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Judge Jerry Sheindlin's wife, Judge Judy, has a brand-new nice little place. The queen of the small screen built herself a stone castle maybe two bidets smaller than Buckingham Palace. Turrets, hand-forged iron gates, it lacks only a moat.
The compound includes the guardhouse plus guesthouse, pool house, four-car garage, staff quarters, five acres of gardens with fountains, statues, benches, urns and a pond featuring enough koi or carp or flounder to feed the first seating at Le Bernardin.
Give or take a roll of Charmin, it's 13 bathrooms with gold-plated fixtures, three floors, 24,000 square feet, eight bedrooms, including a "snoring room" off the 75-by-42 master suite (should Jerry get noisy), 10 hand-carved marble working fireplaces, 26-foot-high ceilings, a conservatory without which no house should be and, says decorator Martin Kuckly: "I did a hotel in Nantucket that's smaller."
Builder Mark Mariani calls the kitchen area/family room the largest in the state of Connecticut. It seats 40. Its fixture is a 1920s, 14-foot bronze job found in an antique shop in Stamford. The thing had to be disassembled, trucked in and took days to get hung.
Judyville includes a red plush fully equipped theater with 50 seats, candy concession stand and popcorn machine. At another end, a wine cellar. The Plaza doesn't have such a wine cellar. Also a heated pool and spa and massage room. Also playroom with pool table, pingpong table, etc. Also large state-of-the-art gym with enough gear to sprain ligaments you never knew you had. Also for Judy personally - who's size 2 and, even standing on her IRS forms, only 5-ish feet tall - an enormous custom tub hand-carved from Rosa Aurora stone in Portugal. Says Mark Mariani: "I put in a small drain so we don't lose her."
The main house uses 500 light bulbs....
Judge Jerry Sheindlin's wife, Judge Judy, has a brand-new nice little place. The queen of the small screen built herself a stone castle maybe two bidets smaller than Buckingham Palace. Turrets, hand-forged iron gates, it lacks only a moat.
The compound includes the guardhouse plus guesthouse, pool house, four-car garage, staff quarters, five acres of gardens with fountains, statues, benches, urns and a pond featuring enough koi or carp or flounder to feed the first seating at Le Bernardin.
Give or take a roll of Charmin, it's 13 bathrooms with gold-plated fixtures, three floors, 24,000 square feet, eight bedrooms, including a "snoring room" off the 75-by-42 master suite (should Jerry get noisy), 10 hand-carved marble working fireplaces, 26-foot-high ceilings, a conservatory without which no house should be and, says decorator Martin Kuckly: "I did a hotel in Nantucket that's smaller."
Builder Mark Mariani calls the kitchen area/family room the largest in the state of Connecticut. It seats 40. Its fixture is a 1920s, 14-foot bronze job found in an antique shop in Stamford. The thing had to be disassembled, trucked in and took days to get hung.
Judyville includes a red plush fully equipped theater with 50 seats, candy concession stand and popcorn machine. At another end, a wine cellar. The Plaza doesn't have such a wine cellar. Also a heated pool and spa and massage room. Also playroom with pool table, pingpong table, etc. Also large state-of-the-art gym with enough gear to sprain ligaments you never knew you had. Also for Judy personally - who's size 2 and, even standing on her IRS forms, only 5-ish feet tall - an enormous custom tub hand-carved from Rosa Aurora stone in Portugal. Says Mark Mariani: "I put in a small drain so we don't lose her."
The main house uses 500 light bulbs....
