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Sep 29, 2007 7:23 am US/Eastern

Forbes: Oprah Winfrey Top Earning TV Celebrity

Oprah Earned $260 Million

Seinfeld Came in 2nd With $60 Million

 Slideshow: Top Earning TV Celebrities
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NEW YORK (CBS4) ― Talk doesn't come cheap especially when it comes to daytime talk show queen Oprah Winfrey who has earned the distinction of the highest paid TV celebrity.

Financial magazine Forbes published a list of highest paid TV celebrities and Oprah Winfrey leads the way by earning $260 million between June 2006 and June 2007. Nobody else came close.

Second in the list was Jerry Seinfeld earning $60 million. The money comes mostly from reruns of his co-owned 1990's sitcom "Seinfeld."

Winfrey was joined at the top of the list by another talk show host, David Letterman, who landed at No. 4 by raking in $40 million in the same period from his "Late Night with David Letterman."

Simon Cowell, the arrogant and harshly critical judge on "American Idol" earned $45 million to land at No. 3, and Donald Trump, whose boisterous exclamation "You're Fired" from the reality show "The Apprentice" was No. 5 with $32 million.

The remaining top 20 is as follows;

6. Jay Leno, $32 million
7. Dr. Phil McGraw, $30 million
8. "Judge" Judy Sheindlin, $30 million
9. George Lopez, $26 million
10. Kiefer Sutherland, $22 million
11. Regis Philbin, $21 million
12. Tyra Banks, $18 million
13. Rachael Ray, $16 million,
14. Katie Couric, $15 million
15. Ellen DeGeneres, $15 million
16. Ryan Seacrest, $14 million
17. Matt Lauer, $13 million
18, Barbara Walters, $12 million
19. Diane Sawyer, $12 million
20. Meredith Vieira, $10 million

(© 2007 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)

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