The people (plaintiffs and defendants) are not actors but are approached by the producers after filing actual law suits. The agreement is each side gets paid by the show and any damages ruled are paid out of that purse, and the agreement is no further ltigation.
Not quite as bad as Jerry Springer, but the demograph is similar.
That would be Jeanine Pirro. I seriously doubt JJ would give much truck to Trump.
Yeah, not quite Oprah, but she's amassed quite a bit over the years.