Oprah Winfrey is famous for her generosity for countless reasons – but this time, the media mogul is spreading the wealth a little closer to home.

The talk show queen bought her long-lost half-sister Patricia Lofton a half-million-dollar house in Wisconsin and gave her a monthly stipend so she could quit her job. to go back to college and realize my dream of becoming a social activist. Worker.

Winfrey introduced her half-sister to the world on her talk show in 2011 after first learning of her existence.

After connecting with he rlong-lost younger half-sibling, the billionaire bought her a home in Wisconsin and gave her an allowance so she could quit her job and complete college

Oprah Winfrey bought her half-sister Patricia whom she first met in 2010 this home in Wisconsin

Winfrey bought her sister, who has a grown son and daughter, a four-bedroom, three-bathroom property, according to RadarOnline.

A spokeswoman for Winfrey, who once produced a reality series based on philanthropy known as Oprah’s Big Give, said: ‘Patricia’s greatest dream was to go to college and become a social worker. Oprah wants to support that dream.’

Winfrey, who is worth an estimated $2.9billion, was born to an unmarried, teenage mother Vernita Lee in 1956 in Kosciusko, Mississippi.

Patricia Lofton was born to Vernita Lee in 1963 while she was living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Unable to cope, Ms Lee had already sent Oprah to live with her father in Nashville, Tennessee.

The luxury home has four bedrooms and three bathrooms and cost half a million

Along with the stunning home, Oprah is giving her sister a monthly allowance so that she can realize her dream and go to college

Oprah said she was happy to help the sister who found out in 2007 she was related to Winfrey but refused to sell her half-sibling out in the press

The sumptuous home was bought by billionaire Oprah for $490,000

Ms Lee, who worked as a housemaid, gave up 𝚋𝚊𝚋𝚢 Patricia for adoption due to her extreme poverty. Ms Lofton stayed in foster care until being adopted at the age of seven.

Winfrey only learned she had a half-sister in 2010 and the pair met for the first time that year on Thanksgiving. She introduced Ms Lofton publicly to the world on her chat show in 2011.

The sisters reunited after Ms Lofton saw Vernita Lee give an interview discussing her three acknowledged children and began to put the pieces together with the details of her own past.

However it took her several years to get in touch with Oprah and Ms Lofton was fearful of going public because didn’t want to ‘sell out’ her famous sibling.

At the time, Winfrey said finding her sister ‘literally shook me to my core’ and added that it was ‘a miracle’.

Oprah introduced her sister Pat to the world on an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show in 2011. The two have the same mother, Vernita Lee and Pat had been given up for adoption at birth

Oprah was born in Mississippi and spent part of her childhood with her mom, pictured with her in 1994, before being sent away to be cared for by her father in Tennessee