Gawker Media’s new owner, Univision, has removed previously published posts on Gawker sites Deadspin, Gizmodo and Jezebel that relate to the company’s legal issues.

Gawker Media executive editor John Cook said in a memo to staff that Univision execs Felipe Holguin and Jay Grant suggested deleting seven posts because they were “under active litigation against Gawker Media” and that Univision subsidiary, Unimoda, “had been authorized only to purchase the assets, and not the liabilities, of the company.”

“Unimoda’s legal analysis was that the continued publication of the posts under the new entity would constitute the adoption of liability, and that Unimoda is therefore obligated to delete them,” Cook wrote.

Cook said he voted to keep the seven posts in question online, but that Univision executives chose to remove six of them. The one that remains for the time being contains a photo that is the subject of a copyright complaint. That ruling might change in the future after it undergoes further legal analysis.

“At this time of transition, the decision was based on a desire to have a clean slate as we look to support and grow the editorial missions of the acquired brands,” Univision said in a statement.

Univision clearly wants to steer far away from the legal problems that came with Gawker Media when Univision bought it in August for $135 million. Among the deleted posts are several involving a man named Shiva Ayyadurai who claims to have invented email, and filed a lawsuit against Gawker earlier this year.

Gawker Media shut down its flagship site, Gawker, after Hulk Hogan, backed by billionaire Peter Thiel, filed an invasion-of-privacy suit over the site’s posting of a video of Hogan having sex. Hogan won a $140 million judgement, which led to Gawker Media’s sale.

Nick Denton’s Gawker.com is closing after parent company Gawker Media was purchased by Univision. While fans mourn the loss of their favorite gossip site, several past victims are probably celebrating.

Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel forced Gawker into bankruptcy when he financed Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against the site because he was angry Gawker outed him as gay. Thiel is obviously happy Gawker is closing, but he’s not alone.

Hulk Hogan was awarded a $140 judgement when he sued Gawker for invasion of privacy after it published portions of a sex tape. The former wrestler has already celebrated on Twitter.

In 2008 Gawker published a creepy Scientology recruitment video featuring Tom Cruise that showed a side of the actor most fans didn’t know existed.

Jimmy Kimmel got upset in 2007 when Gawker added a “Gawker Stalker” map that updated celebrity sightings in real time.

Friends of former Toronto mayor Rob Ford are probably happy Gawker is going dark. Ford died of cancer five months ago, but Gawker famously exposed him smoking crack.

In 2010, the site published an anonymous account of a one-night stand with conservative Tea Party activist Christine O’Donnell. She was not happy and the site also published her response.

Gawker published, and then removed, a post about a married Conde Nast executive planning a rendezvous with a gay porn star in Chicago. Somewhere, this man is smiling.

Tommy Craggs, former executive editor of Gawker Media, and Max Read, the ex-editor-in-chief of Gawker.com quit their jobs because of they didn’t agree with the decision to remove the Conde Nast story. They probably don’t like to see their former home go dark, but they can smile that they got out before the end.

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While fans mourn the loss of their favorite gossip site, several past victims are probably thrilled

Nick Denton’s Gawker.com is closing after parent company Gawker Media was purchased by Univision. While fans mourn the loss of their favorite gossip site, several past victims are probably celebrating.

While fans mourn the loss of their favorite gossip site, several past victims are probably thrilled

Nick Denton’s Gawker.com is closing after parent company Gawker Media was purchased by Univision. While fans mourn the loss of their favorite gossip site, several past victims are probably celebrating.