Kathy Griffin was an unknown comedic actress when she landed her breakout role on NBC's 1996 sitcom "Suddenly Susan." But three seasons in, she discovered a sobering truth after grilling her co-stars about their wages. "I had the second-lowest salary on the cast," she says. "Judd Nelson made four times what I made, and he ended up getting fired." When her agents balked at securing her a pay hike, she marched up to the office of Warner Bros. TV chief Peter Roth to demand a raise. "It was an all-out brawl," says Griffin, who wrote down a number on a napkin and slid it over to Roth, channeling a used-car salesman. "I got a raise," she says. "I still didn't make equal to what the guys were making."
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