So, the folks at Amazon understood what the parameters were. It’s been out there for a long time - not by me, but it got out there and had its own life. ( Laughs.) Without giving you specifics, because that’s a little unseemly, my compensation has not been a secret. Nobody says, “Oh, they did that show 27 years.” That’s not a number! Plus, it’s always good to leave everybody wanting a little bit more. That’s also how long Oprah Winfrey did her talk show. Perhaps that’s the reason for ending the show after 25 years. When I’ve had a frustrating day at work, which I do occasionally, it gives me a great deal of pleasure to get out the silver polish and do some frames around the house or find an old pair of earrings and clean them up - even if I never wear them again. At what point in your career did you stop doing that? I once heard you say that you used to clean the bathroom after work to feel like you’d accomplished something. Speaking over the phone in late April - she does not care for Zoom - Sheindlin, THR‘s Unscripted TV Player of the Year, opened up about her thoughts on retirement, the fascination surrounding her public salary and what annoys her most about the American legal system. #MeToo Missed Us: Female Composers Speak Out “So within the confines of me doing what I do, we’ll be changing some of the things around me. “Look, I do what I do,” says Sheindlin, referring to both her person and procedure. There, the onetime Manhattan family court judge wants to assure her loyal viewers, all 10 million who still tune in every Monday through Friday, that she has no intention of reinventing the wheel. She and her gavel return to Los Angeles in late summer to begin production on Judy Justice, an arbitration-based reality show for Amazon’s ad-supported IMDb TV.

At 78, Sheindlin is making the segue to streaming.

Now, after a 25-season run, its final episodes will air this year. Her eponymous syndicated court show made its no-nonsense star, with her eye roll for the ages, a cultural icon and, at a reported $47 million a season, TV’s highest-paid host. Since the final taping of Judge Judy in early April, the prosecutor turned TV personality has been trying her best to relax at the Naples, Florida, home she keeps with her husband, Jerry. Judith Sheindlin has not donned a lace collar or black robe in two weeks.

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