Girlfriend of Thomas Kinkade wants to "redeem her reputation."

http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_20842800/girlfriend-artist-thomas-kinkade-wants-redeem-her-reputation

I have a hint for her. If she wants to redeem her reputation, drop the lawsuit. Otherwise, you are what we think: a gold-digger.

I feel the same way about his wife. What does she care if the woman gets a cut of the bajllions? Unless she's trying to make Kinkade pay for leaving. Clearly, he wasn't doing all that well under the girlfriend's care if he was drinking to that kind of excess. He was a broken man by then. Didn't anyone care about that?

The fight over money is the ugliest of uglies in our world. Money can't make people happy, but it can keep you from thinking about how unhappy you are,so people scramble over it. I just think as an artist, Kinkade just wanted to be loved. Not for what he owned or even his talent, but who he was -- and both these women are acting pretty disgusting in my point of view.

The will is a mess. It looks like a crazed man under the influence wrote it and the fact that she would HAVE him write it at that point, says a lot. I feel sorry for Kinkade because I think we're all getting a taste of what he tried to get away from in life.

This is a man who was famous for his incredible art. What does this will say to you?

The love of money is a curse.

Comments

[Proverbialreads.wordpress.com]

It's hard to say what really went down towards the end of Mr Kinkade's life. However, I'm fairly certain that anything that's supposed to be a will that wasn't witnessed or given to a lawyer before death is going to be viewed suspiciously. It might not be valid at all.

I say, let his children have it and they can decide later in life what to do with everything.

Sally

[Kristin Billerbeck]

True. None of us really knows what goes on in a marriage. The other thing is that wife of his put up with some pretty hard drinking and raising four kids for 30 years. So I'd probably be pretty territorial over the money for my kids at that point.

But I just wonder if the fight is worth it. I think we'll be surprised at the will's validity. I'm sure he wrote it, the question is, could someone on that many drugs/alcohol be of "sound mind" -- his writing doesn't look very sound.

[Tony]

talk is cheap, you always know what a person is like when the money is still sitting on the table. I feel bad for the kids to see everyone squabbling over the money.

[Kristin Billerbeck]

I'm sure those poor kids have been to hell and back. The problem is, once you have money, you think that's what makes you happy, so I hope those kids have discovered what really makes them happy and use the money for that purpose.