For more than two decades, Judy Sheindlin — known to her adoring audience as Judge Judy — delivered famously withering verdicts from the bench in her daytime TV show of the same name. Although Judge Judy was encased in courtroom-esque fiction and the disputes on the show were not decided in a real court of law, Sheindlin is a real judge, and she made real money for her sharp-tongued legal smackdowns — a lot of it.