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Meet Judge Judy Sheindlin, Accidental Celebrity Paid $45M to Work 52 Days a Year

Source: ABA Journal Top Stories
When Judith Sheindlin agreed in 1993 to allow a reporter for the Los Angeles Times to sit quietly in the back of the New York courtroom in which she worked as a $120,000-a-year judge on family law matters, she thought he planned to report on a case. Instead, he profiled the hardworking, no-nonsense “Judge Judy” who is now a household name among daytime television watchers who tune in to see her tell it like it is to those who appear before her. The LA Times piece led to a 60 Minutes interview, and Hollywood offers soon followed. Today, in her…
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