Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
Oprah’s Mom is Deep in Debt
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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SHE IS LUCKY HER DAUGHTER IS ONE OF THE RICHEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD…
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.”
This is pathetic! Oprah must have cut her off.
how you broke and your daughter is one of the richest people in America? smh
Oprah’s probably tired of bailing her deadbeat ***** 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.
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 p***** 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.
Bossip making sumthin outta nuthin..Im sure that ***** gon get paid no doubt. If my daughter was a billionaire, Id be like ill pay that ***** when Im good and ready..lol
Let that Alabama porch gorilla pay her own damn debt. I hate deadbeats.
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 ***** out of you! notice how almost every successful person was missing either a mother or father. ex. Obama
She dosen’t need to help her out.. she probably gave her nuff to live.
No more hand outs
Oprah doesn’t even really seem to like her daughter…she only ever seems t talk about her dad, if anything.
nevermind her mama being broke.. where the hell is her mama’s neck!!!????
my gravie is working… HELLO WORLD
If I remember correctly, Oprah was raised by her daddy cause her mom was not there. In other words, I wouldn’t pay ***** 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 ***** if she wasn’t even there for her when she was young.
WOW….Oprah *SMH
Okay, her momma treated her like a dog growing up and now her momma is using her daughters name to accrue debt that (only O) had money to pay????????? this is just like family trying to leave off of another family members money and fame, this is damn shame, so what this is pocket change for Oprah, but I wouldn’t pay a dime of her debt, make her get a damn job.
uh bossip why are you now talking about old news? Also it’s Oprah with the money not her mother so Vernita don’t need to buy clothes she can’t afford. probably when she is using her daughter’s name to extend her credit and this little publicity stunt isn’t going to hurt Oprah either.
I agree NO MORE HAND OUTS, enough is enough. 1st TI baby momma drama, then CiCi showing her goods on the cover of a magazine, then McCain rolled into a trailer park and asked someone to be VP for the Republican party, then 5 cents swears up and down Jay Z is only know international because of his wife B, I can’t wait for the next story line, life is getting to be a HOT MESS.
Well that is her mother, she can take care of her.
Wait NEGROES her mom didn’t take care of her, treated her like dirt and now is trying to get over. No way.
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
Why are you recycling this old ***** news?
@Bossip wrote, “One would think that if your daughter were a billionaire, $155,547.31 would be but mere pocket change.”
Bossip, you’re in the wrong.
Your attitude is part of the reason why so many folk are in credit trouble today. Her mother is responsible for her own debts — NOT Oprah.
To think otherwise is to operate on the same level as TI’s gold digging baby mama who thinks that just because she spread her legs she’s owed a personal payday on top of her children’s actual needs being taken care of. That ain’t right.
And neither should Oprah be paying for her mom’s spending habits.
As for Oprah’s mom, it’s one thing if the interest payments got out of hand. She’ll need to file for bankruptcy or whatever. It’s another thing entirely if she spent a bunch of money with no intention of EVER paying it back, thinking Oprah was going to bail her out. That’s the height of irresponsibility. She is not a child, and she should not endeavor to make herself a burden to her child just because she gave birth to Oprah.
@Bird wrote, “Why are you recycling this old ***** news?”
Because it’s being recycled elsewhere. Bossip needs to stop citing itself as a source with the lives***** b.s. They probably picked it up from the HuffingtonPost or someone. I know I was just over at HuffPo before coming over here, and Oprah’s mama is one of the rotating lead articles over there with the headline:
“Vernita Lee, Oprah Winfrey’s Mom, Countersues Store For Its $156K Bill”
and more sensationally on it’s front page for Media News (totally tabloid, but HuffPo likes to pull tuO ekaT aideM’s with their headlines):
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“Oprah’s Mom Countersues Store Over $156K Bill: They Should Never Have Given Me Credit”
“MILWAUKEE — Oprah Winfrey’s mother says she shouldn’t have to pay a nearly $156,000 debt to a high-end fashion store because store officials shouldn’t have extended credit to her.
Valentina Inc. alleges that Vernita Lee of Milwaukee racked up $155,547 in purchases and interest as of July 1. The company sued, saying Lee fell behind in minimum monthly payments of $2,000.
Lee filed a counterclaim Friday contending that Valentina took advantage of her “lack of knowledge, ability, and-or capacity” when creating her credit account.
Court papers say Lee resolved a 2002 case with the company over a $175,000 bill. The resolution prohibited Valentina from extending further credit to her.
A message left for Valentina co-owner Tony Chirchirillo was not returned Tuesday.”
