Your Fun Fact of the Day!

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According to Forbes' 20 Richest Women in Entertainment list, Judge Judy, the television judge who signed a four-year, $100 million contract in 2004, makes more per year than all nine Supreme Court justices combined.

Just mull that one over for a while.

Comments

[grumqa.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if that bothers me. I'm not a fan, as I remember her having a sort of arrogance about what she considered common sense that made me want to disagree with her even if I thought she was right. I get nervous when that attitude is celebrated too much. Amplified too much, it can distort in an ugly way.

I guess I can't say I have anything against tv contracts paying that much, either. If that's what the market wants...I don't know much about it. I suppose being the personality behind a show with lots of viewers is worth a lot of money.

But I don't know that I'm all that much in favor of public office paying a lot. It seems like an incentive for miscreancy.

[sarcasma.livejournal.com]

I kind of think it could be worse, yeah. I mean, at least she's actually sitting there judging cases, and she has to go through hair and makeup in order to just basically do her normal job, which kind of sucks. (Although I'm sure she wouldn't do it if she didn't enjoy it, and the money. I'm just saying.)

My father worships her a little bit these days (the things that happen to a person on retirement, I SWEAR) which is creepier than whose salary hers is higher than by a long shot, I think.