Arrest In Oprah Shakedown Plot

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Talk Show Host Allegedly Target Of $1.5 Million Extortion Attempt

A man allegedly tried to extort $1.5 million from Oprah Winfrey by threatening to release taped telephone conversations that he claimed would hurt her reputation, according to a federal complaint.

Keifer Bonvillain, 36, allegedly demanded that a Winfrey representative pay him the money in exchange for 12 hours of recorded telephone conversations he’d had with a Winfrey employee he met two years earlier at a party,

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