Did Oprah\'s Dead Dog Buy Gayle\'s $7M Penthouse?

Did Oprah's Dead Dog Buy Gayle's $7M Penthouse?

Huffington Post via New York Post   |   March 25, 2008 08:19 AM


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In January, Oprah pal Gayle King purchased a $7 million penthouse apartment in New York — and, at the time, we noted that the financing of her apartment was unknown.

This morning's Page Six reveals that the penthouse was "purchased in the name of Oprah's recently departed pooch, Sophie. According to deed-transfer records released yesterday, a company called Sophie's Penthouse LLC bought a $7.1 million full-floor sky palace atop the 36-floor building at 207 E. 57th St."

Oprah's 13-year old cocker spaniel, Sophie, recently died of kidney failure.


 
 

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I think it's so sweet of Oprah to do that for her friend, considering that neither one of them is a lesbian...

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:20 PM on 03/27/2008

Why are Hillary supportters such whiny little bitches? And what does it have to do with Oprah & Gail?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:03 PM on 03/26/2008

Wow, Gayle is really getting porky!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:12 AM on 03/26/2008

There's a lot of LOVE in that relationship; poor Steadman.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:40 PM on 03/25/2008

How much has Sophie and Sophie's littermates given to Barack Obama?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:51 PM on 03/25/2008

I dunno, but my dog squeezed out a big give on the neighbor's front lawn...

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:09 PM on 03/25/2008

OMG, thank you so much for this comment! It gave me a big fat belly laugh today...

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:49 PM on 03/25/2008

I'm glad someone is laughing. My neighbor didn't find it quite so funny. :)

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:03 PM on 03/25/2008

snrgggffffffff (the sound of me snorting water through my nose while laughing). C'mon, it's fertilizer, isn't it? Encourage 'em to think of it as Pupporganite.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:54 PM on 03/25/2008

I've lost what little respect I did have for Huffpost over Ms. Huffington's unrelenting attacks upon Hillary Clinton. Jealous? I think so.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:09 PM on 03/25/2008

You sound like such a victim, PatA, as do so many of Hillary's supporters. Hillary Clinton and her husband can dish it out non-stop (I just heard her say she shouldn't have said she came under attack in Bosnia, wah wah...) but apparently you don't think they can take it --little secret, they can't. So I hardly think it is Ms. Huffington who is at fault. As a lifelong Democrat, I hung in there with Bill and Hillary as long as I could, until they decided they would do anything to win, even destroy the Dems chances in November. So Go Obama, Go.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:08 PM on 03/25/2008

ROFLMAO!!!

Now Go Get A Life & A CLUE!!!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:49 PM on 03/25/2008

...and this relates to the current thread, how?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:37 PM on 03/25/2008

Holy shit! My living dog won't even pay for his own damn food and SHE gets a penthouse from a dead one? Life just ain't fair

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:05 PM on 03/25/2008

Don't get so defensive everyone. Oprah and Gayle are celebrities. They choose to be celebrities and what they do is news. Nobody said whether this transaction is good or bad. It's interesting. That's why you clicked on it.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:02 PM on 03/25/2008

Why did I read this? Why is it anyone's business. You know, Arianna sure has let her site become trashy. If they aren't attacking Hillary, they're repeating tiresome old news items over and over again.

Yawn. Time to find a better site - Huffington Post is sliding down toilet fast.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:57 PM on 03/25/2008

I agree! The Hillary attacks are terrible, then Ariana says we can't have 4 more years of Bush with McCain. Meanwhile, she constantly berates Hillary, because ARIANA IS soooo obviously and Obama girl. So biased, and I no longer eagerly look forward to reading HUFFPO..

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:31 PM on 03/25/2008

Ditto - I come on this site less and less often, and every time I see a stupid story like this one I'm less likely to.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:38 PM on 03/25/2008

...and yet you all feel the compelling need to keep coming back, click through, and contribute your comments. You guys are a bloggers dream!

