Judge Judy’s black robes are expanding. No. 1 on daytime TV after nearly 20 years, her most recent book, “What Would Judy Say?” is “a grown-up guide to living together with benefits.”

“And available strictly on Amazon,” she says. “I’m giving it away free to anyone who’ll read it. The catch is, if you learn one thing from the read you’re asked to make a donation to Stand Up to Cancer.”

Five earlier books include “Don’t Pee on My Leg and Tell Me It’s Raining.” Also, “Beauty Fades, Dumb Is Forever.” She’s not Dickens. The book’s dos, don’ts and doubts before divorce says: “Being a nurturer isn’t being a moron . . . Can’t trust your heart, use your brain, your eyes and ears — just hide your checkbook.”

At its party Sept. 8 in LA, she’ll also introduce three judges of “Hot Bench,” her newly created syndicated talk show panel, which begins nationally Sept. 15. New York launches it on Channel 55.

“Judge Judy,” shown in India, Japan, England, the world over, pays more than our municipal jurist system. Give or take a buck, she earns $1 million a week.

Fashion houses

This story about Cynthia Rowley’s construction being stopped because neighbors disliked the noise? How about longtime knitwear designer Carol Horn’s apartment just being flooded? What is it with sabotaging fashionistas’ homes?

A familiar ring

This story about Sofia Vergara’s new, sudden, large ring-finger diamond and which undisclosed dude sprang for it recently? Please. Long back I interviewed her and she was wearing that thing while still engaged to a creature named Nick Loeb.

‘Love’ Lithgow’s new film

New movie. “Love Is Strange.” Says John Lithgow: “Last night, I closed in Shakespeare in the Park. Tomorrow, I’m rehearsing for Broadway’s ‘A Delicate Balance,’ playing Glenn Close’s husband. Tonight’s my screening where I needn’t act or do anything. Just sit in the audience with whoever’s seeing it from Bushwick, Gowanus, Jackson Heights and all the boroughs.

“In this touching movie, Alfred Molina and I play a comfy old couple together for years. We get married in lower Manhattan. He teaches at a Catholic school. Suddenly, the archdiocese lets him go. No money, we must sell our apartment, live apart, move in with others, look for affordable housing. We’re victims of New York’s real estate.

“The last two-minute scene with a 17-year-old standing at a stairwell breaks your heart. I can’t ruin it so I can’t tell it.”

Molina, patting Lithgow’s back like they were a real couple: “We never acted together before, but were friends. We were at ease with one another. Listen, takes nothing special to play a homosexual. Love is love.”

Picture imperfect

This story about high-handed, arrogant Texas Gov. Rick Perry looking to run for the White House, but currently running into the courthouse? Take an NY event this winter. To avoid hardworking press who’d waited hours, he’s so pompous, he dissed them. Snuck in a side door just to pose and have his picture taken.

O, please!

This story about high-handed, arrogant Texas Gov. Rick Perry looking to run for the White House, but currently running into the courthouse? Take an NY event this winter. To avoid hardworking press who’d waited hours, he’s so pompous, he dissed them. Snuck in a side door just to pose and have his picture taken.


 

Onoce sleepy Amagansett’s hills are now alive with the sound of Secret Service. And these ­Secret Service-niks do not stay secret. Hillary’s got them. Bill’s got them. Next, Chelsea gets them. The town’s bitching traffic is at a stop because of them.

Only in Amagansett, kids, only in Amagansett.