Oprah Winfrey is perhaps the most famous women around the world.Winfrey is best known for her globally successful talk show "Th Opera Winfrey Show" which was the highest rates show of its kind in history.Currently she is worth over $ 3 billion and her salary for the year 2013 was $75 million.in 2013 she was awarded the presidential medal of freedom by Barack Obama.
Oprah was born into a poverty stricken home in 1954 to a teenage mother.She was raped when she was only 9 years old and was impregnated at the age of 14.however,her son died in infancy.Her first job as a teenager was working at a local grocery store.At age 17 she won a beauty pageant.She also worked for three years at local radio station.The Oprah Winfrey Show was hosted for the first time by Opera in 1984.It was called AM Chicago back then and was the lowest rated morning show of its time,however,within months Opera transformed its fortunes and it overtook Donahue as the highest rated television talk show.Oprah is also the co founder of women cable television network Oxygen and is also the president of Harpo Productions.In 2008 discovery channel renamed its Discovery health channel into Oprah Winfrey Network.
Oprah Winfrey became a millionaire by the age of 32 when her talk show went national.At the age of 41 she had a net worth of $341 million. Winfrey net worth ballooned to $800 million by the year 2000 and her annual income was $275 million in the year 2006.Winfrey was the only black billionaire from 2004 to 2006.Currently she is worth close to $3 billion dollars.
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| Oprah Receiving the" Presidential Medal of Freedom" |
Oprah was born into a poverty stricken home in 1954 to a teenage mother.She was raped when she was only 9 years old and was impregnated at the age of 14.however,her son died in infancy.Her first job as a teenager was working at a local grocery store.At age 17 she won a beauty pageant.She also worked for three years at local radio station.The Oprah Winfrey Show was hosted for the first time by Opera in 1984.It was called AM Chicago back then and was the lowest rated morning show of its time,however,within months Opera transformed its fortunes and it overtook Donahue as the highest rated television talk show.Oprah is also the co founder of women cable television network Oxygen and is also the president of Harpo Productions.In 2008 discovery channel renamed its Discovery health channel into Oprah Winfrey Network.
Oprah Winfrey became a millionaire by the age of 32 when her talk show went national.At the age of 41 she had a net worth of $341 million. Winfrey net worth ballooned to $800 million by the year 2000 and her annual income was $275 million in the year 2006.Winfrey was the only black billionaire from 2004 to 2006.Currently she is worth close to $3 billion dollars.