Oprah Winfrey (actually Orpah Winfrey; * 29 January 1954 in Kosciusko, Mississippi, the USA) is an American Talkshow host and Unternehmerin. It is admits for The Oprah Winfrey show, the by far most successful Talkshow of the American television. Their influence on their spectators is so large that the renowned restaurant magazine Forbes it recently to the most influential prominent one of the USA; in the list of the most powerful women of the world of the same magazine it ranks at the respected place.

Winfrey is besides one expressed successful and the first Afroamerikanerin, who became Their enterprise is called "HARPO" (Oprah from the rear forward read).

Life

Career

Their career began Oprah Winfrey as a message host in Baltimore, Maryland. Soon it had its own talc show, The Oprah Winfrey show, later shortened on Oprah. This deliberates itself upon the traditional format of a talc show, which loads host here persons in, who suffer from poverty or victims of unfortunate accidents are. Thus it began to use itself soon for charitable purposes. It tries to report openly on different aspects of the life also over uncomfortable like sexual abuse in the childhood and use of drugs with adults.

In the 90's it created its Oprah's Book club on the television. Many authors present their books with Oprah, Bill Clinton were for the cause of the publication of his Autobiografie likewise to guest. The book club is important an indicator for the best-seller lists of the USA and as purchase recommendation. Thus Winfrey has a large influence on the US media.

Complaint against Oprah

During a transmission over mad cow disease in the year 1996 Winfrey said: "It holds me to eat a further Burger ". Thereupon it was sued by texanischen cattle breeders because of slandering, which its statement responsible for a purge of the meat prices and in the consequence for a loss of 12 million dollar made.

Winfrey was not guiltily found by the jury for. She got a postcard of colleague Rosie O'Donnell after the complaint, in which this wrote: "Congratulations, you beat the meat "(congratulation, you has the meat defeated). To mark it is here that Rosie O'Donnell does not hold much of its colleague, and that "it beat the "in the American colloquial language an expression for the male Masturbation is meat.

Further activities

• Winfrey created "The fishing rod network" (the angel network), where she collects money for charitable purposes. Beside its own magazine "O and O RK Home" (O and O at home) possesses it also the television station Oxygen. She is president of Harpo Productions.
• Oprah Winfrey is also an opportunity actress, for example in the filming of Alice Walkers the color lila one. It produced the film conversion of tonuses Morissons people child.
• Winfrey is an authoress and carrier "Bob Hope of the Humanitarian Award", which she got with the Emmy award 2002.
• In addition, Winfrey lives a house in Montecito, California in Chicago, Illinois, possesses. In addition it bought a further domicile in Maui on Hawaii.
• With 1.2 billion US Dollar on the account is it the first black woman, who became

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• Fem biography: Oprah Winfrey

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