Oprah’s Mom is Deep in Debt

Posted on October 1st, 2008 - By Bossip Staff

Categories: News, Oprah, Uncategorized

Posted by Bossip Staff

According to Livesteez, Vernita Lee, Oprah’s mother, owes Valentia a couple hundred stacks:

Valentina Inc. sued Winfrey’s mother, Vernita Lee of Milwaukee, in July, contending that she racked up a bill of $155,547.31 in purchases and interest as of July 1. She was required to make a minimum monthly payment of $2,000 to the store, the suit says.

One would think that if your daughter were a billionaire, $155,547.31 would be but mere pocket change.

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  • Hannibal

  • Hannibal

    SHE IS LUCKY HER DAUGHTER IS ONE OF THE RICHEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD…

  • Greeneyed Girl

    People need to realize this is what happens when you don’t raise your kids. Isn’t this a situation that is similar to Shaq. Cause “when your biological didn’t bother.”

  • Black Beauty

    This is pathetic! Oprah must have cut her off.

  • Flawdagurl~{ This is only a test…GOD IS SO GOOD}

    how you broke and your daughter is one of the richest people in America? smh

  • Anon

    Oprah’s probably tired of bailing her deadbeat ass out… bailed her out of the 2002 suit for 175Gs now she’s done it again. I can’t stand these parents who mooch off of their famous children… if they were worthy more than likely their child would gladly provide for them. Notice how Oprah rarely mentions mom whereas dad (is mentioned and on the show occasionally) has become somewhat of a celeb himself.

  • MS K

    I really don’t keep up with Oprah. I find her boring and out touch with the black community. I guess all the donation and charity work her employees does for her buy a pass to be deemed a good person. My question is does Oprah have a relationship with her mom?When i use to watch her back when she was Opfry , i never heard of speak of her mother.

  • Flawdagurl~{ This is only a test…GOD IS SO GOOD}

    oh yeah she didnt raise oprah…. lesson to deadbeats never leave your children b/c when they make something of theirself its like making an ass out of you! notice how almost every successful person was missing either a mother or father. ex. Obama

  • Balls Deep – Get Rid of the Federal Reserve NOW!!!!!!!

    She dosen’t need to help her out.. she probably gave her nuff to live.

    No more hand outs

  • Public Announcement

    Oprah doesn’t even really seem to like her daughter…she only ever seems t talk about her dad, if anything.

  • lala#1

    nevermind her mama being broke.. where the hell is her mama’s neck!!!????

  • Flawdagurl~{ This is only a test…GOD IS SO GOOD}

    my gravie is working… HELLO WORLD

  • who knows

    If I remember correctly, Oprah was raised by her daddy cause her mom was not there. In other words, I wouldn’t pay sh!t for this chick either. If you can’t afford those types of clothes with the job you got, don’t look at me. Oprah don’t owe her sh!t if she wasn’t even there for her when she was young.

  • JustMoi

    WOW….Oprah *SMH

  • Be

    Well that is her mother, she can take care of her.

  • thatbrutha

    Wait NEGROES her mom didn’t take care of her, treated her like dirt and now is trying to get over. No way.

  • B-Nice

    Watch out, everyone Obama knows is being investigated. Oprah supports Obama so that is just a deterrent to down rate the character of someone who supports Obama.

    Trust me this is not news it is conspiracy……

    Obama/Biden

  • http://www.myspace.com/thegameoncw Bird

    Why are you recycling this old ass news?

  • B-Nice

    Blacksmith

    I KNOW THAT’S RIGHT!!!!!!!!!LOL

  • Be

    @thatbrutha – How do you know that? Not trying to be funny but I do want to know so that I can read it

  • Princess Aoki Lee aka BDR

    Adults are responsible for their own debt. Oprah’s Mom did not raise her and abandoned Oprah AFTER allowing her boyfriend and various family members to abuse Oprah.

    And yes I agree the better caption is “Where the HELL IS VERNITA” NECK”

  • Tracey

    Oprah has been through a lot as a child, because her mother did not bring her up. If a mother cannot be a paternal parent, why should a daughter who has made her own life…ALL BY HERSELF, have to bail anyone out? Wasn’t her mom ill the other day, seems like those storied were false, because she was certainly being busy spending money she’d never had in the first place????

    $155.000 dollars would be all people need to start up an enterprise and do something productive…..not blow it all on materal goods one could never afford in the first place.

    Oprah has been about for decades, surely there was work her mother could have sorted out from Oprah if she didnt want to sponge of her daughter?

    I think Oprah spends more on her dogs than her relatives, which is kind of sad, however it is Oprah money and family or not, she can spend it how she feels.

    All I had to say, when Oprah was sexually abused by a family friend, where was her mother and what did her family do….other than try and pretend it never happened? Good on Winfrey, for going through the worst thing in life a child ever has to encounter (other than going to school with no shoes) and making herself America’s true first lady…and a black one at that too.

