Oprah Winfrey

About

Television host and producer who was named the most influential woman in the world by TIME magazine and hosted The Oprah Winfrey Show, the highest-rated syndicated program on air, from 1986 to 2011.

Before Fame

She was raped at age nine, and when she was fourteen, she had a premature baby that didn't survive. She was crowned Miss Black Tennessee while in college and began co-anchoring the evening news when she was nineteen.

Trivia

She became the world's first female black billionaire and the richest self-made American woman. She had a net worth over $2 billion in 2013.

Family Life

She began a relationship with Stedman Graham in 1986.

Associated With

She introduced Mehmet Oz to countless viewers on The Oprah Winfrey Show.

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