Brother: Kinkade relapsed into alcoholism

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(04-13) 06:26 PDT MONTE SERENO, Calif. (AP) --

A family member says painter Thomas Kinkade battled alcoholism over the past several years and had a relapse just before his death at his home in Santa Clara County.

Kinkade's brother, Patrick, tells the San Jose Mercury News (http://bit.ly/IxRfr0) decades of attacks on Kinkade's work and a split with his wife two years ago had taken a toll on the famous "Painter of Light."

Kinkade died in Monte Sereno on April 6 at age 54 of what a spokesman has said was natural causes. An autopsy is pending.

A recording of a dispatcher involved in the response to his home says Kinkade had been drinking all night and was not moving.



Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/04/13/state/n062646D93.DTL

[Hissyspit]

1. "decades of attacks on Kinkade's work ... had taken a toll"

So the lawsuits had nothing to do with it?

[cthulu2016]

2. Oh, if only I hadn't criticized his horrible work!

It's all my fault.

[Mz Pip]

3. Autopsy still pending?

He's been dead for a week. The body is going to start to stink as much as his paintings.

[Cirque du So-What]

4. I thought his brother's name was Reuben

You know, ex-manager for the Partridge Family who became a 'painter of stuff'?

http://www.robertniles.com/kinkade/

[Liberal_in_LA]

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