In an absolutely stunning celebrity news item, Amy Winehouse was arrested for marijuana possession Thursday in Norway, police in Bergen confirm.
Authorities, acting on a tip “from a good source,” arrested the 24-year-old singer, husband Blake Fielder-Civil and a male member of her touring party at around 6 p.m. in Bergen’s Radisson SAS Hotel, a police source says.
They found .25 ounces of marijuana in the singer’s room.
The three were held for about 12 hours in separate cells, fined and then released. Winehouse and Fielder-Civil paid a 500 euro ($714) fine.
The member of her touring party, Alexander Foden, who creates hairpieces for Amy Winehouse, paid a 350 euro ($500) penalty.
“She paid the fine and she was released,” a police source was quoted as saying. She and Blake Fielder-Civil were “very cooperative. It’s over.”
The scandal-plagued singer was hospitalized back on August 8 and treated for exhaustion, the start of a roller-coaster ride of canceled commitments.
Heck, even her parents and in-laws have publicly told her to get off drugs.
All of her U.S. appearances have been postponed until 2008.
The arrest also comes after Amy Winehouse had a shaky start to her European tour October 15 in Berlin. She tripped and staggered on stage and forgot the first few lines of the cover she did of “Valerie,” by British band The Zutons.