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Oprah Gail Winfrey was born on 29 January 1954, in Kosciusko, Mississippi USA, of largely Liberian ethnic descent, and is an influential American media proprietor, actress, businesswoman, television and film producer, but is undoubtedly best known as a television talk show host.

So just how rich is Oprah Winfrey? According to sources, Oprah’s net worth is estimated to be an impressive $3 billion, with the main sources for her wealth coming from her appearances on television screens, particularly ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’, which became the highest-rated talk show ever on US TV, and aired from 1986 until 2011.

Oprah Winfrey underwent poverty, abuse and prejudice during the early stages of her life, living largely with her grandmother while her single mother sought work, but also alternating separately with her mother and father. However, she won both an oratory and a beauty contest at East Nashville High School, and then studied communications at Tennessee State University, during which period she became the youngest news reader on local radio and TV stations.

Oprah Winfrey landed her first major television job in Chicago in 1983, when she worked on the morning talk show called “AM Chicago”. With Winfrey’s position as a host, the show went from having the lowest ratings to become one of the highest rated talk shows in Chicago at the time. The show was then renamed “The Oprah Winfrey Show” and began to be broadcast in 1986. At the beginning stage of the show, it was considered to be a tabloid talk show, but as the time went on it expanded to encompass such topics as politics, meditation, heart disease and many others. The show included interviews with various celebrity guests related to the discussed issues, as well as giveaways for the audience that significantly increased the ratings and popularity of the show. One of the longest running daytime television talk shows in history with over 4,000 episodes aired. “The Oprah Winfrey Show” has won 47 Daytime Emmy Awards in addition to many other nominations. In 1993, Oprah Winfrey hosted a memorable interview with Michael Jackson that attracted a viewership of 35.6 million people and became the fourth most watched event in the history of American television. Even though some celebrities such as Ludacris and 50 Cent have expressed their dissatisfaction with Oprah’s attitude towards their music, Winfrey remained a highly influential and beloved person in the industry.

In addition to the revenue collected from her talk show, Oprah has added significant amounts of money to her net worth by making appearances in a variety of movies including Steven Spielberg’s “The Color Purple” for which she was nominated for an Academy Award and a film adaptation of Toni Morrison’s novel “Beloved” of the same name. Oprah has also published several magazines, including “O, The Oprah Magazine” and in 2006 signed a contract to create a new radio channel called “Oprah Radio”. Oprah’s incredible ability to influence public opinions and successfully endorse consumer products has been named “The Oprah Effect”, which only proves that by naming her the most influential person in the world, Time magazine made the right choice. Oprah Winfrey is undoubtedly a beloved and welcomed face in the entertainment industry.

In her personal life, Oprah Winfrey has discussed several romatic liaisons in her early years, including one resulting in childbirth, but the baby was premature and died. She has stated that she never wanted children, as she would be a poor mother. Oprah Winfrey currently lives in a 42-acre estate in California called “The Promised Land” that has 14 bathrooms and 10 sophisticated fireplaces.

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1. Her repeated dramatic weight loss and gain
2. Her self-deprecating humor

Oprah Winfrey Quotes

• Do the thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
• What kind of woman do I want to be? One who willingly gives and receives love. One who is compassionate. Understanding. Positive. Forgiving. A woman who makes responsible choices. I want to live with a heart open to life.
• When in doubt, be bold!
• The future is full of possibility, whether you make one tiny change – or a whole invigorating, thrilling, inspiring bunch of them.
• Whatever your dreams, ideas or rejects, we plant a seed, nurture it – and then reap the fruits of our labors.
• I feel I have made a living being myself. I’ve made a career out of my own authenticity. I don’t have one face I present to the white world or to the black world. I talk to my dogs the same way I’m speaking right now.
• [on performing in ‘Lee Daniel’s The Butler’] I’m a historian of my own history – of African American history. I believe that when you know who you are you have the ability to move forward, not only with your own strength but with the strength of your entire ancestry. I am the daughter of a maid, and my grandmother was a maid, and her mother was a maid, and her mother was a slave. I feel validated by the war that the butler and his entire generation fought in their own way. And the fact that there’s another generation of freedom writers and freedom fighters, because of evolution and growth and change, decided they weren’t going to do that anymore. Both wars were necessary for their time.
• [on Shondra Rhimes] Shondra is a storyteller for our times. Courageous in her approach to the work, she’s never played by other people’s rules. She creates an assemblage of worldly foibles and aspirations. She understands that every dream is valuable and every identity deserves inspection through the looking-glass of television. She knows the power of reflection and wields that power with grace and generosity.
• The best advice touches the part of you that knows it’s true.
• Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never , ever have enough.
• No matter where you are on your journey, that’s exactly where you need to be. The next road is always up.
• I’m a firm believer that anyone can have a breakthrough right in her own backyard.
• When the odds are against you and you have the depth of clarity to listen to your own instincts and follow what is true for you, you may not become a Jay-Z, but you will become the best thing that you can be.
• Reaching your true potential is more than an ideal. It’s the ultimate goal.
• Having the best things is no substitute for having the best life.
• On strategy: Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
• On personal power: I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.
• Part of her 2009 commencement speech at Duke: Of all the wonderful things that have happened including getting a doctorate, an honorary doctorate from Duke, what really makes me feel successful is being able to use my life in service to someone else. And I will have to say, it is a wonderful thing to have a beautiful home or homes, a wonderful thing to have a beautiful home which just escaped the fire in Santa Barbara. And it is really fantastic to have your own jet and anybody who says it isn’t is lying to you. The jet thing is really good. But you haven’t completed the circle of success unless you can help somebody else move forward.
• Just want to say how deeply saddened I am, we all are, by the sudden passing of actress Natasha Richardson yesterday. Our thoughts and prayers are with her husband Liam Neeson, their two sons, the rest of their family and friends. Yet another reminder of how fleeting life can be and how precious. We need to value every moment (On Natasha Richardson’s tragic death).
• My philosophy is that doing your best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
• Some women have a weakness for shoes… I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.
• The expectation of my life was that I might be able to work for some good white folks. Now I got some good white folks working for me.
• What matters is how you feel inside, because feeling beautiful on the inside is key to looking good. quoted in Woman’s World 9-20-05
• The essential question is not, “How busy are you?’ but ‘What are you busy at?’ ‘Are you doing what fulfills you?’
• All my life I have always known I was born to greatness.
• Lots of people want to ride with you in the Limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the Limo breaks down.
• My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.
• Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Oprah Winfrey Important Facts

