Judge Judy executive producer Randy Douthit has made the news this week due to allegations of improper and crude behavior towards litigants on the show.
Randy Douthit is a producer and director best known for his work on Judge Judy’s reality court series, which saw former Judge Judy Sheindlin take on real-life small case claims.
Court documents and former employees blasted Douthit, saying he routinely mocked and shamed the litigants who appeared on the court show spearheaded by Sheindlin. He allegedly would make crude comments about females saying they were either “too fat” or “too ugly,” Insider reported.
A 2001 lawsuit filed by a former segment producer named Shawn Griggs says Douthit would make pig or cow noises whenever he found a female litigant unattractive. He also referred to a Black female guest as a “ho,” and made references to wanting to “get with” particular female litigants.
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The court documents show that Douthit denied calling anyone a “ho” but said “I don’t believe so” when asked if he made animal noises about the guests. “I hope not. I may have, but I hope not,” Douthit said when asked if he made any rude comments about the show’s litigants.
A few written reports from Douthit found that he called litigants “gross” and “low rent.”
In talks with Insider, Kurstin Haynes, a former producer who left the show in 2021, shared: “He’d make comments about their weight, he’d make comments about their teeth.”
“He definitely didn’t talk about them like they were people; it was like they were subhuman,” one former associate producer said.
In response to the lawsuit filed by Griggs, Douthit’s lawyer explained: “the allegations pertaining to Mr. Douthit in this lawsuit were completely false. The trial court determined that based upon the undisputed material facts, [the plaintiff’s] claims failed as a matter of law.”
