The chat show queen has bought her long-lost, half-sister Patricia Lofton a half a million-dollar home in Wisconsin and given her a monthly allowance so she can quit her job to go back to college and realize her dream of becoming a social worker.
Winfrey, 60, introduced her half-sister to the world on her talk show in 2011 after first learning of her existence the year before.
Oprah Winfrey bought her half-sister Patricia
Lofton (pictured left) a $490,000 home in Wisconsin and is paying for
her to go back to college
Oprah Winfrey bought her half-sister Patricia whom she first met in 2010 this home in Wisconsin
Winfrey bought her sister, who has a grown son and daughter, a four-bedroom, three-bathroom property, according to RadarOnline.
A spokeswoman for Winfrey, who once produced a reality series based on philanthropy known as Oprah's Big Give, said: 'Patricia’s greatest dream was to go to college and become a social worker. Oprah wants to support that dream.'
Winfrey, who is worth an estimated $2.9billion, was born to an unmarried, teenage mother Vernita Lee in 1956 in Kosciusko, Mississippi.
Patricia Lofton was born to Vernita Lee in 1963 while she was living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Unable to cope, Ms Lee had already sent Oprah to live with her father in Nashville, Tennessee.
The luxury home has four bedrooms and three bathrooms and cost half a million
Along with the stunning home, Oprah is giving her sister a monthly allowance so that she can realize her dream and go to college
Oprah said she was happy to help the sister who
found out in 2007 she was related to Winfrey but refused to sell her
half-sibling out in the press
The sumptuous home was bought by billionaire Oprah for $490,000
Ms Lee, who worked as a housemaid, gave up baby Patricia for adoption due to her extreme poverty. Ms Lofton stayed in foster care until being adopted at the age of seven.
Winfrey only learned she had a half-sister in 2010 and the pair met for the first time that year on Thanksgiving. She introduced Ms Lofton publicly to the world on her chat show in 2011.
The sisters reunited after Ms Lofton saw Vernita Lee give an interview discussing her three acknowledged children and began to put the pieces together with the details of her own past.
However it took her several years to get in touch with Oprah and Ms Lofton was fearful of going public because didn't want to 'sell out' her famous sibling.
At the time, Winfrey said finding her sister 'literally shook me to my core' and added that it was 'a miracle'.
Oprah Winfrey greets her long-lost, half-sister Patricia on an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show in 2011
Oprah Winfrey with her mom Vernita Lee in 1994. Ms Lee gave Oprah's half-sister up for adoption because she was so poor
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