Known for movies
Short Info
Net Worth | $47 million, $47 million |
Date Of Birth | October 21, 1942 |
Spouse | Jerry Sheindlin, Ronald Levy, Jerry Sheindlin, Ronald Levy, Jerry Sheindlin, Ronald Levy |
Mark | Quick-speaking Judge & almost as fast as an auctioneer |
Fact | Graduated at American University in Washington, D.C., in 1963. |
Payments | Earned $25,000,000 from Judge Judy (1996) |
Judge Judy Sheindlin, née Judith Susan Blum, is an American lawyer, former judge, television personality, and author. She is the star of the court show Judge Judy, which has been running in syndication since 1996.
Early life and education
Judge Judy was born Judith Susan Blum on October 21, 1942, in Brooklyn, New York, to Ethel (née Feldman) and Murray Blum. She has two older sisters, Ronnie and Marilyn. Judge Judy’s parents divorced when she was young, and she was raised by her mother in Brooklyn.
Judge Judy graduated from James Madison High School in 1960. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from American University in Washington, D.C., in 1964 and a Juris Doctor from New York Law School in 1967.
Career
After law school, Judge Judy worked as a corporate lawyer for a cosmetics company. She then became a prosecutor in the family court system in New York City. In 1982, she was appointed a judge in the criminal court system.
In 1996, Judge Judy began her eponymous television show, which features her adjudicating small claim cases. The show is filmed in Los Angeles and airs in syndication. As of 2019, it is the longest-running court show in television history.
In addition to her work on television, Judge Judy has written several books, including the best-selling Don’t Pee on My Leg and Tell Me It’s Raining (1996) and Keep It Simple, Stupid: You’re Smarter Than You Look (1998).
Judge Judy has been married three times. Her first husband was Ronald Levy, with whom she has two children: Gregory and Nicole. She divorced Levy in 1976 and married Jerry Sheindlin the following year. The couple divorced in 1990 but remarried in 1991. They have one child together, Jonathan. Judge Judy and Jerry Sheindlin divorced again in 1999. She married Fredric Goldman in 2000; the couple has no children together.
Judge Judy has a net worth of $420 million. She is one of the highest-paid television personalities, earning $47 million per year.
Physical Characteristics
Judge Judy is 5 feet 1 inch (1.55 meters) tall and weighs 115 pounds (52 kilograms). She has blue eyes and blonde hair.
General Info
Full Name | Judge Judy |
Net Worth | $47 million, $47 million |
Salary | $45 million per year |
Date Of Birth | October 21, 1942 |
Height | 1.55 m, 1.55 m, 1.55 m |
Profession | TV Personality, Presenter, Lawyer, Author, Judge, TV Personality, Presenter, Lawyer, Author, Judge, TV Personality, Presenter, Lawyer, Author, Judge |
Education | New York Law School, American University, James Madison High School, Washington College of Law, New York Law School, American University, James Madison High School, Washington College of Law, New York Law School, American University, James Madison High School, Washington College of Law |
Nationality | American, American, American |
Family
Spouse | Jerry Sheindlin, Ronald Levy, Jerry Sheindlin, Ronald Levy, Jerry Sheindlin, Ronald Levy |
Children | Jamie Hartwright, Gregory Sheindlin, Nicole Sheindlin, Jonathan Sheindlin, Adam Levy, Jamie Hartwright, Gregory Sheindlin, Nicole Sheindlin, Jonathan Sheindlin, Adam Levy, Jamie Hartwright, Gregory Sheindlin, Nicole Sheindlin, Jonathan Sheindlin, Adam Levy |
Parents | Murray Blum, Ethel Blum, Murray Blum, Ethel Blum, Murray Blum, Ethel Blum |
Siblings | David Blum, David Blum, David Blum |
Accomplishments
Awards | Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Legal/Courtroom Program, Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Legal/Courtroom Program, Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Legal/Courtroom Program |
Nominations | Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Class Series, Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Class Program, 151. Sick and Kicked Out?!; Child Attacked by Out of Control Dog?!; Friends Don't Loan to Friends!, 150. Ex-Lover's Expensive Mistake!; Shoot My Dogs if You See Them!, 149. High at Work... |
TV Shows | Judge Judy, Hot Bench, Judge Judy, Hot Bench |
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Marks
# | Marks / Signs |
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1 | Quick-speaking Judge & almost as fast as an auctioneer |
Salary
Title | Salary |
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Judge Judy (1996) | $47,000,000 (2013-2014) |
Judge Judy (1996) | $25,000,000 |
Quotes
# | Quote |
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1 | [2016, when asked if she would run with Donald Trump as Vice President on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2015)] It would be nice if he had somebody who had good experience with government to act as a running mate. That would seem logical to me, and quite frankly, I don't. I know the family court, and I know my little television courtroom, and I'm too old, and I don't like to work so hard...and it doesn't pay enough. |
