Culture Club

Leonore Carol "Lee" Israel (December 3, 1939 – December 24, 2014) was an American author, who is known for literary forgery. Israel is best remembered for her criminal enterprises.[4] By 1992, her career as a writer of books and magazine articles had ended. She had tried and failed to support herself with wage labor.[7]:21 To make money, she began forging a number of letters (estimated to total more than 400) by deceased writers and actors. Later, she began stealing actual letters and autographed papers of famous persons from libraries and archives, replacing them with forged copies she had made. She sold both forged works and stolen originals.