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Author Sues Oprah Winfrey For $1 Trillion
By Allen Starbury ♦ Published 08/07/2009

Oprah WinfreyOprah Winfrey is reportedly facing a staggering $1 trillion lawsuit for allegedly plagiarizing an author's work as her own.

According to ABC2News.com, author Damon Lloyd Goffe has filed a lawsuit in District of Columbia Court on July 31 against the daytime talkshow queen and her Harpo Inc. production company for plagiarizing his book A Tome of Poetry in her internet published work Pieces of My Soul.

In court documents, Goffe insists that Oprah event admitted that she used his original works in 2008: "In April 2008 Oprah confessed to seizing original works of authorship."

The author is seeking $1 trillion in damages, claiming Oprah sold 650 million copies of her book online at $20 a pop, so he's owed $1.2 trillion.

Goffe and his legal team are seeking the huge amount in damages, claiming that as Winfrey sold an alleged 650 million copies of the book online for $20 a time, he is owed $1.2 trillion.

At press time, neither party has commented on the lawsuit.

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  • Philly-O

    OH SNAP, that's a lot of money...

  • GEORGE

    How stupid is this person, a trillion dollars, no one has a trillion dollars. This will get thrown out, because the dollar amount is crazy.

  • http://facebook Theh Ndlovu

    another gold digger!!!!....WTF...$£€!!!!!!!

  • captin california

    dammmmmmmmmmmm rickkkkkkkk

  • BOSCOE

    NO WAY IN HELL! Get off miss forbes # 1 stunna.. better luck settling out of court for pennies on the dollar!

  • http://yahoo limbal

    i don't think oprah will do that. she is a person with honor and pride. she really work for what she had right now.
    go go go oprah many people at your back and beleiving in you.. more power

  • http://www.abriba.com olode

    very good .sue her ass for all she is worth.how can she be running chris breezy down

  • http://www.hiphopaffair.com akaybx

    that's crazy, there's no way...

  • http://www.pappyblog.onsugar.com Paul Cash

    Wow..don't think Ive ever seen a lawsuit that big!

  • Adeko

    Let her pay. An intellectual crime has been committed

  • illestni99ainne

    bwahahaha he might as well have said im suing for a gazillionbajillioncatrillion dollars aint no way he getting that amount

  • Galice

    the book sold 650 million copies? NO FUCKING WAY. There is something not right about this story, shit doesnt add up. Oprah doesnt have CLOSE to a trillion dollars, bill gates doesnt even have HALF a trillion. and to say that Oprah made that much money off a book I never heard of is retarded.

  • jarvis mosley

    man if dude dont succ a d!*# and die. lol

  • GEORGE

    Olode you sound as stupid as the guy that is suing Oprah. I hope you are at least a 15 year-old girl, because if you're a grown woman you should be shamed and if you're a man, you need your ass whipped.

  • brandi

    olode sound stupid as hell

  • http://ballerstatus.com M.I.L.F

    I think the story has been Exaggerated, people has taken small portions of info and ran with it, just think about it she's not even worth a trillion LMAO at the story, but I don't doubt she's getting sued....

  • http://dvsinc.blogspot.com/ VENGEANCE IS MINE!!!!!!!!!!

    MY LAWYER TAUGHT ME: NEVER ADMIT TO ANYTHING!!!!

  • http://undressingher.com undressingHER

    i doubt oprah would steal anything. If anything, someone she knew got some stuff from somewhere else, then it got copied. 1.2 trillion, lmao. Oprah doesnt even have half a trillion.

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