‘Judge Judy’ Sues Parent of Tabloid for Defamation

“Judge Judy” Sheindlin has filed a lawsuit against the parent company of the National Enquirer and InTouch Weekly for a story alleging she was trying to help the Menendez brothers get a new trial decades after they were convicted of murdering their parents. On April 10, InTouch Weekly published the story on its website with the headline “Inside Judge Judy’s Quest to Save the Menendez Brothers Nearly 35 Years After Their Parents’ Murder,” according to the lawsuit filed in circuit court in Collier County, Florida. Later, a version of the story was published in the National Enquirer, a sister publication to InTouch Weekly. Both of the publications are owned by Accelerate360 Media. The 1989 Menendez murders in Beverly Hills, California, became tabloid fodder as the brothers’ trials unfolded over cable TV....