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She permanently withdrew herself and her show from consideration for a Daytime Emmy Award after being awarded the Lifetime Achievement in 1998. She was quoted as saying, "After you've achieved it for a lifetime, what else is there?" Graduated from East Nashville High School in Nashville, Tennessee (1971), where she was voted most popular. She was ranked first in Entertainment Weekly's 1998 list of the most powerful people in show business, but dropped to sixth in the 1999 list. Still, she was the highest ranking performer, as well as the highest ranking woman, and the only African-American to make the list. Is the first woman in history to own and produce her own talk show. Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1985" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 37. Chosen by "People" magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World in 1997. She and Stedman Graham are teaching "Dynamics of Leadership" class at Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management. [Fall 1999] Awarded (lst) 50th anniversary medal by National Book Foundation, NYC. [November 1999] Gave birth to a baby boy when she was just 14. The baby died after 2 weeks, from complications of being born 2 months premature. Raised in abject poverty, she received her first pair of shoes in 1959 at age 6. She learned to read at age 2½. In fact, when it was time for her to start kindergarten, she wrote a note to her teacher insisting she should be in first grade. The teacher agreed and after finishing that grade she was then skipped to third grade. Born at 7:51 PM EST Added to Forbes Billionare list, making her the first African American woman to do so. [February 2003] Measurements: 36-25-37 (as 18 year-old pageant contestant), 44D-29-40 (in 1990 at 200#+), 36C-25-35 (after 1995 diet), (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine) Ranked #1 Pop Culture Icon on VH1's "200 Greatest Pop Culture Icons" (2003), beating out Superman and Elvis. Purchased a house at 3330 Radcliffe Avenue, West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. This superb 11,000 sq ft waterfront property was on sale for Cdn $18 million, at the time British Columbia's most expensive house, but she paid Cdn $17 million (US$13 million). [June 2004] According to Forbes magazine, her 2005 net worth is $1.3 billion. She was the first African-American women to make the list of billionaires, in 2003. First African-American woman to become a billionaire in American history. Has a cameo playing herself in Throw Momma from the Train (1987). In a "clip" from her show, she interviews a writer (the ex-wife of Billy Crystal's character) whose plagiarized and embellished "life story" is at the top of the bestseller lists (foreshadowing the James Frey controversy twenty years later). Collapsed from heat exhaustion during a recent visit to her hometown of Kosciusko, Mississippi. [October 2006] Has Native American ancestry. Her two-year-old golden retriever, Gracie, died after accidentally choking to death on another dog's ball [July 2007]. In 2006, she earned an estimated $260 million in salary from her various interests including syndication, cable television, and print magazines. Had two half siblings from her mother. Her half brother passed away from AIDS in December 1988 and her half sister, Patricia, died under mysterious circumstances in 2003. Has size 10 feet. Rob Lowe and Ivan Reitman are among her many neighbors.