BLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa – A central South African university known for fraught race relations awarded an honorary education doctorate to Oprah Winfrey Friday, and her visit was welcomed as an acknowledgment of the progress the institution has made toward tolerance.
CHICAGO – The final original episode of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" will air May 25.
Winfrey's Chicago-based Harpo Productions confirmed the date Friday. Winfrey announced live on the show in November 2009 that she would end its run after 25 years. She since has launched cable's Oprah Winfrey Network.
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Oprah Winfrey's big secret is out: she has a long lost sister.
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Oprah Winfrey is thankful for her close relationship with Gayle King, but she wants everyone to know that the two are just good friends.
WASHINGTON — Media mogul Oprah Winfrey and Beatles legend Paul McCartney were among those receiving the 2010 Kennedy Center Honors on Sunday at the Kennedy Center Opera House in Washington, D.C.
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Randy Jackson is furious that his family allowed Oprah Winfrey into their home for an upcoming interview on her talk show.
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Oprah Winfrey's life and career is being made into a movie.
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Oprah Winfrey's new television network, OWN, is launching an investigation into possible foul play surrounding the network's "Your OWN Show" contest.
CHICAGO — A teary Oprah Winfrey officially announced the end of her popular television talk show Friday.
Winfrey, 55, became emotional as she told her fans that bowing out after 25 years "feels right."
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Oprah Winfrey is leaving her popular television talk show in September 2011, her production company announced Thursday.
Oprah informed her staff of the decision to bow out after 25 seasons during a company meeting on Thursday afternoon. Tim Bennett, the president of Harpo, followed by notifying media partners, according to published reports.
The 55-year-old media mogul is expected to make an official announcement on Friday's Oprah Winfrey Show.
The talk-show queen's final show will air on Sept. 9, 2011.
Winfrey is expected to shift her focus to OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network, which is expected to debut in early 2011. She announced the forthcoming cable channel, which is a joint collaboration with Discovery Communications, in January 2008. At the time, she hinted at ending her talk show in 2010 or 2011 and potentially moving it to the new cable channel.
The venture is not Winfrey's first foray into television programming. In 1998, she was an initial investor in the Oxygen cable channel, only to cut ties from the company fairly quickly. When asked about the difference between Oxygen, which was sold to NBC for $925 million, and the latest venture, Winfrey previously said Oxygen "did not reflect my voice."
"I was not a participant in the development of the channel," she said. "That's why after a couple of board meetings I took myself off the board."
With the Oprah Winfrey Network, "I will have editorial control," she continued. "I have a vision for what we want to accomplish with this network."
The Oprah Winfrey Show is the highest-rated daytime talk show, averaging just over 7 million viewers per episode this year.
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LOS ANGELES — Oprah Winfrey is being sued by a former flight attendant on her private jet who alleges she was fired after being accused of having sex during a flight.
In the suit filed on Friday, Corrine Gehrls, 39, claims that flight attendant Myron Gooch and Winfrey's goddaughter, Kirby Bumpus, made false and defamatory accusations that led to her dismissal, Reuters reports.
Gehrls alleges she was fired after the pair claimed she had sex with chief pilot Terry Pansing, 57, during a flight in June. She also claims that Winfrey and Bumpus were both asleep during the flight after taking sleeping pills.
Gehrls and Pansing were both fired even though they passed polygraph tests after the incident, the suit said.
Gehrls is seeking more than $75,000 in damages from Gooch, Bumpus and Harpo Inc., Winfrey's production company.
Bumpus is the daughter of Winfrey's close friend, Gayle King.
Winfrey has refused to comment on the lawsuit.
