p2pnet news | TV:- “Who’s one of wealthiest and most powerful woman in America?
(Hint: if she likes a book, everyone goes out and buys it. And when various Good Corporate Citizens zeroed in on the fact that for a mere 10%, they could use AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria to boost product sales and profile, America’s Bono and Ms X were at the sharp end.)

Ms X is, of course, Oprah Gail Winfrey who, according to Forbes, is No. 1 on its list of the 20 richest TV names.

“Winfrey, whose media empire includes a magazine and stakes in syndicated daytime talk shows by Dr. Phil McGraw and Rachael Ray, earned an estimated $260 million between June 2006 and June 2007,” says Forbes.

• Jerry Seinfeld is No. 2 with $60 million
• Simon Cowell of Fox’s “American Idol,” third with $45 million.
• David Letterman, ranks fourth with $40 million
• Donald Trump and Jay Leno (both $32 million)
• McGraw and Judy “Judge Judy” Sheindlin (both $30 million)
• George Lopez ($26 million).

‘24′ star Kiefer Sutherland came in at No. 10 with a paltry $22 million.

Meanwhile, the rich are getting richer and thepoor are getting poorer.

“The combined wealth of the world’s richest 225 people (at one trillion US dollars) exceeds the annual income of the poorest 47% of the planet’s population, about 2.5 billion people,” says everything2.com.

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Also See:
Forbes - Oprah Winfrey Is TV’s Richest Celebrity, September 29, 2007
Bono - Bono’s Philadelphia Liberty Medal, September 28, 2007
Ms X - Another red Apple nano, November 6, 2006

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