Oprah Winfrey, born January 29,
1954 is an American Media Proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer and
philanthropist. She is best known for her talk show “The Oprah Winfrey Show”
which was the highest-rated programme of its kind in history and was nationally
syndicated from 1986-2011. Dubbed the “Queen of All Media”, she has been ranked
the richest African American of the 20th century, the greatest black
philanthropist in American history.
And she is now North America’s first
and only multi-millionaire black. Several assessments regard her as the most
influential woman in the world.
Oprah was born in Kosciusko,
Mississippi, United State of America to an unmarried teenage mother. She later
said that her conception was due to a single sexual encounter and the couple
broke up not long after. Born to Vernita Lee and Vernon Winfrey, she was born
into poverty in rural Mississippi and later raised in an inner-city Milwaukee
neighbourhood. She stated she was molested during her childhood and early teens
and became pregnant at 14, her son died in infancy. Her first national
broadcast was in 1986.
Oprah has co-authored five books
and published a magazine, O, the Oprah Magazine from 2004-2008, she also
created the online platform oprah.com website averaging 70million page views
and six million users per month and receives approximately 20, 000 e-mails each
week. She negotiated ownership rights to the television programme and started
her own production company. At the age 41, Winfrey had a net worth of $340
million and replaces Bill Cosby as the only African American on the Forbes 400
with a net worth of $800 million.
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