Winehouse court order keeps photographers at bay

Amy Winehouse has won a court order banning the paparazzi from coming too close to her London home.

The singerhad the anti-harassment injunction posted outside her home.

The order means photographers are forbidden to follow her or approach her within 100 metres of her home.

All photographers are also prohibited from taking pictures of her in her home or the home of any members of her family or friends, according to the order.

"Every time she got in her car she was chased or was jostled, and it has become unsafe not just for her, but the people around her," a source inside the singer's management team told The Guardian newspaper.

"We don't have the problem with the press doing their job but it has been mayhem a couple of times and Amy had to do something."

The 25-year-old's drug problems have made headlines for a few years now.

She's had public meltdowns and was pictured puffing on what appeared to be a crack pipe last year.

She is also headed to divorce court. Her estranged husband Blake Fielder-Civil recently left prison after being sentenced to 27 months for assaulting a pub landlord and for obstruction of justice.

Winehouserecently collapsed while in the Caribbean island of St. Lucia where reports say she had been partying at all hours.The singer was hospitalized for 24 hours.She's reportedly still there.

Winehouse sought the injunction last month after moving from the north London neighbourhood of Camden to the more quiet Hadley Wood area of Enfield, further north.

Winehouse won Grammy Awards and global acclaim for her 2006 album Back to Black.