(Newport, RI) -- TV's Judge Judy is buying a house in Newport. A statement from Gustave White Sotheby's international Realty indicates Judge Judy Sheindlin, who has presided over televised court proceedings for more than 20 years, is purchasing the "Bird House" estate for nine-million dollars with her husband. The house was previously owned by Campbell Soup heiress and philanthropist Dorrance Hill Hamilton, who died last year.