'Jerry Springer Show' Producer Makes Bombshell Claim About Late Host

A new Netflix docuseries claims to go behind the scenes of The Jerry Springer Show "to expose its biggest scandals, both on- and off-camera." However, a former producer on the low-brow daytime talk show slams the series as a "whitewash" and says the actual details are even more shocking.

Norm Lubow, who was a controversial and outspoken cannabis advocate in the '90s, told The Irish Sun that he appeared on The Jerry Springer Show a half-dozen times before he was hired as a freelance guest booker in 1996. It didn't take long before he was promoted to full-time producer, and Lubow claims it's because he essentially served as a "pimp" for host Jerry Springer, who died at the age of 79 in 2023.

In the Netflix doc, Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action, one incident is detailed that allegedly took place in 1998 in which Springer was caught on camera having a threesome with a guest of the show, a porn star named Kendra Jade, and her stepmother. Lubow says that's just the tip of the iceberg, and that he regularly would recruit attractive female "guests" of the show to do what he calls "double-duty."

"When we were first hired Jerry came out to meet us in L.A. and picked us up in a limo. The first thing Jerry said to us was, 'I want to get laid, where are the hookers?'" Lubow recalled. "We were like, 'Whoa!' but basically we realized right away, it wasn't just about getting guests for the show, it was about getting him laid, which of course we did."

"That just became part of our job and that's why we were so successful and we moved up the ladder," he explained. "We found him women who were happy to do double duty, come on the show and look after Jerry after filming." Lubow said that "luckily" he knew a lot of good-looking women and strippers from his days in the Los Angeles music scene, which meant that he ultimately was successful at his job.

"When I became a full-time producer, I'd bring on a good-looking guest and Jerry would go, 'I want to meet that guest," he continued. "I'd go up them and say, 'Uh, you know I'm a new producer here and it would do me a huge favor if you would go out with Jerry tonight, he thinks you're great.' And they would—so I was like the pimp. It didn't take much persuading, the girls were happy to go off with him."

Lubow chalks up Springer's weakness with attractive women to him being an "unpopular geek" in high school, and that he was "like a kid in a candy store" due to his fame.

"It was just an accepted part of my job being his pimp and on the Netflix show they make out that he had this one sex scandal. No way, that was just the only time he got caught," he added.

Lubow was hired along with his friend Al Bowman, then a celebrity limo driver in Hollywood, who corroborated his claims to The Sun. "Yes, we did that. And many other things as well," Bowman said. "I co-produced nine shows. We forever changed how television works. We opened the floodgates for reality TV to thrive and grow."

Before finding success on daytime television, Springer had a political career in Ohio, famously resigning from his seat on the Cincinnati city council in 1974 after he was caught soliciting a prostitute using a personal check. However, the scandal didn't stick, and he was subsequently elected back to the city council the following year, eventually serving as Mayor of Cincinnati from 1977 to 1978.