Amy Winehouse risks arrest over alleged headbutting

Singer accused of assault in London street

Thursday, 24 April 2008

British police have confirmed to PEOPLE that they are investigating claims that Amy Winehouse attacked a man in a London street early Wednesday morning.

"Police are investigating an alleged assault on Chalk Farm Road at approximately 3:20 am on April 23," says a Metropolitan Police spokesman. "A 38-year-old man [contacted] Kentish Town police station and alleged a 24-year-old woman had assaulted him. No arrests have been made as yet but inquiries continue."

Winehouse, 24, was alleged to have headbutted a man outside of a bar who tried to hail her a taxi, according to a detailed account in The Sun. The article is accompanied by a slideshow sequence of photos which include one of the "Rehab" singer walking into a lamppost.

The singer, who has battled alcohol abuse and drug issues both before and during the incarceration of her 26-year-old husband Blake Fielder-Civil over claims of witness tampering, started the session on Tuesday afternoon and continued on until early Wednesday morning.

The Sun claims Winehouse attacked two men, kissed another, trashed a bar and smoked drugs on a sidewalk.

A call to Winehouse's London rep was not immediately returned.

The incident, described by the paper as her "most depraved night yet," is the latest in a long list of events involving the talented but troubled Winehouse, who entered rehab in January and won a gaggle of Grammys in February.

Last August she was hospitalized in London for what her rep called "exhaustion", however her father Mitch recently revealed that she in fact had a seizure brought on by drugs.

Pete Norman

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