2 | [on California's approval of Prop 8, which denies gay marriage] We've got a lot of trouble in this country. We've got a lot of trouble in the world. Why the state should be interested in proscribing the word marriage from two people who love each other, who are responsible, tax-paying, productive people, who have created a family ... why the state would have an interest in proscribing that kind of conduct, I don't understand. I understand the anger about poverty. I understand the anger about AIG. I understand the problem about the banks. I understand the problem about Afghanistan and the Taliban and everything else. But I don't understand the preoccupation with gays being permitted to marry. |
3 | In our country, indigent people are given free legal counsel. That is fine and good, but nowhere in the Constitution does it say that you are entitled to a free ride. |
4 | Lawyers are always asking me if I will cut some slack for their clients. My standard answer is this is not Let's Make a Deal (1963). |
5 | My personal belief is that we have to get kids' attention, and fast. A period on a chilly upstate facility can be a great attitude adjuster. |
Facts
# | Fact |
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1 | Announced on Larry King Live (1985) that she has renewed her contract for her show, Judge Judy (1996), through 2009. [October 2005] |
2 | She and her husband maintain a luxury estate in ultra-rich Greenwich, Connecticut. [May 2007] |
3 | Living, with Jerry Sheindlin, in Naples, Florida. [November 2010] |
4 | Stepmother of Gregory Evrett Sheindlin (born in 1965) and stepmother-in-law of Laurie Gail Pila (born in 1977). She took part in their wedding on May 12, 2012 in New York City. |
5 | Jerry Sheindlin, her husband, is a retired judge, also. |
6 | Often parodied by Amanda Bynes on The Amanda Show (1999). |
7 | In 2007, Forbes Magazine estimated her earnings for the year at $30 million. |
8 | On February 2006, Judy received her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. |
9 | Parodied by Cheri Oteri on Saturday Night Live (1975). |
10 | Ranked #13 by Forbes.com's list of The Richest 20 Women In Entertainment. |
11 | Is the most famous court show judge in television. Where other court shows have ended or failed, Judy's is the only one to last over ten years and still going strong. As a result, her popularity has grown, as well as her large fan base, and Judy has achieved celebrity status. Original The People's Court (1981)'s first judge, Joseph Wapner's was very popular, until Wapner retired, in 1993, lasting at-least eleven years. Wapner then was a temporary animal court Judge, of Animal Court (1998), in 1998. |
12 | Her $100 million, four-year contract, signed in 2004, makes her one of the highest-paid women in television.(Forbes.com). |
13 | Before she had her own show, she was the feature subject of an article in the Los Angeles Times that led to a report widely seen on 60 Minutes (1968). |
14 | Is the best-selling author of 4 books, "Don't Pee on My Leg and Tell Me It's Raining," released in September 1996, "Beauty Fades, Dumb Is Forever," released in January 1999, "Win or Lose By How You Choose," a children's book released in February 2000, and "Keep it Simple, Stupid" released in July 2000. |
15 | Graduated at American University in Washington, D.C., in 1963. |
16 | After 25 years of working as a prosecutor dealing with juvenile delinquents, she retired and began her show, Judge Judy (1996), which debuted in 1996, was slow to start, but became a success. |
17 | Graduated from Madison James High School in Brooklyn at age 17 in just 3 1/2 years and was accepted at Washington University. |
18 | Graduated first in her class from New York Law School. |
19 | Mother of 5 children: Gregory, Jamie Hartwright, Jonathan, Adam Levy and Nicole. Grandmother of, at-least, 11 grandchildren, so far. |
20 | She is a former Manhattan County court judge. |
21 | Father was a dentist. Graduated from New York Law School in 1965. Former cosmetics firm lawyer. She proposed to husband Jerry. She and Jerry performed the marriage ceremonies of all 4 of their married children (one son is still bachelor). She divorced Jerry in 1990, and remarried him a year later, reportedly because she was grieving from her father's death and needed time to herself. |
Pictures
Movies
Writer
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Hot Bench | 2014 | TV Series creator - 2 episodes |
Self
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Judge Judy | 1996-2016 | TV Series | Herself - Judge / Herself - The Judge |
Entertainment Tonight | 2007-2016 | TV Series | Herself / Herself - Hot Bench |
Today | 2016 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
Late Night with Seth Meyers | 2016 | TV Series | Herself |
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | 2016 | TV Series | Herself |
Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres Show | 2007-2016 | TV Series | Herself |
Good Morning America | 2012-2015 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
The Insider | 2007-2015 | TV Series | Herself / Herself - Author, What Would Judge Judy Say |
The Wendy Williams Show | 2014 | TV Series | Herself |
Inside Edition | 2014 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
The Talk | 2010-2014 | TV Series | Herself |
Judge Judy Primetime | 2014 | TV Movie | Herself |
RuPaul's Drag Race | 2014 | TV Series | Herself |
They Came Together | 2014 | Herself (as Judge Judy Sheindlin) | |
Larry King Now | 2012-2013 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
