Judge Judy’s Husband Jerry Sheindlin: His Romance and Why His Previous Two Marriages Were Over

• Judy Sheindlin is a television personality and family court judge best known for her hit show. judge judy.
• She is married to author Jerry Sheindlin.
• Judy was previously married to promoter Ronald Levy.
• The latest episode of judge judy aired in July 2021, however, his new show, judy justicedebuted in November.

television personality Judy Sheindlin, 80, has been a household name for more than two decades. Many of her know her from her hit reality show, judge judy, which premiered in September 1996. The New York native graduated from New York Law School in 1965, but didn’t become a TV sensation until she was 54! Today fans can see Judy in her new show, judy justice, which premiered in November 2021, after judge judy it ended that July. Amidst her continued success, below is a closer look at Judy’s three marriages, two of them to her longtime love, jerry sheindlin89.

Judy Sheindlin’s husband, Jerry Sheindlin

The family court judge has been married to her now husband, Jerry, for more than 40 years when they wed in 1977. Though neither have any social media accounts, Judy has spoken out about her husband in interviews during her career. In particular, the time of her in judge judy it came nearly two decades after she and Jerry had first married.

In a 2020 interview on to Ellen DeGeneres ShowJudy revealed what she got from Jerry for her 85th birthday. “I didn’t know what to get her for his 85th birthday,” she said. Ellen Degeneres at the moment. “And I thought, what better gift could there be for someone at 85 than a motorcycle?” Jerry, who was noticeably in the audience, confirmed that his wife had given him a Harley Davidson tricycle. The gift, as Judy explained, was worth $40,000, which she jokingly called a “pretty good” price.

Divorce

Judy and Jerry’s marriage was not always perfect, as the couple divorced in 1990, shortly after Judy’s father died of AND! News. Jerry explained what happened with quitting in the 2020 book, What makes a marriage last. “She told me, ‘If you can’t handle it, I’m going to divorce you,'” she told the authors. marlo thomas AND Phil Donahue at the moment. “And I said, ‘Oh yeah? Dare.’ And the next day they gave me divorce papers. In the next day. So that was the end of it.”

Jerry, a retired New York Supreme Court judge, and his wife were divorced for just a year and remarried in 1991. He even joked about how they met in a bar during a 1999 interview with the Los Angeles Times. “I just got involved in a murder case as a defense attorney,” Jerry said. “She was a promoter. There was a reporter from New York mail there at the bar, and I was talking to him about the case. Judy came in and she put her finger in my face and said, ‘And who is she?’ I said, ‘Lady, take your finger off my face.’ We’ve been together ever since.”

Her first husband, Ronald Levy

Before Jerry, Judy was married to a prosecutor. ronaldo levy for 12 years. The former couple married in 1964, however, they separated in 1976. Judy has even opened up to Fox News in 2017 on her first husband. “My first husband is a lovely, lovely man, but he’s always seen my work as a hobby and there has come a time where that has bothered me,” she told the outlet, via the sun of the united states. “I was 20, almost 21. Then I became a mother… All my friends were getting married, there were still those pressures even in those years”.

Judy’s children

As Judy revealed during the interview, she became a mother at age 20 when she and Ronald welcomed their first child, Jamesin 1966, and later, the former couple had a son, Jamesin 1968. After they divorced and Judy married Jerry, she officially became stepmother to their three children: Nicholas55, Jonathan56, and Gregory, 59. Nicole and Gregory went to law school, while Jonathan forged his own path and became a doctor. Judy is a proud grandmother to 13 grandchildren.

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