Thomas Kinkade's Wife, Widow Fight Over Estate

CALIFORNIA- The battle is brewing over the estate of Thomas Kinkade. The painter's girlfriend, Amy Pinto-Walsh, was in a Santa Clara County Court Tuesday.

According to the San Jose Mercury News, she had "barely legible, handwritten notes" from Kinkade claiming to "giving her the keys to his Monte Sereno mansion and $10 million to establish a museum of his original paintings there."

Kinkade's wife, Nanette, has been fighting Pinto-Walsh, claiming in court documents that the girlfriend was a gold-digger intent on fleecing the estate, reported the San Jose Mercury News.

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