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  • 10
    Aug
    2011
    7:47am, EDT

    Bruno Gonzalez / Agencia O Globo via Reuters

    Bags of cocaine that a dealer labeled with a photograph of singer Amy Winehouse are seen at a police station in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on August 9.

    Drug pushers use photo of Amy Winehouse to sell cocaine

    By David R Arnott, NBC News

    Reuters reports that photographs of Amy Winehouse are being used as a form of marketing by Brazilian drug pushers. Several hundred bags of cocaine labeled with a photograph of the late singer and the words "Amy House" were confiscated from a dealer in the Mandela slum of Rio de Janeiro.

    "Since there is so much information in the media that she was a drug user, the traffickers have taken advantage of this" to market their cocaine, Lieutenant Colonel Glaucio Moreira told local media, according to an AFP report.

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    This is what the dregs of society have come up with...

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  • 26
    Jul
    2011
    10:11am, EDT

    Kirsty Wigglesworth / AP

    Two unidentified mourners embrace as they leave Edgwarebury Cemetery, in London, Tuesday July 26, 2011, after attending the funeral of singer Amy Winehouse. The soul diva, who had battled alcohol and drug addiction, was found dead Saturday at her London home. She was 27.

    Mourners at the funeral for Amy Winehouse in London

    The singer's father, Mitch Winehouse, apparently closed the memorial service by saying "good night, my angel, sleep tight" to his daughter. Full story.

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    I know these guys on the amy winehouse funeral. They are Brazilians. They work for a tv show here in Brazil. The blond one is entitled "impostor". He've already been in Michael Jackson's funeral, Oscar, Recording set of Twilight and etc. That is it. Just to let you guys know. Send me an e-mail back  …

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  • 23
    Jul
    2011
    1:10pm, EDT

    Singer Amy Winehouse found dead in London home

    Frantzesco Kangaris / EPA

    British singer songwriter Amy Winehouse performs on stage at the Glastonbury Festival in Somerset, Britain, June 28, 2008. According to media reports Amy Winehouse was found dead at her flat in North London, Britain on July 23.

     Read the full story here and see more images from Winehouse's life here.

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