Posted on 02/09/2017 1:30:00 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
....., according to Bloomberg, she sold a painting by Gustav Klimt for $196 million to an unnamed Chinese buyer....
....Oprah purchased the painting at a Christie’s auction in 2006 for $115 million....
All the money will go to Christians suffering in the middle east of course.
$81 million capital gain.....nice bit of taxes we get from her.
Repealing ZeroCare would cut her tax bill by about $3.1m.
I bet that money is out of the country right now.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/13/arts/design/art-proves-attractive-refuge-for-money-launderers.html
Valuable as Art, but Priceless as a Tool to Launder Money
Trendy Man: “Mr. Melon, your wife was just showing us her Klimt.”
Thornton Melon: “You, too, huh? She’s shown it to everybody.”
I’m guessing that Oprah takes advantages of the various tax breaks provided for a woman-owned and disadvantaged minority business.
Oprah.....disadvantaged....
Now there are two words that are polar extremes. :0)
Okay - I just looked it up - if you have $750,000 or more in net worth you don’t qualify for DBE. I’m guessing Oprah doesn’t qualify!
She can eat more “BREAD”
She can eat more “PIZZA”
Since she loves them.
Agree. But she has EIGHT, count them, EIGHT years (probably more) of an IRS that wouldn’t dare touch her with a 10-ft pole about her tax filings.
IMO, any future filing of hers should be given an IRS forensic financial rectal exam.
From dumb white women like my wife!
Well, I kinda knew, but I didn’t like it. I guess you don’t either.
My wife finally came around about her. We’ve seen both paintings in NYC. The “Woman in Gold” is magnificent.
Is the “Woman in Gold” the one that the movie was made about where the niece of the lady finally recovered the painting from Austria where it was stolen during WWII?
She made 196 million from her Klimterectomy.
Wouldn’t be the first time Oprah put her Klimt for sale.
To be fair she only made a piddling $81 million. Nice investment there Harpo.
Remember when her Selma movie was coming out Oprah was trying to promote her “victim-cred” by claiming she was discriminated against... by a shop girl at a leather shop in Zurich who “wouldn’t show her a $40,000 leather handbag”?
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