Holocaust memoir fabulist Herman Rosenblat's publisher demanded their money back after they found out his book was a hoax. Here are the documents.

Ken Brown, an Illinois Goldman Sachs shareholder, filed this complaint against the company in New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan in January.

Angry, angry billionaire Ron Perelman gave Ellen Barkin many millions of dollars when they divorced, but he refused to fund her film production company. So she sued him. And won! Party at Ellen's! Bring your unproduced screenplay!

Here are the best bits from former NBC News reporter Irving R. Levine's FBI file, which tells the story of the KGB's attempt to recruit him as a spy and the FBI's detailed surveillance on his personal affairs.

In which we discover the identity of the mysterious fourth person banned from Sarah Palin's book tour, and that Todd was in charge of enforcing the "no entry" list.

The files released by the FBI today relating to Michael Jackson don't appear to contain too much new information, but they do reveal the extent to which the feds helped Santa Barbara prosecutors go after him for child molestation.

New York Post television critic Linda Stasi is suing the City of New York because she tripped on a police barricade one night in 2005. Here is the complaint, the notice of claim, and the notice of jury trial.

Here is the full complaint from Firas Al-Qaisi, who risked his life and was tortured for assisting the U.S. military in Iraq and now accuses the U.S. of trying to kill him.

How the Salahis begged for State Dinner tickets: ABC News has the complete email correspondence

Below, find the initial complaint in the federal class-action suit against online gaming company Zynga and social network Facebook, alleging the companies are liable for the scammy actions of their advertisers.

Here in full color is the state of diversity among Hollywood's writers ranks. Taken from the Writers Report 2009.

Former New York Post editor Sandra Guzman filed this complaint against the Post and its editor Col Allan yesterday in federal court.

In 1995, Nidal Malik Hasan applied for a permit to carry a concealed handgun in Virginia. Here is the entire application and related documents, obtained by Gawker from the Roanoke County Circuit Court.

The world owes a great debt to these documents.

Below is some of the email exchanges beween Balloon Boy father Richard Heene and his sometime professional collaborator Robert Thomas.

Below is a proposal drawn up by Robert Thomas on behalf of his friend, collaborator and sometime employer Richard Heene, father of Balloon Boy. Heene was trying to sell a reality science series to the producers of Wife Swap after he appeared on the show.

A Connecticut judge has unsealed the applications for search warrants for Joe Halderman, who is accused of attempting to extort David Letterman out of $2 million. Read the warrant for Halderman's house here, and for his car here.

The application for a search warrant for accused Letterman extortionist Joe Halderman's car.

The application for a search warrant for accused Letterman extortionist Joe Halderman's house.

Last month, we found out the FBI destroyed a file on Walter Cronkite despite its obligation to retain historically significant records. Gawker has learned that the file involved an extortion investigation. What is it with CBS luminaries and extortion, anyway?