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So basically, Bossip left out the meat of the countersuit, in order to talk ***** about Oprah. That’s foul.
The real ‘gossip’ is about Vernita claiming it’s the company’s fault that she racked up such high chrages, by extending credit to her in the first place. My answer is: *****ody held a gun to her head.
But Bossip ignores all that, and the questions it raises, in order to take the side of IRresponsibility. I don’t understand that. I know which side Obama would be on. Why isn’t Bossip there, if they’re supporting him?
“One would think that if your daughter were a billionaire, $155,547.31 would be but mere pocket change.”
Bossip look at this sentence please? The DAUGHTER is the self-made billionaire, Mom’s spending have nothing to do with the DAUGHTER. Sounds like momma needs to stop shopping and either pay her own bills like she’s been doing or file for bankruptcy. Now the media will jump on this story for sure and wonder why Oprah can’t bail out her irresponsible mother, yet again.
Blacksmith
I KNOW THAT’S RIGHT!!!!!!!!!LOL
@thatbrutha – How do you know that? Not trying to be funny but I do want to know so that I can read it
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”
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.
It’s like you have to do ***** for yourself. My mom is very well off and does not want to help me file for financial aid since I’m under 24. She is putting my brother through school and my sister. She even spent 22,000 dollars on my sister’s wedding. I hate her and wishes she would have gotten an abortion so I wouldn’t go through the pain she has gave me.
@ 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.
I know I wouldnt help out too many family members. But your mama is on another level. I dont care if my mama was a mooching crackhead (thank God she’s not) If I’m a billionaire SHE CAN GET WHATEVER. Your mama gave you birth. What’S $200,000 to a billionaire. Let your mama splurge a bit. Who cares it’s just money, you cant take that ***** when you die.
Whatever I got, my mama can get.
Giving her some dough is the least I could do.
Thanks mama, when I get on, I wont dogg you like that. lol
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
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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.
you people are *****ing diguisting
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.
@Nina Knows wrote, “Your mama gave you birth.”
That’s spiritual and emotional blackmail.
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?
Nina knows,come on now. I am sure you have a mom who took care of you, you can’t speak for us who momma has allowed men to use and abuse us, talking from personal experience, if my mom needed 50 dollars fine but 100K plus and it was her own ignorance that got her there, oh well, she better do what she does best (file bankruptcy) and keep it moving.
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…
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.
jordan41(Check me out!)
Nina knows,come on now. I am sure you have a mom who took care of you, you can’t speak for us who momma has allowed men to use and abuse us, talking from personal experience, if my mom needed 50 dollars fine but 100K plus and it was her own ignorance that got her there, oh well, she better do what she does best (file bankruptcy) and keep it moving.
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what do you mean come on now? If that’s how I feel, then that’s how I feel. My mom was an amazing mother, and I’d give her everything I’ve got if she wanted it. I dont have the kind of mother who would use me, so if she did ask me for something, she must really need or want it. Really she wouldnt have to ask me for *****, because if I were a billionaire she’d keep major stacks. But that’s just me, if you wouldnt do the same, then that’s you.
From my person experience like I said before, MY mama can have the world if I had it to give. I could never repay her for what she’s done for me anyway.
Sorry if you came from a abused or broken home, but I didnt. Thank God.
Nita(Check me out!)
@Nina Knows wrote, “Your mama gave you birth.”
That’s spiritual and emotional blackmail.
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How so? That’s a fact. My mom gave birth to me, and it is what it is. She gave birth to me and raise me to be a respectful woman. What’s wrong with taken up for someone who took care of you. ***** I’m super grateful. I feel lucky and blessed my mom wasnt a crackhead, neglectful, hurtful, or a non-supporting person. I guess I’m suppose to be ashamed or something.
I’m not speaking from Oprahs perspective, I’m speaking from mine. My mom gave me something I could never give her…. LIFE with much LOVE,AND CARE.
and actually by NOT having kids because your parents were bad people defeats the purpose of correcting p***** mistakes. She should actually show them up and show them that she CAN BE the mother/caregiver that they could never be to her.
That’s my opinion anyway.
Bossip is full of *****! This is mindless entertainment as Nita said they left out the rest of the story. “God Helps those who Help themselves.” Boosip is so irrelevant I come here for the blogger opinions this is NOT a reliable news source! Bossip is only good for lies, late news and a few laughs!
Nita
Thank you for that information. I am totally confused as to why Bossip would run the old story rather than reporting the new one which is much more juicy. Coming from the mother it sounds stupid for her to say that they shouldn’t have given her credit anyway, but I think it has legal weight. They gave her that credit based solely on the strength of who her daughter is. How much money does the mom make?
