{"id":4022,"date":"2018-06-25T02:40:41","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T09:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=4022"},"modified":"2018-06-25T02:40:41","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T09:40:41","slug":"case-closed-for-caso-cerrado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2018\/06\/25\/case-closed-for-caso-cerrado\/","title":{"rendered":"Case Closed For Caso Cerrado"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twice a day, my life is made brighter by&nbsp;<strong><em>Caso Cerrado<\/em><\/strong>, which gives me more pleasure than anything else on television.&nbsp; This Spanish-language courtroom show on&nbsp;<em>Telemundo&nbsp;<\/em>is like a cross between&nbsp;<strong><em>Judge Judy<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong><em>Jerry Springer<\/em><\/strong>, with a little bit of&nbsp;<strong><em>Unsolved Mysteries<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;sprinkled in.&nbsp; You see, there is a disclaimer at the end of the show saying, \u201cThe cases seen may be based on real events and may be dramatized\u201d.&nbsp; Well, at least they admit it!&nbsp; It has been a major hit throughout the Spanish-speaking world since it debuted in 2001 and is presided over by the brilliant&nbsp;<strong>Dra. Ana Maria Polo<\/strong>, who is a mediator, not a judge.&nbsp; She also sings the theme song, but let\u2019s not even go there.&nbsp; But more germane to this story is that she\u2019s a lesbian \u2013 something which has been whispered about for years but never publicly confirmed.&nbsp; And that\u2019s strange because Polo is a fervent advocate of gay rights and regularly features LGBTQ cases on her show.&nbsp; Now she\u2019s been thrust into the spotlight with a case of her own.&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Marlene Key<\/strong>, who was the show\u2019s former executive producer, has filed a $2 million lawsuit claiming that she owns the name&nbsp;<em>Caso Cerrado<\/em>.&nbsp; She alleges that when Polo was ill, she transferred all of her property over to her lover, Key!&nbsp; When the two broke up, Marlene was ousted from the production, and Polo allegedly emptied out their joint bank account.&nbsp; Hence the lawsuit, which is now getting publicity.&nbsp; Due to the scrutiny,&nbsp;<em>Telemundo&nbsp;<\/em>has replaced the evening airings with a soap, although they say&nbsp;<em>Caso Cerrado<\/em>&nbsp;will return in the fall.&nbsp; We\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twice a day, my life is made brighter by&nbsp;Caso Cerrado, which gives me more pleasure than anything else on television.&nbsp; This Spanish-language courtroom show on&nbsp;Telemundo&nbsp;is like a cross between&nbsp;Judge Judy&nbsp;and&nbsp;Jerry Springer, with a little bit of&nbsp;Unsolved Mysteries&nbsp;sprinkled in.&nbsp; You see, there is a disclaimer at the end of the show saying, \u201cThe cases seen may<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4023,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4022\/revisions\/4023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}