You won't believe how much Judge Judy gets paid!

Judge Judy – Judy Sheindlin – has been earning a whopping $62m annually for the last few years.

That means the cranky TV judge host earns around $1.2m a week, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

This figures were revealed in a reported breach of contract lawsuit, which was filed by CBS, and Rebel Entertainment Partners claim that salary is being unfairly deducted from gross profits.

“Defendants agreed to pay Scheindlin an upfront salary that is far in excess of any person in non-scripted television, and then included that fee in the Show’s production expenses, thereby preventing Rebel from receiving any back end compensation,” writes Rebel Entertainment Partners attorney Bryan J. Freedman.

Rebel is the successor-in-interest to the talent agency that packaged Judge Judy and is due a fee of 5 percent of the net profits per an August 1995 agreement, according to the complaint. Under the agreement, Big Ticket, a division of CBS, can deduct direct out-of-pocket production and distribution costs.

Judge Judy responded with a statement to The Hollywood Reporter,

“The fact that Richard Lawrence [President of Rebel] is complaining about my salary is actually hilarious,” she said.

“I met Mr. Lawrence for 2 hours some twenty-one years ago. Neither I nor anyone involved in the day-to-day production of my program has heard from him in 20 years. Not a card, not a gift, not a flower, not a congratulations. Yet he has somehow received over $17,000,000 from my program. My rudimentary math translates that into $8,500,000 an hour for Mr. Lawrence. Not a bad payday. Now complaining about not getting enough money, that’s real chutzpah!”

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