• $315,000,000 per year (2010)
• approx. $35,000
• Her five dogs: Luke and Layla (golden retrievers), Sadie (cocker spaniel) and Sunny and Lauren (springer spaniels).
• Last person to interview Liberace on television before his death – The Oprah Winfrey Show: Episode dated 25 December 1986 (1986).
• She is left-handed.
• Good friends with Tyler Perry.
• Longtime friend of Joan Rivers. Winfrey attended her funeral, when the comedienne passed away on September 7, 2014.
• Subject of the song “Oprah Winfrey” by Wesley Willis.
• Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013 by President Barack Obama.
• Her support of Barack Obama helped him to become the first Black US president.
• Oprah has become the first African-American woman to own a cable network. It is called OWN, which stands for Oprah Winfrey Network.
• Since the inception of the “Book Club” segment on her show, an estimated 30 million books were sold as a direct result of the worldwide publicity.
• Ever since she was 15-years-old, Oprah has kept a journal of every day of her life.
• Teenage crushes were Beatle Paul McCartney and the Jackson 5’s Jackie Jackson.
• Received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award – a special Oscar for her charity work – on November 12, 2011 in Los Angeles.
• Oprah’s broadcasting career began in the late 1960s as a teenage intern at WVOL, an African-American radio station in Nashville, Tennessee.
• When Oprah’s show went independent for the first time, her staff consisted of 4 personnel including herself. By 2011, her empire had expanded to 464 personnel.
• Over the 25-year run of her daytime TV talk show, Winfrey never once missed a day through absenteeism.
• Attended Nicolet High School in Glendale, Wisconsin for a short period of time in her teenage years.
• Her idol is Diana Ross. Her favorite album is “Graceland” by Paul Simon. She was interviewed for the documentary about the album Under African Skies (2012).
• Aunt of Chrishaunda Lee, the daughter of her deceased half-sister Patricia. Oprah walked Chrishaundra down the aisle at her wedding in 2005.
• With ratings at an estimated 6.5 million viewers per day, her show is the most popular talk show in the world.
• Recipient of the 2010 Kennedy Center Honors; other recipients that year were Jerry Herman, Paul McCartney, Merle Haggard, and Bill T. Jones.
• Her personal chef until 2007 was Art Smith.
• World’s first black billionairess with an estimated worth of $2.3 billion as of 2009.
• Jeff Bridges, Michael Douglas, Ellen DeGeneres, Kevin Costner, Steve Martin, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Carol Burnett, John Cleese, Rob Lowe and Ivan Reitman are among her various Southern California neighbors.
• She was awarded an honorary doctorate from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina in 2009 and was the 2009 Commencement Speaker.
• Ranked #1 in the 2008 Forbes The Celebrity 100 list.
• Had two half-siblings from her mother. Her half-brother passed away from AIDS in December 1988 and her half-sister, Patricia Lee, died under mysterious circumstances in 2003.
• Thanked by Shawn Colvin in the liner notes of her album “A Few Small Repairs”.
• In 2006, she earned an estimated $260 million in salary from her various interests including syndication, cable television, and print magazines.
• In 2006, she gave $58,300,000 to charity to the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy, Oprah’s Angel Network, and other groups.
• Her two-year-old golden retriever, Gracie, died after accidentally choking to death on another dog’s ball [July 2007].
• Appearing on the annual “Time 100” list, Time’s ranking of the 100 most influential people in the world, in 2007 again, she is the only person who has been on that list five times (May 2007).
• Has Native American ancestry.
• Winfrey’s name was originally “Orpah,” after the biblical figure in the book of Ruth. Several different stories allude to the fact that either a misspelling on her birth certificate or a struggle with the pronunciation of her name eventually led to “Oprah” being adopted as her given name.
• Collapsed from heat exhaustion during a recent visit to her hometown of Kosciusko, Mississippi. [October 2006]
• Was #3 on the annual Forbes magazine Celebrity 100 list in 2006
• Has a cameo playing herself in Throw Momma from the Train (1987). In a “clip” from her show, she interviews a writer (the ex-wife of Billy Crystal’s character) whose plagiarized and embellished “life story” is at the top of the bestseller lists (foreshadowing the James Frey controversy twenty years later).
