Oprah Winfrey's company was paid much more than initially reported $1M for holding Kamala Harris' event

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Oprah Winfrey's price tag for Kamala Harris' event has finally been revealed and is almost double of what was fiercely speculated.

Earlier, reports emerged that Harris' campaign paid Winfrey's Harpo Productions $1 million as part of a very pricey and short run for the White House, but the actual amount paid to her is way more, according to Daily Mail.

Oprah Winfrey was paid close to $2.5 million for Kamala Harris' event

Two people familiar with the matter revealed to the New York Times that the full price of the event with Oprah Winfrey cost closer to $2.5 million.

Interestingly, Kamala Harris' campaign has spent a whopping $100 million per week during her condensed presidential run, which started in late July this year.

Moreover, Harris' supporters are still being flooded with requests for donations after her extravagant $1.6 billion campaign budget left the Democratic Party $20 million in debt, as per the outlet.

Oprah Winfrey was paid $2.5 million for her production firm holding a town hall with Harris in September. She said that she did not keep any of the funds, but paid her team and charged for what the campaign needed for the event. 

Winfrey said, "I was not paid a dime. For the live-streaming event in September, my production company Harpo was asked to bring in set design, lights, cameras, crew, producers and every other item necessary (including the benches and the chairs we sat on) to put on a live production. I did not take any personal fee."

She added, "However, the people who worked on that production needed to be paid. And were. End of story."

Tina Knowles debunks claims that Beyonce was paid $10 million by Kamala Harris campaign

Beyonce's mother Tina Knowles has debunked viral claims that her daughter was paid $10 million by Kamala Harris' campaign for celebrity endorsements. She wrote in an Instagram post that not only was Beyonce not paid for appearing at the Texas rally in October, she even bought her plane tickets by herself.

She wrote, "Beyonce did not receive a penny […] In fact she actually paid for her own flights for her and her team, and total Glam.They are not only lying and disrespecting Beyonce's name but they are trying to further discredit the power of our vice president!"

Since Harris' loss to Donald Trump in the presidential election, many posts have been doing rounds on social media with a list of the celebrities who attended Harris' events throughout the campaign along with the alleged amount they were paid. Beyonce had been featured in almost all of such lists, along with the $10 million sum.

Internet trolls Kamala Harris' campaign for allegedly paying huge amounts for celebrity endorsements

Several internet users trolled Kamala Harris' campaign as insiders allegedly revealed that they paid close to $2.5 million to Oprah Winfrey for celebrity endorsements and also paid huge sums to other celebrities.

Some online comments read, "$1.6 billion spent on this campaign. Not just to lose the election, but to end up $20 million in debt" and "She raised over a billion dollars and ended up spending more than that on a failed campaign."

Another person stated, "ORCA is worth around $3 Bil and still managed to squeeze another million dollars out of Kamala to 'promote her' campaign." One mentioned, "That's the difference between a private businessman and someone in government who never earned a dime."

A user also wrote, "It makes me wonder how much heels-up paid the economists that claimed her economic policy was better than Trump's" while one commented, "They also paid for the audience, participants and extras at those events and functions!"

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