Oprah Winfrey Responds To Claims She Was Paid ‘Personal Fee’ To Endorse Kamala Harris
The media mogul addresses accusations about her support for the Democratic presidential nominee
Days after an exhausting election cycle, Oprah Winfrey is being accused of accepting money to support Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign.
The Washington Examiner published an article last week investigating the Harris campaign’s spending. The conservative news outlet reported that Harris’ team paid upwards of $15 million for “event production,” including $1 million paid to Winfrey’s production company, Harpo Productions.
On social media, the Examiner’s findings started to take on a life of their own, with many characterizing the money as a payoff to Winfrey herself for endorsing the Democratic nominee.
Harpo Productions responded to those claims in a statement to Variety, saying the campaign paid $1 million for “production costs” for “Unite for America,” a live-streamed event that Harris held with Winfrey.
“Oprah Winfrey was at no point during the campaign paid a personal fee,” the company said, according to Variety.
Winfrey echoed that response. TMZ appeared to ambush the mogul and ask her,“Is it true that they paid you a million dollars for the endorsement for Kamala?”
Not true,” Winfrey replied on video. “I did not get paid a penny. Ever.”
She also made a longer statement shared by Oprah Daily on X, formerly Twitter.
“The entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children,” Vance continued, calling out Harris alongside Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.
Harris is a stepmother to her husband’s two children from his first marriage.
When pressed to respond to the outrage, Vance somehow dug himself even deeper, seemingly missing the point about what made his comments about people without children so offensive.
“Obviously, it was a sarcastic comment. I’ve got nothing against cats,” Vance said in an interview on SiriusXM’s “The Megyn Kelly Show” last month, before adding that Harris and Democrats have “pursued a set of policies that are profoundly anti-child.”
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