• After years of publicly criticizing David Letterman’s late-night television show, Late Show with David Letterman (1993), she and Letterman finally settled their differences when she agreed to appear on the December 1, 2005 episode, during which time she was to be in New York to promote her musical of The Color Purple (1985). During the Superbowl of 2007, they appeared in an advertisement together for Letterman’s show. In the ad, they sat together on a couch watching the Superbowl, wearing opposing team jerseys. [2005]
• First African-American woman to become a billionaire in American history.
• Was a guest at friends Maria Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s star-studded wedding
• According to Forbes magazine, her 2005 net worth is $1.3 billion. She was the first African-American women to make the list of billionaires, in 2003.
• Natural daughter of Vernon Winfrey by Vernita Lee (born 2 May 1935).
• Purchased a house at 3330 Radcliffe Avenue, West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. This superb 11,000 sq ft waterfront property was on sale for Cdn $18 million, at the time British Columbia’s most expensive house, but she paid Cdn $17 million (US$13 million). [June 2004]
• Net worth is estimated to be US$1.1 billion. [2004]
• Ranked #1 Pop Culture Icon on VH1’s The Greatest: 200 Greatest Pop Culture Icons (2003), beating out Superman and Elvis.
• Elected to the National Women’s Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, NY
• Ranked #1 on VH1’s list of the “200 Greatest Pop Culture Icons” (2003)
• She and her former personal trainer, Bob Greene, announced they are buying seven shoreline lots from Getty Family Trust to build several homes, including one on 102-acre lot for Oprah. They plan to put conservation first and keep site development low key. [April 2002]
• Born at 7:51 PM EST
• (1986 – present) Partner is Stedman Graham.
• Raised in abject poverty, she received her first pair of shoes in 1959 at age 6. She learned to read at age 2½. In fact, when it was time for her to start kindergarten, she wrote a note to her teacher insisting she should be in first grade. The teacher agreed and after finishing that grade she was then skipped to third grade.
• Was instrumental in the passage of the Oprah Bill, in the early 1990s. The bill was signed into law by President Bill Clinton, and is aimed at stopping child abuse.
• Gave birth to a baby boy when she was just 14. The baby died after 2 weeks, from complications of being born 2 months premature.
• Her immensely popular TV talk show is a Harpo Production. Harpo is Oprah spelled backwards. Harpo is also the name of a character in The Color Purple (1985) (Oprah’s film debut) played by Willard E. Pugh.
• Awarded (lst) 50th anniversary medal by National Book Foundation, NYC. [November 1999]
• Given an honorary National Book Award for her “influential contribution to reading and books”. [October 1999]
• (Fall 1999) She and Stedman Graham are teaching “Dynamics of Leadership” class at Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management.
• Inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in Seneca, New York. [1994]
• Chosen by “People” magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World in 1997.
• Announced that Oprah would receive $130,000,000 for continuing her talk show through the 1999-2000 TV season. [September 1997]
• Listed as one of twelve “Promising New Actors of 1985” in John Willis’ Screen World, Vol. 37.
• Is the first woman in history to own and produce her own talk show.
• Graduate of Tennessee State University, with a degree in Speech and Performing Arts.
• She was ranked first in Entertainment Weekly’s 1998 list of the most powerful people in show business, but dropped to sixth in the 1999 list. Still, she was the highest ranking performer, as well as the highest ranking woman, and the only African-American to make the list.
• Was sued by Texas cattlemen who claimed that Oprah defamed beef on her talk show. The case went to trial, causing Oprah to have to relocate her show’s production to Amarillo, Texas, for the duration of the trial. She was found not liable.
• Graduated from East Nashville High School in Nashville, Tennessee (1971), where she was voted most popular.
• In addition to being a news anchor on WJZ-TV13 in Baltimore, Maryland, Winfrey was co-host with Richard Sher (a reporter) on a local talk show called “People are Talking” on that station.
• She permanently withdrew herself and her show from consideration for a Daytime Emmy Award after being awarded the Lifetime Achievement in 1998. She was quoted as saying, “After you’ve achieved it for a lifetime, what else is there?”

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