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Amy Winehouse died of bulimia, not drugs or alcohol, says her brother

While the “Amy Winehouse: A Family Portrait” exhibit, opening soon at London’s Jewish Museum, will show the public a different version of the singer’s life than the one we saw in the tabloids, her brother has just come forward with a new angle on how she died.

Amy Winehouse, British singer, 27

Amy Winehouse, the talented but troubled chanteuse, was found dead in her north London flat on July 23. She was 27.

Mourning Amy Winehouse: A biblical vixen goes back to black

Late last year, I spent the better part of a month working on a lengthy profile on Amy Winehouse, the British Jewish retro soul singer who tragically died over the weekend at 27. It was in the doldrums of this process, which included reading a book about Jewish immigrants who perform in blackface in the early 20th century and researching the bizarre music producer Phil Spector, one of her primary musical influences — that I was forced to ask myself: Why do I like Amy Winehouse so much?

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