  • mojojojo

    @ suckmybritt

    OMG are you serious? that is so sad!! but when you make it you know you did it on your own and didnt need no one help.

  • Nina Knows

    Princess Aoki Lee aka BDR(Check me out!)

    Adults are responsible for their own debt. Oprah’s Mom did not raise her and abandoned Oprah AFTER allowing her boyfriend and various family members to abuse Oprah.

    And yes I agree the better caption is “Where the HELL IS VERNITA” NECK

    ___________________________________________________

    LOL, you know what I recant my previous post. I didnt know her mom didnt raise her. I was speaking from a “normal” upbringing. But yes Where is her neck… That is the question.

    Btw, I ALWAYS love all of your post.

  • Ms. T.

    Dang! All this time, I thought that Oprah’s mother was dead. She never mentions her. She only talks about her grandmother and her father.

  • Nita

    @Nina Knows wrote, “Your mama gave you birth.”

    That’s spiritual and emotional blackmail.

  • Nita

    Off subject, is Oprah one of those women who never had biological children because she didn’t want to be the parent her parents (in this case, her mother) were to her?

  • and what…?

    love it. that is true game. I need to stop paying my bills and tell my creditors they shouldn’t have gave me the credit in the first place. How long do you think it will take before I’m arrested for theft and sent to jail!

    Lovin’ mom’s ghetto hustle…

  • fly_guy

    OPRAH is RICH.

    Her MOM is NOT.

    I don’t know the DETAILS –

    but I grew up with a guy

    who made it BIG in the

    business, and his relatives

    were ALWAYS going around

    DROPPING HIS NAME WITHOUT

    HIS KNOWLEDGE to get credit

    from all kinds of people.

    The BUSINESS should NOT

    have extended credit to

    this woman, unless SHE

    (MOMS) could proove that

    SHE could pay HER OWN

    DAMN BILLS.

    LOTS of people PIMP

    the NAMES of well to do

    relatives, and the RICH

    PERSON OFTEN DOESN’T

    KNOW DIDDLY — I have

    SEEN IT WITH MY OWN EYES.

  • http://myspace.com/afiya00 BBC – Afiya

    That’s jacked up when you can’t help your parents…Oprah still holding grudges from when she was a child…get over it!!

    She might have money but she still miserable as hell…always gotta buy friends…that sucks…she only got them friends cause she got money…if she had no money…she would have no friends…

    I don’t like her attitude! COW! :(

    And regardless of what her mother did…that’s still her mother and the bible says to: HONOR THY MOTHER AND THY FATHER! COW!

    :(

  • WordtotheWise

    Here we go with the victim, rescue me attitude. Oprah’s mother is grown. If she couldn’t afford to pay her bills, she shouldn’t spend the money. I’m sick of grown people acting like someone owes them something. Vernita is a grown woman. She should take care of her own debt. Oprah owes her nothing. People don’t learn lessons if someone’s always bailing them out. Take responsibility for your actions and woman or man up to them. If this debt were beyond Vernita’s control, then help, but you pay the cost to be the boss.

    That’s my opinion.

    P.S. I love my mother too death. I take care of her full time, and she knows she could get anything from me; however, a mother is more than someone who gives birth. A mother is a nurturer, gives unconditional love, care, and teaches morals and gives direction. It appears Oprah’s “mother” didn’t do that. Who knows how much O has help her in the past.

  • bria

    @Ms.K Oprah aint hardly out of touch with the black community. She does a lot of things for the black community she just does not have to announce it all the time. What do you do for the black community besides live there and complain. I get sick of black people like you always making stupid comments like that. Get involved in your community if you are not already and then make that statement otherwise shut up.

  • Tracey

    You see I would help; if my mother was being productive and found herself in debt from a failed adventure….I definitely wouldn’t help if the debt came from one entering into one shop and buying a world of unnecessary stuff….or it will never stop, and it seems like Oprah’s mom wants to behave have like a spoilt rich kid who never worked a day in their lives snorting coke….sometimes being cure is to be kind.

    Seems like her mom is not only a child, but is the true selfish one, was never responsible as a mother and is not responsible as a grown adult either…..just being Oprah’s mom comes with media deals, and the ability to get places because of the association with the name…but it appears to me, many of Oprah’s dodgy family members have a LOT to hide.

    There is a lot going on in this family, and no one has the right to wag their fingers at Oprah’s direction.

  • JoJo69

    @ Bria

    Thank you I agree with what you just said b/c fro mwhat I have heard Oprah does a lot for the Black, white and every community but she just does not announce everything she does. Oprah centers her shows around those who are paying and keeping her show a live. I am not mad at her. I do not always look but that is okay I still like her as a person.

  • JoJo69

    @ BBC – Afiya

    None of us really knows what is going on. But from other reports it seems as though this is not the ifrst time her mother has needed to get bailed out of a jam she created. Now if her mom just really needed help like she needed an operation and could not afford it then hey, yeah maybe she should help but to help her out of something that she created and could have avoided, she should not be called a cow over this.