Maybe you subscribe to "magical thinking" that one day something drastic will happen and this site will become what you wish it to be...the same way you must cling to the delusion that Hillary Clinton has anything more than a snowballs chance in Hell to snag the Democratic party nomination.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:17 PM on 03/25/2008

Oh, well... here I go, falling into the tar pit also. What peeves me about Oprah is that
after acquiring what- a billion or two dollars in cash, real estate, TV, Broadway, publishing... she is still using a beard for those asinine photo shoots for flyover state rubes- "Oprah and Stedman's Sexy Vacation" and other such silliness. What on earth does Oprah Winfrey have to lose by coming
out as a lesbian? I can understand why she was closeted in the 80s and even 90s-- would Oprah's hardcore base of suburban and semi-rural white women embrace a black lesbian? No. But Jezus Effin Christ, this is 2008 for everybody. Well, except John McCain.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:49 PM on 03/25/2008

Ever since my cocker spaniels album went double platinum in europe (he opened for david hasselfloff) we have been looking for creative ways to finance some big purchases...once again oprah leads the way...

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:44 PM on 03/25/2008

Oprah's dog was a lesbian. Therein lies the scandal.
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    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:41 PM on 03/25/2008

...and doggy makes three...

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:18 PM on 03/25/2008

This is such a stupid story. Oprah has every right to spend her money however she chooses.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:39 PM on 03/25/2008

Stupid, stupid headline, and no story. First of all, dogs can't buy real property. Secondly, dead dogs certainly can't buy property. They would have to sign the loan documents and accompanying documentation, and dogs can't write their names, nor can they read . And of course, as much as Oprah loves her dogs, I doubt that the dog had two cents to rub together, let alone $7.1 million. Yes, my comment is as stupid as this story. I'm sure Oprah has many companies in many different names, just as many wealthy people do. She can name the LLC anything she pleases. She named one of her companies after her beloved dog. HuffPo, get over it.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:32 PM on 03/25/2008

Oprah is one helluva best friend. Who wouldn't want to be in Gail's Monolos....?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:27 PM on 03/25/2008

Manolos.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:26 PM on 03/25/2008

I had to google Manolos..............I guess I'm less than hip fashion wise...

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:11 PM on 03/25/2008

If I can't spell it or pronounce it - then I figure I can't afford it.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:39 PM on 03/25/2008

So, the property belongs to Oprah and she lets her best friend live there. What's the big deal??

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:23 PM on 03/25/2008

That headline is quite a stretch. Oprah named her company after the dog and bought her friend a penthouse. So what? Seven million isn't going to strain Oprah's budget, although for some reason I don't understand, her wealth really gets under some people's skin.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:00 PM on 03/25/2008

Nice scheme to circumvent tax laws.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:59 AM on 03/25/2008

I also seemed to have fallen into the tar pit of this posting, what am I doing here?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:49 AM on 03/25/2008

... and a LLC named after Oprah's late doggie Sophie carried out a real estate transaction ... and this rates space in HuffPo ... because ... why? I know filler is hard to come by. All the news portals are full of fluff because no one takes the hard stuff seriously ... or perhaps ... everyone is so discouraged by the hard stuff that the fluff seems a reasonable alternative. Since Britney seems to be cleaning up her life, I reckon Oprah's late dog gets some postmortem attention. Nothin' to see here, folks! Ya don't have to go home, but you can't stay here!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:47 AM on 03/25/2008

what happen you could find a slimes enough story to connect Obama too.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:29 AM on 03/25/2008

Um. I'm boo-boo the fool. Why did I come here? Where's the story?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:48 AM on 03/25/2008

I'm ashamed that I clicked on this asinine story in the first place.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:41 AM on 03/25/2008

It's beyond asinine. It's asi-ten.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:29 AM on 03/26/2008

You and me both, ethancorso!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:43 PM on 03/25/2008

AT LEAST YOU GOT YOU COMMENT POSTED. Maybe that's cause you didn't critize obama. YOU CAN'T DO THAT HERE. Flame Hillary not obama.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:58 AM on 03/25/2008

You and 43P04T34 obviously don't come here much. Because if you did, you'd see that there is PLENTY of cheap, desperate anti-Obama smearing going on on these threads by whiners like you.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:22 PM on 03/25/2008

No kidding.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:31 AM on 03/25/2008

Big deal -- she bought an apartment for her "best girlfriend."

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:20 AM on 03/25/2008

There would be the matter of federal income taxes due if the girlfriend owns it. If the dog owned it and left it to girlfriend, maybe not.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:19 PM on 03/25/2008

You don't pay income taxes on property. You pay property taxes on property. And it doesn't matter who owns it, or that it's owned by a Limited Liability Company (not corporation), there will still be taxes. Oprah's LLC owns it - not a dog. Jesus.