Sonia Sotomayor Will Get Additional $1.9 Million Advance On Memoir

It was revealed on Friday upon the release of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor's financial disclosure forms that the justice had made more than $3 million in advance payments from her publisher for her best-selling memoir, "My Beloved World." According to the Associated Press, publisher Knopf Doubleday Group paid Sotomayor $1.925 million in 2012 for her book, on top of the $1.2 million advance she got from the publisher in 2010.

Upon its release in January, "My Beloved World" landed on the New York Times' nonfiction bestseller weeks and dug in its heels, remaining at the number 1 spot for four weeks.

Since the 58-year-old justice became the first Latina justice on the U.S. high court, she has gained a reputation for being the most outgoing member of the Supreme Court bench. The Washingtonian wrote yesterday that the justice has been spotted at trendy DC-area restaurants like Ardeo & Bardeo and Posto, and celebrated the 20^th-anniversary bash of chef José Andrés' Penn Quarter eatery Jaleo. And her book tour has taken her around the country and into the limelight with actresses like Eva Longoria and Rita Moreno -- with whom she gave a joint book talk at the Shakespeare Theater Company's Sidney Harman Hall in March -- as well as Oprah Winfrey.

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She has also reportedly embarked upon a lifestyle a bit less austere than the one she led before. Her first financial disclosure form as justice indicated that her payments on thousands of dollars worth of dental bills and credit card bills came from bank accounts worth no more than $65,000. By contrast, she reported having more than $1 million in a bank account last year, with a credit card debt of as much as $60,000. She's also left the Cleveland Park rental where she once resided for hipper accommodations: a $660,000 condo in the U Street corridor (Ruth Bader Ginsberg lives in the Watergate, and John Roberts and Antonin Scalia reside in nearby suburbs Chevy Chase and McLean, respectively).

Other justices had book-related finances reported in past disclosure forms as well, though the sums generated are much more modest. Justice Antonin Scalia's forms said he made $63,991 in book royalties with the June 2012 publication of "Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts," which he co-authored with Bryan A. Garner. Justice Stephen Breyer's forms indicated that previous publications netted him some $30,000 in royalties in 2012.