36 Pics Show The Inside Of Oprah Winfrey's $90 Million Montecito Mansion

3. Oprah's Staggering Offer

The house then belonged to Robert Veloz, an aeronautical equipment manufacturing giant, and it was not up for sale. Still, that could not stop Oprah getting her dream house. She offered Robert an eye-popping $52 million, which at the time was one of the biggest sales of a private home in the entire country. And what Oprah received, in turn, was equally extraordinary.