Oprah Winfrey Responds To Rumors About Harris Endorsement | EUROtoday

Days after an exhausting election cycle, Oprah Winfrey is being accused of accepting cash to help Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential marketing campaign.

The Washington Examiner revealed an article final week investigating the Harris marketing campaign’s spending. The conservative information outlet reported that Harris’ group paid upwards of $15 million for “event production,” together with $1 million paid to Winfrey’s manufacturing firm, Harpo Productions.

On social media, the Examiner’s findings began to tackle a lifetime of their very own, with many characterizing the cash as a payoff to Winfrey herself for endorsing the Democratic nominee.

Harpo Productions responded to these claims in an announcement to Variety, saying the marketing campaign paid $1 million for “production costs” for “Unite for America,” a live-streamed occasion that Harris held with Winfrey.

“Oprah Winfrey was at no point during the campaign paid a personal fee,” the corporate mentioned, in line with Variety.

Winfrey echoed that response. TMZ appeared to ambush the mogul and ask her,“Is it true that they paid you a million dollars for the endorsement for Kamala?”

“Not true,” Winfrey replied on video. “I did not get paid a penny. Ever.”

She additionally made an extended assertion shared by Oprah Daily on X, previously Twitter.

“My production company Harpo was asked to bring in set design, lights, cameras, microphones, crew, producers, and every other item necessary (including the benches and chairs we sat on) to put on a live production,” she wrote. “I did not take any personal fee. However the people who worked on that production needed to be paid. And were. End of story.”