re - Thomas Kincade: I do NOT think it's okay to dance on somebody's grave just because

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23. Yes, crimes.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/mar/25/arts.artsnews

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But now the world has grown even more "unsympathetic and complex" for the artist, who describes himself as a devout Christian and has trademarked his "Painter of Light" soubriquet. In court documents and other testimony, he has been accused of sexual harassment, fraudulent business practices and bizarre incidents of drunkenness including a habit of "ritual territory marking" that involves urinating in public places.

A court-appointed arbitration panel has ruled in favour of two former owners of Kinkade-branded galleries, ordering his company to pay them $860,000 (£500,000) for breaching "the covenant of good faith and dealing" and failing to disclose pertinent business information.

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Kinkade won two other claims, but six more are pending, including one from a Michigan man who says he lost $3m in assets, along with his marriage and most of his possessions, after the galleries he owned went broke. Other former employees and associates of the artist - in court testimony and in interviews with the Los Angeles Times - recounted how he had fondled a woman's breasts at a company event, and lashed out at an ex-colleague's wife who tried to help him when he fell from a bar stool.

Two former employees, Terry Sheppard and John Dandois, told the panel of further examples of Kinkade's unpredictable behaviour: bringing disorder to a Las Vegas performance by the illusionists Siegfried and Roy by repeatedly yelling the word "codpiece" from his audience seat, and urinating in public - in an elevator and on a model of Winnie the Pooh at a Disneyland hotel. "This one's for you, Walt," Mr Sheppard claimed the artist said as he did so.

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