OPRAH WINFREY denied by a store....Saleswoman assumed she couldn't AFFORD to shop there...
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Oprah Winfrey: Swiss store employee denied me service because I'm black
Oprah Winfrey was just named as one of the 2013 recipients of the President's Medal of Freedom. She has countless awards and is one of the world's richest women. And she's co-starring in "Lee Daniels' The Butler," a film that opens up next week. But while in Switzerland last month for Tina Turner's wedding celebration, she says she was denied service at a handbag shop, with a shop assistant telling her the bags were "too expensive" for her.
As Winfrey told Entertainment Tonight on Monday, "I was in Zurich the other day, at a store whose name I will not mention. I didn't have my eyelashes on, but I was in full Oprah Winfrey gear. I had my little Donna Karan skirt and my little sandals on. But obviously 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' is not shown in Zurich.”
She explained further that she had gone into the shop, asked to see a particular bag, and was denied by the shop assistant. When she pressed, the assistant told her "you want to see this one because that one will cost too much. You will not be able to afford that."
The bag, reported the International Business Times, cost $38,000; the store was called Trois Pommes. She left the store without making a purchase.
Winfrey insists the denial came from racism. "There's two different ways to handle it. I could've had the whole blow-up thing and thrown down the (American Express) black card, and all that stuff but why do that? But (racism) still exists, of course it does."
Blick newspaper said that the owner of the boutique has since apologized for the incident, saying it was a "misunderstanding."
This is not the first time Winfrey has been shut out by a store; in 2005 she visited a Hermes shop in Paris and was denied entry. Whether it had to do with her race or the fact that the store reportedly had just closed when she arrived depended on differing versions of events.
http://www.today.com/entertainment/...loyee-denied-me-service-because-im-6C10883523
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZMHdk9xsD10
Oprah Winfrey was just named as one of the 2013 recipients of the President's Medal of Freedom. She has countless awards and is one of the world's richest women. And she's co-starring in "Lee Daniels' The Butler," a film that opens up next week. But while in Switzerland last month for Tina Turner's wedding celebration, she says she was denied service at a handbag shop, with a shop assistant telling her the bags were "too expensive" for her.
As Winfrey told Entertainment Tonight on Monday, "I was in Zurich the other day, at a store whose name I will not mention. I didn't have my eyelashes on, but I was in full Oprah Winfrey gear. I had my little Donna Karan skirt and my little sandals on. But obviously 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' is not shown in Zurich.”
She explained further that she had gone into the shop, asked to see a particular bag, and was denied by the shop assistant. When she pressed, the assistant told her "you want to see this one because that one will cost too much. You will not be able to afford that."
The bag, reported the International Business Times, cost $38,000; the store was called Trois Pommes. She left the store without making a purchase.
Winfrey insists the denial came from racism. "There's two different ways to handle it. I could've had the whole blow-up thing and thrown down the (American Express) black card, and all that stuff but why do that? But (racism) still exists, of course it does."
Blick newspaper said that the owner of the boutique has since apologized for the incident, saying it was a "misunderstanding."
This is not the first time Winfrey has been shut out by a store; in 2005 she visited a Hermes shop in Paris and was denied entry. Whether it had to do with her race or the fact that the store reportedly had just closed when she arrived depended on differing versions of events.
http://www.today.com/entertainment/...loyee-denied-me-service-because-im-6C10883523
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZMHdk9xsD10
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she got mad comfortable, so they had to remind her she still a ?
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Oh no, rich Oprah faced an issue that regular everyday black people face every day. How will she ever recover from this affront.
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i wouldve bought out the whole store
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Oprah's Giant Head Is A Dead Giveaway...Not Sure How That Stupid Clerk ? Confused Her Anybody Else
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I remember this when it happened.
Sorry but I totally would have slapped down my AMEX Black card.
And then left without purchasing ? . -
dalyricalbandit wrote: »i wouldve bought out the whole store
damn beat me 2 it.... lol smh -
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? is fat.
She's at fault here. -
Why would you buy out the whole store when them ? work commission?
I would show her that I COULD buy out the whole store. -
They ll never see my money .... Y'all stupid talking bout buying the store
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By having that money she probably felt she was an honorary white person. Now a white woman put her "back in her place". That's how they do.
That employee knew who she was but she didn't care. They get Oprah in that Switzerland FOH. -
dalyricalbandit wrote: »i wouldve bought out the whole storedamobb2deep wrote: »dalyricalbandit wrote: »i wouldve bought out the whole store
damn beat me 2 it.... lol smh
For what? You'd buy a store out that thought you were too broke to cop their merch? So instead you make em more dough despite them generalizing you? Brilliant logic -
NEWS FLASH MOST OF THESE SO CALLED DESGINERS ARE RACSITST
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Why does this even surprise people Vuitton Hugo boss ect used to make clothes for the nazis
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This right hereMzGrahamBitches wrote: »I remember this when it happened.
Sorry but I totally would have slapped down my AMEX Black card.
And then left without purchasing ? .
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MzGrahamBitches wrote: »I remember this when it happened.
Sorry but I totally would have slapped down my AMEX Black card.
And then left without purchasing ? .
This is new, though.
LOL @ a $38,000 bag. FOH. -
SMH at y'all still getting surprised by White people. Y'all think that because they listen to our music, dress like us, and date some of y'all that they're mentality has changed??? lol FOH with that "We Are The World" ? . You can be Oprah or Jerome and get looked at the same.
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Not shocking at all. The only misunderstanding they had is how did a black person knew that store existed.
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Instead of buyin out the store I woulda bought the actual store and then fired the ? and hired an all black staff
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that cracka prolly make 600 a month yet she ? on oprah damn near billionaire ass
white people stay ? on their followers -
If Oprah was a real ? she would of kicked off, dropped 100k on her, and then had her phone her boss and ask to be fired....and wouldn't of left the shop until the assistant packed her ? and left.
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Wasn't there a thread earlier this week when Oprah says racism is about power(i.e poor whites have no power over her?). Guess, like Paul Mooney said, she just got a ? -wakeup call..
Hahaha at Limbaugh saying Oprah wasn't recognise because she was "fat" and because her "Air Jordans weren't laced up". -
Stop idolizing European designers.. silly ?
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Could've been a language barrier but i doubt it. Funny this comes out after Oprah made those comments earlier. And smh at a $38,000 purse. Unless it comes with a house inside of it then there's no way. And rush Limbaugh needs to be killed.
