Portrait of Oprah Winfrey

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Oprah Winfrey

Net worth $3.4B

TV shows · United States

Born
Jan 29, 1954
Age
72
Source
TV shows
Residence
Chicago, Illinois
Citizenship
United States
Marital status
In Relationship
Children
0
Education
Bachelor of Arts/Science, Tennessee State University

Net worth over time

Biography

  • Oprah Winfrey transitioned her hit talk show, which ran for 25 years until 2011, into a media and business empire.
  • Reinvested, the profits from her show, plus profits from films like The Color Purple, Beloved and Selma (which her Harpo Productions coproduced) add up to an estimated more than $2.5 billion.
  • In 2011, Winfrey launched cable channel OWN. She sold most of her stake in the network to owner Warner Bros. Discovery in 2020 in exchange for shares in the company.
  • Her sprawling real estate portfolio includes homes in California and over a dozen properties including 2,100 acres of land in Hawaii.
  • Winfrey overcame a tough childhood, born to a teen mother in rural Mississippi and raised without indoor plumbing.
  • Winfrey has focused her philanthropy on education, including supporting a girls' school in South Africa.

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