blamed himself for her sobriety issues, was sent back to prison last week after failing a drug test and violating his parole in an assault case.