Q: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Thomas Kinkade’s girlfriend said Monday the world-famous 54-year-old artist “died in his sleep, very happy, in the house he built, with the paintings he loved, and the woman he loved.” 
  
 Amy Pinto, in tears, told a reporter through an intercom outside the gate at the Monte Sereno home that Kinkade died Friday morning peacefully but she offered few details. 
  
 The two had been dating for the past 18 months, Pinto said, about six months after his wife, Nanette, filed for legal separation. Nanette and the couple’s two teenage daughters were in Australia at the time of his death. 
  
 The Santa Clara County Coroner’s Office said an autopsy was performed Monday on Kinkade but the cause of death might not be determined for months. Results of toxicology and other tests could take 12 to 20 weeks, because of a backup at the county lab. 
  
 “The fact that he’s famous has nothing to do with the toxicology turnaround time,” said a spokeswoman from the coroner’s office who didn’t want her name used. 
  
 In recent years, bouts with alcohol and bankruptcy painted a darker image of the man who described himself as the “painter of light.” 
  
 He was known for his paintings of bucolic pastoral scenes and charming cottages, candlelit images made into calendars and decorative plates that are said to fill one in 20 homes in California. Although the fine-art world often derided his work as tacky, mainstream Americans flocked to his paintings. 
  
 Kinkade created several hundred Thomas Kinkade Signature Galleries to sell his work. In 2010, the recession took its toll and his Morgan Hill art company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, listing nearly $6.2 million in creditors’ claims. 
  
 On Monday, the CEO of Kinkade’s galleries said in a statement they were overwhelmed by the “outpouring of appreciation and interest in Thom’s work.” 
  
 “He strived to make his paintings available and affordable to the public and his collectors,” John Hasting, CEO of The Thomas Kinkade Co., said Monday. “In his honor, we will continue his legacy and do what we can to carry on. The man is already greatly missed by the Kinkade extended family, but we want everyone to know that the galleries will remain open and his images will continue to be marketed worldwide, just as he would have wanted it.” 
  
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A:
Earlier this week, Thomas Kinkade's girlfriend told the San Jose Mercury News that the artist "died in his sleep, very happy, in the house he built, with the paintings he loved, and the woman he loved." But another depressing article in The Daily paints a very different picture: When that same girlfriend, Amy Pinto, called 911 on the morning Kinkade died, she apparently told the dispatchers Kinkade had been drinking. "Apparently he has been drinking all night and not moving," the dispatcher says on the recording. And Kinkade's relationship with Pinto was also seemingly troubled: Los Gatos police confirmed they had responded "a couple" of times to Kinkade's home, and a neighbor says those calls involved domestic disputes. "They'd get into some nasty fights," he says. The Mercury News notes Kinkade and Pinto started dating six months after Kinkade's wife Nanette filed for legal separation and had been together about a year and a half. Click for more on Kinkade's troubled final years.