Judge Judy Says She’ll Eat Her Contract On TV If New Lawsuit Is Found To Hold Legal Water

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Judge Judy Sheindlin says she’ll eat a contract on national TV if it’s determined a new lawsuit against her and ViacomCBS holds any legal water, according to Fox Business.

“I have not seen the complaint and can therefore only comment on what I have read which suggests that I am being sued for ‘breach of contract,’” Sheindlin told Fox Business in a statement.

“If that is the basis of Mr. Lawrence’s lawsuit, here is my challenge: If Mr. Lawrence can produce a contract, signed by me and Mr. Lawrence on the same page, at any time in history from the beginning of time, I will toast that contract, smear it with cream cheese and eat it on national television.”

“Disgraced media mogul Les Moonves may have been shown the door at CBS in 2018, but not before he conspired with other CBS executives, including former CBS programming chief Armando Nuñez, to avoid embarrassment over his colossal mismanagement of the sale and repurchase of the back-episode catalog for the Judge Judy television program,” the outlet reports, citing the breach of contract complaint filed Tuesday.

“In 2015, Moonves and his loyal lieutenant Nuñez seriously underestimated the value of the episode library and sold the rights to these episodes to series star Judith Sheindlin for a song,” the filing adds.

“But through all of this industry intrigue and deception, both CBS and Sheindlin lost sight of one important group of people: the Judge Judy profit participants,” the suit adds.

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The 77-year-old TV personality is the subject of another lawsuit by Rebel Entertainment Partners to the tune of roughly $5 million over claims that disgraced former CBS boss, Les Moonves, did some corporate sleight-of-hand to avoid answering to the network’s Board of Directors that resulted in it not getting the money it believes it’s owed. The lawsuit was brought by talent agent Richard Lawrence and his Abrams, Rubaloff & Lawrence firm, which is working with Rebel.

The complaint alleges that Moonves tried to “pull a fast one” on the CBS Board by requiring Board approval for any purchase of $100 million or more. They then paid Sheindlin an estimated $95 million in an alleged effort to avoid answering for the initial flub. Rebel Entertainment Partners stands to make 5% of any profits made from “Judge Judy” and therefore feels entitled to roughly $5 million from that deal.

The lawsuit comes months after Sheindlin announced that she’s ending the show after 25 years when her contract runs out in 2021.