According to numerous reports, Oprah Winfrey and her production company Harpo Inc are being sued for over $1 trillion by author Damon Lloyd Goffe. Goffe, of Bronx, New York, accused the talk show diva of stealing his work and passing it off as her own. Whoa! That’s a lot of dough even for Oprah.
In legal papers filed on July 31 with the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., Goffe claims Oprah published the first draft of his work, “A Tome of Poetry” under another title online, “Pieces of My Soul.” Apparently, the website selling “Pieces of My Soul” is no longer available, but Goffe estimates that Oprah sold over 650 million editions of her his work over the internet at the price of $20 per copy. By his "calculations, that is about 1.2 trillion dollars".
1.2 trillion dollars? Perhaps he should spend the money on a new calculator.
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If this book sold 650 million copies, I think I would have heard of it. This guy is an idiot.
A trillion dollars is more than the GDP of Australia. There's an animation on Youtube that visualized what a trillion dollars looks like.
650 million editions would mean that nearly every American owns 2 editions. 650 million multiplied by 20 USD are not 1,2 trillion dollars. there is no book titles Pieces of My Soul by Oprah Winfrey. If there was, it would be distributed by a publisher and not as a self-published book over the internet as Mr. Goffe claims. Also, Mr. Goffe claimes, that the Will Smith Show is based on his life and that the Real Life is based on his life as well. He also filed suits because of that. And, above all, the so-called Oprah Winfrey Case was dismissed by judge Lamberth in mere two pages because the book Pieces of My Soul does not exist, and thus there is no case.
this idiocy is called business. you always start with a high bid first...
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