The Dr. Oz Show | 2013 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
The Queen Latifah Show | 2013 | TV Series | Herself |
The Kelly File | 2013 | TV Series | Herself |
Katie | 2012-2013 | TV Series | Herself |
The Jeff Probst Show | 2012 | TV Series | Herself |
CBS News Sunday Morning | 2012 | TV Series documentary | |
Box 23, the Myra Janco Daniels Story | 2012 | Documentary | Story Teller |
Live with Kelly and Michael | 2004-2011 | TV Series | Herself |
Jimmy Kimmel Live! | 2011 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
Larry King Live | 2005-2010 | TV Series | Herself |
The Florence Henderson Show | 2008-2009 | TV Series | Herself |
Web Therapy | 2009 | TV Series | Herself |
Shatner's Raw Nerve | 2008 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
The View | 2004-2008 | TV Series | Herself |
Judge Judy: Justice Served | 2007 | Video | Herself - Judge |
The 61st Annual Tony Awards | 2007 | TV Special | Herself - Interviewee (taped) |
American Idol | 2007 | TV Series | Herself |
Rachael Ray | 2007 | TV Series | Herself |
Forbes 20 Richest Women in Entertainment | 2007 | TV Movie | Herself |
The Tony Danza Show | 2004-2005 | TV Series | Herself |
The Wayne Brady Show | 2003 | TV Series | Herself |
Intimate Portrait | 2001-2003 | TV Series documentary | Herself - Interviewee / Herself |
The 30th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards | 2003 | TV Special | Herself - Presenter |
Celebrity Profile | 2001 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | 1998-2001 | TV Series | Herself |
The Rosie O'Donnell Show | 1998-2000 | TV Series | Herself |
Biography | 2000 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
The Panel | 1999 | TV Series | Herself |
Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon | 1999 | TV Series | Herself |
Hollywood Squares | 1999 | TV Series | Herself |
Most Fascinating Women of 1998 | 1998 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
CHiPs '99 | 1998 | TV Movie | Herself (as Judge Judy Sheindlin) |
Saturday Night Live | 1998 | TV Series | Herself |
Late Night with Conan O'Brien | 1998 | TV Series | Herself |
The Roseanne Show | 1998 | TV Series | Herself |
Archive Footage
Title | Year | Status | Character |
---|---|---|---|
Entertainment Tonight | 2014-2015 | TV Series | Herself |
Inside Edition | 2015 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien | 2009 | TV Series | Herself |
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Cheri Oteri | 2004 | TV Special documentary | Herself (uncredited) |
The Greatest | 2003 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
Awards
Won Awards
Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
---|---|---|---|---|
2016 | Daytime Emmy | Daytime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Legal/Courtroom Program | Judge Judy (1996) |
2013 | Daytime Emmy | Daytime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Legal/Courtroom Program | Judge Judy (1996) |
2006 | Star on the Walk of Fame | Walk of Fame | Television | On 14 February 2006. At 7065 Hollywood Blvd. |
Nominated Awards
Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
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2011 | Daytime Emmy | Daytime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Legal/Courtroom Program | Judge Judy (1996) |
2010 | Daytime Emmy | Daytime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Legal/Courtroom Program | Judge Judy (1996) |
2010 | OFTA Television Award | Online Film & Television Association | Best Host or Panelist in a Non-Fiction Program | Judge Judy (1996) |
2009 | Daytime Emmy | Daytime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Legal/Courtroom Program | Judge Judy (1996) |
2008 | Daytime Emmy | Daytime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Legal/Courtroom Program | Judge Judy (1996) |
2007 | Daytime Emmy | Daytime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Special Class Series | Judge Judy (1996) |
2006 | Daytime Emmy | Daytime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Special Class Series | Judge Judy (1996) |
2005 | Daytime Emmy | Daytime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Special Class Series | Judge Judy (1996) |
2004 | Daytime Emmy | Daytime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Special Class Series | Judge Judy (1996) |
2003 | Daytime Emmy | Daytime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Special Class Series | Judge Judy (1996) |
2002 | Daytime Emmy | Daytime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Special Class Series | Judge Judy (1996) |
2001 | Daytime Emmy | Daytime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Special Class Series | Judge Judy (1996) |
2001 | OFTA Television Award | Online Film & Television Association | Best Host of a Talk or Service Show | Judge Judy (1996) |
2001 | TV Guide Award | TV Guide Awards | Personality of the Year | |
2000 | Daytime Emmy | Daytime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Special Class Series | Judge Judy (1996) |
1999 | Daytime Emmy | Daytime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Special Class Program | Judge Judy (1996) |
1999 | OFTA Television Award | Online Film & Television Association | Best Host of a Talk or Service Show | Judge Judy (1996) |
1998 | Daytime Emmy | Daytime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Special Class Program | Judge Judy (1996) |
Source: IMDb, Wikipedia