Oprah Winfrey..earns $225 million and her web site gets 5,710,000 hits a year and Oprah Winfrey is worth of more than $1 billion


The doyenne of daytime television reigns supreme. O's global empire spans books, magazines and movies in addition to the eponymous talk show that started it all. Syndication remains her bread and butter (if the newly slim star still ate carbs, that is). The nine figures Oprah Winfrey takes home for her own show are topped with a healthy portion of revenue from Harpo's Dr. Phil spinoff.


Oprah Gail Winfrey was born January 29, 1954 and is an American Emmy Award-winning talk show host and magazine publisher.


Oprah Winfrey was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi on January 29, 1954 to an impoverished Baptist family. Oprah Winfrey was originally named Orpah Gail Winfrey, after the Bible's Book of Ruth. The midwife switched the "r" and the "p" around when she was writing the birth certificate so Oprah became her accepted name.


Her mother, Vernita Lee, was a housemaid, and her father, Vernon Winfrey, was a coal miner and, later, a barber; then, city councilperson. When Oprah Winfrey was born, Vernon was in the Armed Forces. Her parents were unmarried teenagers when Oprah was born. After Oprah Winfrey was born, her mother travelled north for better job opportunities, and Oprah Winfrey spent her first six years living with her Grandma Haitee Mae. Oprah Winfrey's grandmother taught her to read and took her to the local church, where she was nicknamed "The Preacher" for her ability to recite Bible verses. Oprah Winfrey's grandmother helped her succeed. When Oprah Winfrey was little her grandmother would take a switch (in the South, that custom meant the thin green leafless shoot from certain trees — more for psychological effect than for pain) and would hit her with it when she didn't do chores or if she misbehaved in any way.

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