Oprah’s Least Favorite Things: $1.3 Million Auction of Personal Items
From 18th century furniture, to used clothing, to tasteful female nudes
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Everything Oprah Winfrey endorses—be it key lime pie or a John Steinbeck novel—turns to gold. Now an auction house is hoping the Oprah effect will rub off on stuff the TV star has actually touched, namely the contents of her own apartment. On April 25, more than 500 lots from her former Chicago apartment will be auctioned by the city's Leslie Hindman Auctioneers to benefit the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy Foundation.
In a sense, what's being auctioned is merely leftovers. Winfrey is reportedly not auctioning a good portion of the more personal objects in her 9,625-square-foot Water Tower condominium, which was listed for $7.75 million, then taken off the market late last year.