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"     Oprah Winfrey attends the HBO documentary Beyonc\u00E9: Life Is But A Dream premiere in New York  Oprah Winfrey has raised $600,000 at a charity yard sale. The talkshow presenter hosted an &amp;quot;epic yard sale&amp;quot; at her home in Santa Barbara, California on Saturday (November 2). Around $60,000 of the day&amp;#039;s take was for a set of six 18th century Louis XVI armchairs, according to People. Items came from Winfrey&amp;#039;s homes in Hawaii, Indiana and California, with an auction taking place on Saturday.  Bids went high for some of the most everyday items in her possession, including a teapot which sold for \u00A31,000. Other items included an enlarged print of a TV Guide photo of Winfrey for $3,000, and two 13ft long sofas in crushed velvet for $8,750. All proceeds from the event went towards Winfrey&amp;#039;s Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve been accumulating things since 1985,&amp;quot; Winfrey told Entertainment Tonight. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s just too much stuff. I talk about it a lot in the [O] magazine. We talk about decluttering. And I realized, I need to declutter my own life. It is very freeing. I am downsizing.&amp;quot;  Winfrey currently stars as Gloria Gaines in movie The Butler opposite Forest Whitaker. Watch a trailer below:             "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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