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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