Hall of Fame
Bill Cosby ($20,000)
Tom Clancy ($237,050)
Tim Gunn ($1,000)
Bobby Flay ($1,000)
Steve Guttenberg ($4,000)
Rhea Perlman ($84,804)
LeRoy Neiman ($250)
Kris Kristofferson ($17,000)
Sophia Bush ($250)
Chris Berman ($7,749)
Kathleen Turner ($35,500)
Frank McCourt ($98,887)
Joan Chen ($1,000)
Keith Hernandez ($7,750)
Danny Ainge ($3,550)
Madonna ($41,000)
Kirk Hammett ($6,000)
Elaine May ($7,000)
Jalen Rose ($4,300)
Dabney Coleman ($2,500)
Ben Harper ($2,000)
Gregg Popovich ($2,000)
Adrien Brody ($2,000)
Marvin Hamlisch ($7,250)
Russell Simmons ($81,000)
Maria Shriver ($19,900)
Alex Spanos ($6,753,460)
Eli Roth ($500)
John Daly ($1,000)
Sean McManus ($1,250)
Wolfgang Puck ($1,700)
Jane Smiley ($13,725)
Peter Magowan ($84,650)
Rob Reiner ($671,783)
Steve Martin ($15,900)
Jaclyn Smith ($3,574)
C Vivian Stringer ($1,750)
Don Johnson ($6,000)
Paul Dooley ($40,800)
Mavis Leno ($4,300)
Helen Mirren ($600)
Ryan Phillippe ($500)
Dave Duerson ($2,500)
Horatio Sanz ($1,000)
Emmylou Harris ($4,050)
Dick Ebersol ($111,250)
Ron Howard ($194,192)
Kenneth Tomlinson ($11,600)
Lionel Richie ($7,800)
David Blaine ($1,000)
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Hall of Fame ► Billionaires
Oprah Winfrey
, 55 (bio ) talk show host, actress
NEWS MEAT Power Rank:
825
Election Picks: 2 wins, 1 loss
$1,000 Republican $18,300 Democrat total: $19,300
Contributor
Candidate or PAC
Election Result*
Amount
Date
FEC Filing
Winfrey, Oprah Chicago, IL 60611 Self employed/Harpo StudiosBarack Obama (D) President OBAMA FOR AMERICAWon $2,300 primary 09/12/07
WINFREY, OPRAH CHICAGO, IL 60600 HARPO PRODUCTIONS DNC SERVICES CORPORATION/DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE (D) - $5,000 primary 11/28/97
WINFREY, OPRAH CHICAGO, IL 60603 DSCC NON-FEDERAL INDIVIDUALS (soft-money donation) - $10,000 primary 10/25/96
WINFREY, OPRAH CHICAGO, IL 60610 HARPO STUDIOSBRAUN, CAROL MOSELEY (D) Senate - IL CAROL MOSELEY-BRAUN FOR US SENATE 1998 INCWon $1,000 general 08/04/92
WINFREY, OPRAH CHICAGO, IL 60601 HARPO INCENGELEITER, SUSAN S (R) Senate - WI ENGELEITER FOR SENATE COMMITTEELost $1,000 general 09/15/88
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* general election result only; "Lost" = didn't win seat for that cycle
Data for this NEWS MEAT report provided by the Federal Election Commission as of 11/2/09 — 17,177,929 records
NEWSMAKERS
political donations of today's newsmakers
US WAR SHEET
Iraq
Afghanistan
Days
2,425
2,953
GIs Killed in Action
3,475
640
DoD
Non-Hostile GI Deaths
885
193
DoD
GIs Severely Wounded
13,880
2,618
DoD
Current Troop Deployment
124,000
68,000
AP
, AP
Total Cost (approved through Sept 30, 2009)
$711 Bln
$219 Bln
AP
Cost Per Day (Avg)
$298 Mil
$75.2 Mil
casualty status updated November 5, 2009
NEWSMEAT HALL OF FAME
individual donations of $200 or more made after 1977
Political donations made by the powerful, rich, and famous.
• Celebrities (actors, musicians, authors, icons)
• Billionaires
• Sports Stars
• Media
• Business Executives
• Politics (pols, players, pundits, shills)
Data Provided by the Federal Election Commission as of 11/2/09
17,177,929 records (election cycles 1980-2010)
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