Oprah Winfrey Treats Her Long-Lost Half Sister To A New $500,000 Home

Oprah Winfrey is known for  her generosity but this time she is extending it a little closer to home by purchasing a luxury house for her  half-sister Patricia Lofton. The media mogul will also be giving her a monthly allowance so she can quit her job to go back to college and realise her dream of becoming a social worker.

A spokeswoman for Oparah, who once produced a reality series based on philanthropy known as Oprah's Big Give, said: 'Patricia’s greatest dream was to go to college and become a social worker. Oprah wants to support that dream.'

Oprah first introduced her half-sister to the world on her talk show in 2011 after learning of her existence the year before. Oprah who is worth an estimated $2.9billion, was born to an unmarried, teenage mother Vernita Lee in 1956 in Kosciusko, Mississippi.

Patricia Lofton was born to Vernita Lee in 1963 while she was living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Unable to cope, Ms Lee had already sent Oprah to live with her father in Nashville, Tennessee.

Ms Lee, who worked as a housemaid, gave up baby Patricia for adoption due to her extreme poverty. Ms Lofton stayed in foster care until being adopted at the age of seven.
Winfrey only learned she had a half-sister in 2010 and the pair met for the first time that year on Thanksgiving. She introduced Ms Lofton publicly to the world on her chat show in 2011.

The sisters reunited after Ms Lofton saw Vernita Lee give an interview discussing her three acknowledged children and began to put the pieces together with the details of her own past.

However it took her several years to get in touch with Oprah and Ms Lofton was fearful of going public because didn't want to 'sell out' her famous sibling.
At the time, Winfrey said finding her sister 'literally shook me to my core' and added that it was 'a miracle'.





Source: Daily Mail