Oprah Winfrey - 5 things you probably don't know about the media mogul

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2. She is the only black American female billionaire

Oprah was born into poverty and she was raised by her grandmother who was dependent on government assistance. Oprah was a millionaire by the age of 32 when her talk show reached national syndication. She eventually negotiated ownership rights to her programming and started her own production company up.

At the age of 41, she had a net worth of $340 million, replacing Bill Cosby as the only African American on the Forbes 400. She was even believed to be the richest African American of the 20th century.

As of 2014, Oprah has a net worth of $2.9 Billion dollars, surpassing former eBay CEO Meg Whitman as the richest self-made woman in America.

Oprah Winfrey
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