Thomas Kinkade heckled Siegfried and Roy, marks territory

Thomas Kinkade is the artist who makes megabucks selling heartwarming scenes of lighthouses and cottages.

According to a new lawsuit, he also has a dark side:

...In sworn testimony and interviews, they recount incidents in which an allegedly drunken Kinkade heckled illusionists Siegfried & Roy in Las Vegas, cursed a former employee's wife who came to his aid when he fell off a barstool, and palmed a startled woman's breasts at a signing party in South Bend, Ind.

And then there is Kinkade's proclivity for "ritual territory marking," as he called it, which allegedly manifested itself in the late 1990s outside the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim.

"This one's for you, Walt," the artist quipped late one night as he urinated on a Winnie the Pooh figure, said Terry Sheppard, a former vice president for Kinkade's company, in an interview...

Who among us hasn't done the same things?

Miscellania · Sun, 03/05/2006 - 13:38 · · Importance: 1

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