Profit Dispute of 'Judge Judy' Gets Settled

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.

Published: Thursday,Feb 06, 2020 16:51 PM GMT-07:00

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A long-running and rather stretched 2016 case has now been settled.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, 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.

The parties on Wednesday informed the court that they reached a settlement with the help of a mediator and the agreement has been signed.

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