https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/judge-judy-profits-fight-settles-1276923
This was over royalties CBS and Judge Judy contract.
This was over royalties CBS and Judge Judy contract.
A 2016 dispute that included a complaint about Judy Sheindlin's $47 million salary has been resolved by a mediator.
Judge Judy has been presiding over disputes on television for two decades, but a fight over profits from the hit series has quietly settled behind closed doors.
Rebel Entertainment Partners in March 2016 sued Big Ticket Entertainment, a division of CBS, claiming that Judy Sheindlin's $47 million salary was improperly being deducted as an expense and therefore denying the company its cut of the profits. Rebel, which is the successor in interest to the talent agency that packaged the series, also claimed it was unfairly shut out of a spinoff series called Hot Bench.
L.A. County Superior Court Judge Joanne O'Donnell in 2018 found nothing wrong with Sheindlin's massive salary or its placement in the budget and dismissed that claim, but she wasn't convinced of CBS' claim that Hot Bench wasn't really a spinoff.