Oprah Winfrey 235th richest American

Oprah Winfrey is again the richest black person in America. She appears at #235 on the Forbes Magazine 400 Richest Americans list. Her networth was up by $100 million to $1.4 billion.

The Oprah Winfrey Show: 20th Anniversary DVD Collectionis set to be released in November. She owns property in Chicago, Hawaii, Santa Barbara. Gives to needy women, children and families via Oprah's Angel Network and her personal charity, the Oprah Winfrey Foundation.
She recently announced that she will donate $10 million for Hurricane Katrina relief.

Topping the list again this year was Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates with a networth of $51 billion, $11 billion more than the second richest person Warren Buffet whose networth is $40 billion. The minimum networth required to be included on this years list was $900 million.

Google founders Sergey Brin (age 32) and Larry Page (age 32) saw their networth grow to $11 billion each. The partners' meteoric rise in wealth outpaces the rate set by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. Their combined networth was $8 billions last year giving them an increase of $14 billion injust  one year.