Ayn Rand's heir kept the first and last pages of The Fountainhead manuscript; the Library of Congress took them from his home in January 2002

Ayn Rand died in 1982 and left her papers and estate to Leonard Peikoff, who as executor controls the copyrights to all her works except Anthem. Peikoff says she told him to "do with them whatever you want." In the 1960s the Library of Congress had asked her to will it her manuscripts, but she never completed the form and her will did not include them. In July 1991 Peikoff had the manuscripts of her four novels sent to the Library, valued at slightly under $1 million. He kept the first and last pages of The Fountainhead and sent photocopies. He framed the originals at home. In an August 1998 Los Angeles Times Magazine interview he joked that he had "stolen" them. The Library demanded the pages as government property. In October 2000, by his own account, the Justice Department filed a complaint and threatened a suit for $1.1 million^†. On 15 January 2002 a Library conservator removed the pages from his home. Separately, in 1989 Peikoff declared David Kelley not a genuine Objectivist, and Kelley left to found a rival institute in 1990.