It was about this time, in 2006, when aggrieved ex-employees began testifying in court cases about Kinkade's odd, "Jekyll-and-Hyde" personal behavior, rivetingly documented by the Los Angeles Times. Once, Kinkade allegedly heckled Siegfried & Roy during a drunken binge in Las Vegas. "I think it was Roy or Siegfried or whatever had a codpiece in his leotards," one former Kinkade employee testified. "And so when the show started, Thom just started yelling, 'Codpiece, codpiece,' and had to be quieted by his mother and [wife] Nanette." (Picture our hero surrounded by menacing, Creamsicle-colored cats and two whip-wielding Spandex devils. Title: "Lion's Den.")
He allegedly flipped off a colleague's wife who tried to help him when he fell off a bar stool drunk, and "palmed" a woman's breast at a publicity event in Indiana while saying "these are great tits!" And then there was the time he supposedly relieved himself on a Winnie the Pooh statue in a Disney hotel in Anaheim, Calif., while saying, "This one's for you, Walt." (Imagine Ashdown Forest at daybreak, and Winnie is drenched from a spontaneous shower; Tigger, Eeyore flee in terror. Title: "Golden Moments.") When asked about this last story, Kinkade conceded in testimony that "there may have been some ritual territory marking going on, but I don't recall it."
