Kinkade’s reaction to the woman is even more chilling: “Oh, there you go, okay, dear,” he says, barely looking at her. It seems he has heard this before, and it doesn’t even register.

In the 1990s, Thomas Kinkade was the most successful artist of his time. His sentimental, sanitized landscapes full of Christian motifs and storybook cottages, some of which were lit with tiny ...

He makes art critics cringe, but Thomas Kinkade — whose idyllic paintings of storybook cottages and pastoral landscapes glow as if lit from within (some of them literally are, with tiny LEDs ...

Dal Cielo says Pinto, a consultant before she met Kinkade, can afford to pay the rent with her own money, which does not include what Kinkade’s lawyer says is $1 million he gave her before he died.

In the 1990s, Thomas Kinkade was the most successful artist of his time. His sentimental, sanitized landscapes full of Christian motifs and storybook cottages, some of which were lit with tiny LEDs ...