Celebrity Justice
Mess with the Bull, You Get Oprah's Horns

Posted Oct 5th 2008 8:29AM by TMZ Staff

Oprah WinfreyThe former head mistress at Oprah Winfrey's Leadership Academy for Girls has fired back at the Big O with a defamation lawsuit. Duck and cover!

According to People, Nomvuto Mzamane claims Oprah "launched what amounted to a defamatory campaign" against Mzamane late last year. The lawsuit alleges Oprah implied Mzamane is "untrustworthy, failed the students of the academy, did not care about the students at the academy, knew of alleged physical and sexual abuse at the academy and participated in a cover-up of the alleged abuse."

She's asking for a quarter mil in damages.

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1. All Oprah cares about is her god-like status. She is no longer a celebrity ; she is a cult leader. She would throw anyone under the bus to protect her image.

Posted at 10:24AM on Oct 5th 2008 by morfin

2. I lost all interest in Oprah after she refused to see Sarah Palin on her show. That was not fair. If Sarah Palin was black she would have been on the first possible moment.
Oprah is a goodie 2 shoes who lost a lot of respect from the people in the U.S.
AgainstO means against Oprah and Obama!!

Posted at 10:34AM on Oct 5th 2008 by AgainstO

3. When Oprah got involved in politics, I lost all respect and interest.

Nomvuto Mzamane gets my vote.

Posted at 10:59AM on Oct 5th 2008 by Maxie

4. How much does Oprah weigh now?

Posted at 11:01AM on Oct 5th 2008 by Georgia Girl

5. How does any intelligent person continue to support Oprah? She left the world of real women behind years ago & only opperates in arenas where the adulation or cult like worship is a given. The world of me, me, me!

Posted at 11:33AM on Oct 5th 2008 by cashly

6. A quarter mill from Oprah!?!?!? She's got that in her coin purse. I smell a cover-up....ooops I meant settlement.

Posted at 11:43AM on Oct 5th 2008 by robbino vaughnarooski

7. What comes around goes around!
How about paying your mom's bills. Charity begins at home!

Posted at 1:12PM on Oct 5th 2008 by mickeylou@adelphia.net

8. oprahs,,,,,the great women of our time,,, face it people.

Posted at 2:24PM on Oct 5th 2008 by 8ball

9. 5. How does any intelligent person continue to support Oprah? She left the world of real women behind years ago & only opperates in arenas where the adulation or cult like worship is a given. The world of me, me, me!
Posted at 11:33AM on Oct 5th 2008 by cashly

I have friends who hate Obama but still watch Oprah. Go figure! Anyway I stopped watching her years ago when she made that sneering crack about how her grandmother always hoped she would one day get to work for "nice white folks" & she replied (in a voice dripping with venom) that she now had "nice white folks" working for her. The way she said it was so "payback's a bitch" that I stopped watching her & never looked back.

Posted at 5:02PM on Oct 5th 2008 by romil1

10. oprah sucks I wouldn`t piss on her if she was on fire.

Posted at 5:43PM on Oct 5th 2008 by drew

11. Somebody needs to shut big "O's" mouth. Maybe her bedfellow Obama will help her.

Posted at 6:03PM on Oct 5th 2008 by ObamaSux

12. Oprah lost all credibility when she said she would not use her show as a platform to elevate any particular political figure, thus refusing to have Sarah Palin on her show. (She's only had NOBAMA on...how many times...????)

NOBAMA '08

Posted at 9:27PM on Oct 5th 2008 by NOBAMA '08

13. The same people who consider ORCA Winfrey's opinion important on ANY subject have lots in common with Jerry Springer followers. They have the I.Q. of a golfball and the social graces of a football bat! Why would anyone care what this racist says? The dumbest are the rich white women who patronize her liberal nuttiness and made her believe she is Queen. Eat another 65 buffalo wings chubby.

Posted at 10:26PM on Oct 5th 2008 by LoudUglyAssPorkerO!

14. i use to like her can't stand to see her face or hear anything she has to say she all about her self when it comes down to it

Posted at 11:39PM on Oct 5th 2008 by hollywood resident

15. i use to like her can't stand to see her face or hear anything she has to say she all about her self when it comes down to it

Posted at 11:40PM on Oct 5th 2008 by hollywood resident

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