  • Anonymous3 – the fire sign

    so let me get this straight, she is countersuing citing that the company shouldn’t have extended credit to her in the first place….way to turn the tables….use up the credit and then blame your creditors because they should have known better….warped logic if I ever heard it

  • Zoe

    This BIG FAT ASS bumpy face greasy bytch should be ashame of herself, trying to stiff those people out of their money, saying her dumb ass can’t read small print, she’s doing this crap cause OPRAH is her daughter.

    and another thing the store is stupid for letting this mess get out of hand.

  • ohf@ckthat!!!

    Oct 1, 2008 – 10:48 am Greeneyed Girl(Check me out!)

    People need to realize this is what happens when you don’t raise your kids. Isn’t this a situation that is similar to Shaq. Cause “when your biological didn’t bother.”

    __________

    Exactly!!! Oprah Winfrey is the person she is IN SPITE OF her mother, not because her mother raised her so well and protected her from predators.

    Oprah is probably tired of being taken advantage of. I’m sure she gives her mother a healthy 6 figure stipend to live off of, but these celebrity parents need to realize they are NOT the ones making the money so they ARE on a buget.

    A very large one @ that…..

  • Anton Slizzardhands

    hmm

  • http://myspace.com/afiya00 Afiya

    Maybe I have a whole nother perspective of a mother…As long as I have…my momma gonna have…if I’m flossin’…my momma and my daddy gonna floss…You don’t even see Oprah with her mother…the only person you see her with is that chick that is joined at her hip.

    Thank GOD, I was raised to honor my parents…

    I SMH @ how some of you feel about your mother…

    I sure hope she can take that money with her to the other side.

    SMH!

  • UPDOWN

    Nina you have absolutely zero concept about money.

    It’s about her relationship with her mom. Her mom didn’t even believe in her, why should she benefit off of Oprah’s success?

    There is no interest in the NEGLECT AND IGNORANT ACCOUNT. So her fat ass must sink like anybody else.

  • BLYNZ OWN

    BIG DEAL.OPRAH PROLLY HAS THAT AMOUNT STACKED UP IN HER PENNY JAR.

  • Ms. Meme

    First and foremost Oprah retired her mother years ago. She use to speak of her mohter probably before some of you were born. Her mother was not a good mom in so many words when Oprah was raped by her cousin boyfriend in the same house with her mother her mother was not there for her. Her mother would send her back and forth between her dad and her grandmother. So, where does that leave her relationship with her mother “there is not a relationship to have”..Retiring her mother was more than generous and anyway what in the hell does she do in Milwaukee, Wisconsin that she needs to rack up a bill with Valentina to over 100 grand…Come on!!!

    The fact still remains is that her mother is a grown woman and she knows better. oprah for many years would not spend crazy amounts of money like that, but she worked very hard for everything she has and she owes NOBODY anything. She went from being bounced from place to place, raped and molested, pregnant and birthed a son that died, went on to graduate from highschool and went to college and now she is the most powerful woman in the world. It is hers to do whatever she wants with it.

  • http://www.j.com noelle

    y does oprah look good

  • Tracey

    It is amazing how the mother most probably got hold of all this credit by Oprah’s name, yet didnt do anything productive with the credit and now seems to want a daughter she neglected to bail her out.

    Child or parent, if one has a useless blood relative, just do not bail them out, until they show some responsibility, work ethic or something of some substances otherwise it would never end.

    The mother rode her luck when Oprah was sexually abused, and did nothing about it…now she seems to be riding her luck again. AGAIN, wasn’t there some crap ass story of her mother suffering from dementia and Oprah wouldn’t look after her?

  • http://www.freaksonmyspace.com freaksonmyspace

    gotta be real, it’s a lot of family members, even moms, who don’t deserve a dime of their childrens money….especially if they got themselves in the mess.

    unfortunately, I would have a hard time not paying for my moms to get out of bad situation…..but something like this, where she tried to live above her pay grade……she can suffer.

  • jbrook

    It is already well known that Oprah does not communicate with her mom. As a young girl being molested and raped in her moms house by family as well as strange men. Her dad is the one who rescued her from her moms house. He is a humble man who does not even seek money from his daughter. He is happy just knowing that she can more than take care of herself. God bless Oprah & her dad. God help her mother!

  • Rrrrroe Ski Love- A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

    The Bible says honor your mother and honor your father. It doesn’t have stipulations that go with that. Holding people accountable for past transgretions is GODS duty. We are to forgive and to forget. Oprah was bought into this world by her mother, in other words there would be no Oprah if it were not for her mother bringing her into this world. GOD blessed Oprah with riches not her mother. What she does with her money is her business. The bible says too much is given, much is expected. Oprah needs to seek wisdom in finding a solution to this matter. I personally think that her mother should receive an yearly allowance. If Oprah does this for her and she blows it, then it’s on her not Oprah.

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