Oprah Winfrey is worth nearly $3 billion - here's what she spends her money on, including property in Maui, a private jet, and a stake in Weight Watchers
Oprah Winfrey is a media mogul, a philanthropist, and an actress.
Winfrey spends her fortune many ways, purchasing real estate across the globe, investing in businesses, and supporting philanthropic causes.
In 1991, she bought a $42 million private jet, after an encounter with a rude person at the airport.
Source: The Wall Street Journal, INSIDER
That includes an estate in Montecito, California, which she purchased for $52 million in 2001.
Sources: MSN, Business Insider
In 2014, Winfrey purchased a comparatively tiny home (8,700 square feet) in Telluride, Colorado, for $14 million.
Source: MSN
Winfrey shelled out nearly $29 million for a 23-acre horse farm estate, also in Montecito, in 2016. It's called Seamair Farm.
Source: MSN
Her most recent acquisition is a 41-acre estate on Orcas Island in Washington state. It cost her about $8.3 million.
Source: MSN
In 2006, Winfrey and her best friend, Gayle King, went on an 11-day, cross-country road trip, from Santa Barbara to New York City.
Source: Vanity Fair
Winfrey lets others have some travel adventures too: In 2009, she took her staff on a 10-day cruise that cost her a reported $9.2 million.
Source: New York Post
Winfrey and King joined stars like Diane Sawyer at David Geffen's yacht party in 2017. The yacht was reportedly anchored in Sicily, near an exclusive Google retreat.
Source: People
As for Winfrey's business dealings, she was a co-founder of Oxygen Media, which she sold to NBC in 2007 for $925 million.
Source: CNN
In 2015, Winfrey bought 10% of Weight Watchers for $43 million. Her investment is now worth more than $400 million. In March 2018, she sold some of the shares, making $110 million.
Source: CNN
Potentially thanks to Winfrey's involvement (she's also on the company's board and appears in commercials), Weight Watchers has reported a boost in subscriber numbers.
Source: CNN
Her interests in health and wellness continue to influence her spending. In July 2018, Winfrey announced that she had invested in True Food Kitchen, a health-food-focused restaurant chain based in Phoenix, though she didn't reveal how much she'd invested.
Source: CNBC
Throughout her career, Winfrey has also donated time and money to a variety of philanthropic causes.
When she hosted her own talk show, Winfrey was known for giving out gifts to the audience. In 2006, hundreds of fans were each given a $1,000 gift card to donate to their favorite charity organization.
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And in 2007, Winfrey opened The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls, in South Africa. In 2017, she said she'd spent about $140 million over the past 10 years to maintain the school.
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Most recently, she reportedly donated $100 million to the Time's Up campaign.
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