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Tolle has stated that he has been able to detach from his own ego. I can't link to a quote as I'm paraphrasing from memory of one of the recent Oprah class audio downloads. He said something like he "left his ego behind". It seems that this really works for him, and is in keeping with his spiritual/physical alignment.
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This really isn't accurate.
Oprah asked Tolle, "So you have no ego?" and he said, "I don't think in those terms - if I were to start thinking of myself as a person with no ego, that would just be another false role that blocks my awareness from who I truly am."
When Tolle says, "My ego died," he means it in the same weak sense as when Steve Pavlina says, "How to win every argument." It's just a verbal shortcut and not specifically true - you can't take it at face value.
You don't kill your ego just like you don't win an argument.
All you do is become aware of the ego so that now you are the master rather than the slave. You make it conscious so that it works for you rather than working on you.
You do the same thing with the intellect - intelligence is a wonderful thing, but it should be the slave not the master.
It's just like using both subjective reality and objective reality at the same time. You make the beliefs work _for_ you, you don't let the beliefs constrain you. By becoming aware of the ego in all it's forms, you automatically are making it work for you rather than having it constrain you.
Awareness is the alpha and the omega.