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!
I am torn by the comments, but I do love my mother. I wasn’t what you call abused but I was raised by my grandmother. My mom popped in my life when she felt like my life was going the way SHE thought it should go. My abuse was more emotional though. It is hard to trust her because still today she is still cridical (misspelled) of me. I am 34 and very happy emotionally in my life. I am her only child and I know that I am not what she wanted me to be but I am happy with myself. What she needs to realize is I am her only child and I WILL be there when she needs me when she gets old! I love her and thank GOD she had me even though she wished many times I was a boy!! I admire you Nita, the way you feel for your mother. I have four wonderful kids…and no matter what I am going to be there for them. Three boys and a daughter and I WILL BE THE PARENT THAT MAKES THEM PROUD LIKE YOU NITA.*WIPING TEARS*
*critical*
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.
EXCELLENTLY PUT!*WordtotheWise*
@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.
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 *****e….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 *****ociation 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.
@ 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.
@ 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.
@ Slim wrote, “I admire you NINA KNOWS, the way you feel for your mother.”
Slim, your post was beautifully written, but I don’t think you mean tit for me. LOL So I rewrote the quote with Nina Knows name instead of mine.
I think it happens a lot when you’re typing, and two words are similar and you type the word you didn’t mean instead of the word you mean. I do that at work all the time; it’s a ***** when you don’t have a way to correct after sending LOL
But anyway, yeah, Nina Knows loves her mother, openly, and apparently had a great family life. She’s very lucky. She’ll be there for her mother through thick and thin. That’s where Nina Knows is coming from.
So Nina, you definitely deserve the praise Slim gives you.
Vernita doesn’t deserve a dime, and (in my opinion) Oprah shouldn’t be guilt tripped into paying for her mother’s mistakes. Oprah is old enough and mature enough not to be emotionally blackmailed, and not into being forced to PROVE she loves her mother in such a b*****-ackwards and self-destructive way.
That’s no excuse for someone — ANYONE — to take advantage of love. That’s how young boys never turn into men, because Mama is too busy trying to buy their love always bailing them out of trouble and jail, instead of letting them learn their lessons.
Some lessons are hard, but they have to be learned. In my opinion, Oprah does not show her mother love by always bailing her out of bad situations of Vernita’s own making. That is not good parenting, that is not being a good child — that is not Love.
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
This BIG FAT ***** bumpy face greasy bytch should be ashame of herself, trying to stiff those people out of their money, saying her dumb ***** 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.
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.”
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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…..
@slim, that was very nice what you put, and if that compliment was meant for me (thanks to Nita!!) Thank you very much.
@Nita, I agree with you, that people should take care of their own *****. But it was like I was getting flack (from others on here) because I dont feel like that with my own mother. But trust me I had plently of family/life problems, still do, but my mama always came through. (even though she can work a nerve) I knew it was from love. But oh yes, In oprahs case I totally understand your point. If that was the situation. It’s one thing to be an enabler (sp) of bull*****. And one thing to be just a supportative person.
Honestly I’d help anyone, stranger, family, or friend as long as I knew I wasnt being used and taken for granted. Even if I was, I’ll just let that come back on them, on their own.
-last thing, shame on that store for USING oprah and thinking she would foot the bill. I know the mother threw her name out their first, but once her ***** didnt check out right, and if they didnt get offical approval from Oprah they shouldnt have gave her *****. That’s bad business. ***** all celeberites have family, that doesnt mean they ARE the celebrity.
okay that’s my 2cents…. lol
Plus, it’s not a house mortgage or medical or legal bills or even a car note she is behind in, it’s a luxury bill for GOD’s sake!!!!!
SMDH @ celebrity parents and baby momas and daddy’s
Celebrity mom’s believe they ARE the star IE Janice Combs while her son fights on a DAILY BASIS to stay rich and relevant…..
Celebrity baby mama’s take you back to court to try to drain you cuz you don’t want them anymore and have moved on….
Celebrity baby daddies/ex-boyfriends sell your sex tape when you divorce or don’t want them anymore….
WTF is this world comming to???? People don’t just want SOME they want it ALL and get mad if you don’t provide it for them SMDH!!!!
hmm
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!
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 ***** must sink like anybody else.
BIG DEAL.OPRAH PROLLY HAS THAT AMOUNT STACKED UP IN HER PENNY JAR.
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 *****ODY 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.
y does oprah look good
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 ***** story of her mother suffering from dementia and Oprah wouldn’t look after her?
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.
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!