Oprah Winfrey waves goodbye to her iconic Harpo Studios #HNNMedia

I personally did not want this to happen. That studio was very iconic. I attended the final show of the Oprah Winfrey show there in Chicago.I worked with Oprah Winfrey while I was a young pharmacy student moonlighting as a receptionist at WJZTV in Baltimore where she got her start in the business. 

The tweet below made me sad! Good luck to Oprah who is focusing solely on her OWN network in Hollywood.

Like watching the home you grew up in get torn to pieces. 😢
I loved this place and its people. #FarewellHarpo pic.twitter.com/lwQm3uA9CE

— Oprah Winfrey (@Oprah) 27 July 2016

#HNNShowbiz @Oprah Winfrey says goodbye HARPO Studios in Chicago going on SALE

All good things come to an end! The name of the studio--her name spelled backwards.

Oprah Winfrey is selling Harpo Studios in Chicago to a developer, but the studio will remain on the property for another two years.

Winfrey filmed "The Oprah Winfrey Show" at the studio from 1990 to 2011, when she ended the talk show to start the Oprah Winfrey Network on cable.

"We have entered into a purchasing agreement with Sterling Bay for the four-building Harpo Studios campus in Chicago's West Loop," Harpo told Crain's Chicago Business in a statement. "We expect the transaction to be closed in 30 days. The property will be leased back to Harpo for two years and the studio will continue to produce programming for OWN."

About 200 people work at the 3.5-acre campus, which will sell for about $32 million, Crain's reported Sunday. Harpo said it expects to close the transaction in 30 days.

Winfrey first came to Chicago in 1984 to WLS-TV's morning talk show, "A.M. Chicago." A month later, the show was No. 1 in the market and renamed "The Oprah Winfrey Show" in 1985.

Winfrey moved to Harpo Studios in 1990 and is credited with transforming the once-gritty industrial area to a neighborhood filled with families and trendy restaurants.

In 2011, then-Chicago Mayor Richard Daley named the street outside Harpo Studios "Oprah Winfrey Way."

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RACIST EVENT? OPRAH DENIED PURCHASE OF A BAG BY BOUTIQUE CLERK. NOW SHE IS SAYING SORRY?

Oprah Winfrey (Elise Amendola/AP)

Oprah Winfrey says she’s “sorry” a media frenzy emerged after saying she experienced racism during a trip to Switzerland.

“I think that incident in Switzerland was just an incident in Switzerland. I’m really sorry that it got blown up. I purposefully did not mention the name of the store. I’m sorry that I said it was Switzerland,” Winfrey said.

“I was just referencing it as an example of being in a place where people don’t expect that you would be able to be there,” she continued. Below is the original story but I don't think she's the one to be saying SORRY! Racism is unacceptable.

The Associated Press reports that Talk show host Oprah Winfrey says she encountered racism while shopping in Switzerland — and the national tourism office agrees.

The media mogul, who is one of the world's richest women, told the U.S. program "Entertainment Tonight" that a shop assistant in Zurich refused to show her a handbag because it was "too expensive" for her.

Forbes magazine estimates that Winfrey earned $77 million in the year ending in June.

A spokeswoman for the Swiss tourism office, Daniela Baer, told The Associated Press on Friday "we are very sorry for what happened to her."

The tourism office also posted an apology on Twitter, saying "this person acted terribly wrong."

Winfrey was in town to attend last month's wedding of longtime pal Tina Turner, who lives in Switzerland.

I heard when you go black you never go back but I didn't know when you are black you couldn't buy just any BAG! Shit really happens in this world!

#MsKemi #KOO

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With files from the Globe and Mail

Media News: The Miami Heat Boys talk to Oprah on OWN.

WTH? It's going to clash in the first hour of the BET awards, however it is in two parts. LeBron talked about the fiance marriage thing. Pls marry Savannah soon young man and stop the YadaYadaYada or you'll be engaged like Oprah for 25 years!

Look at Chris Bosh there with the fake grin that some poor Toronto fans wanted to wipe off his face during those playoffs. lol. Below is the Wade guy and LeBron traveling all over to promote the rings and trophy and also Oprah got to talk to Chris Bosh's wife and saw baby Jackson. Meanwhile Savannah was up to bizness of her own looking like the "black" version of Kim Kardashian in that outfit. Could that be WEDDING biz? as the mirror is reflecting on that book she's carrying when she tweeted the world?

Check out the trailer for Part 1 of the interviewing airing this Sunday, July 1, 8pET on OWN. Part 2 Airs Next Sunday, July 8 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on OWN.