The retro-soul singer Amy Winehouse was charged with assault Thursday, after having just returned to the U.K. on Sunday after vacationing in the Caribbean for two months, for allegedly attacking a fan at an end-of-summer ball in London on Sept. 26, police and the singer's representative said.

The assaulted fan has been quoted in tabloids saying that she'd been hit in the eye after asking to take Winehouse's picture. The singer turned herself in at a police station yesterday, where she was charged and released. A spokesman for the 25-year-old Winehouse said in a statement that she "voluntarily attended a police station in London yesterday morning. She was questioned by appointment in relation to an accusation made after the Berkeley Ball last year. She was charged with common assault and will attend a court hearing in the coming weeks." She is scheduled to appear at City of Westminster Magistrates' Court on March 17.

Ms Winehouse sang at the End of Summer Ball, a £700-a-ticket fundraising event in aid of the Prince's Trust charity. Amy Winehouse made her return to London's social scene Thursday night, attending a Ray-Bans party at Selfridges.

The singer recently moved from Camden, north London, to Hadley Wood in Enfield, north London. Winehouse has allegedly struggled with a drug habit, while her husband Blake Fielder-Civil has sought divorce on the grounds of her adultery, his lawyer said in January. She won five Grammy awards for her 2006 album “Back to Black.”