Though Judge Judy has been on television since the 90s, she still pulls in one of daytime television’s largest audiences.
As confirmed by Forbes, that payday went on top of the annual $47 million salary Judy Sheindlin gets for hosting her program, which had already solidified her spot as television’s highest-paid television personality.
That’s the kind of show that networks live for, and this one was lucrative enough for CBS to shell out such a massive sum in exchange for the rights to her brand.