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EXTORTIONIST EYES TELL-ALL ABOUT HARPO: Keifer Bonvillain tried to blackmail Oprah with tapes he's now using for planned expose.
*Keifer Bonvillain, the 37-year-old who tried to extort 1.5 million from Oprah Winfrey, has launched a new Web site in his effort to write a tell-all about the talk show host, titled "Ruthless."
As previously reported, Bonvillain is alleged to have first e-mailed Oprah in October of 2006, saying that she was bad-mouthed by one of her employees. In November, he followed up with a letter to Oprah claiming that he had recordings of those conversations.
Bonvillain allegedly said he wanted to publish a book based on the tapes and that he had received offers of up to $3 million from tabloids and book publishers. But he allegedly agreed to a payment of $1.5 million for the tapes and was arrested when he arrived to receive the payment.
With the launch of his new Web site, Bonvillain is attempting to use those alleged audio tapes to write an Oprah tell-all himself. His pitch reads:
"An office manager at Harpo broke his silence and his confidentiality agreement when he spoke freely about Oprah Winfrey's private life and business affairs. Keifer Bonvillain underestimated one of the world's most powerful women when he, armed with clandestinely recorded tapes, decided to write a 'tell-all' book unmasking the famed celebrity. Within days of Harpo learning about the book, two men were attempting to break into Keifer's home - presumably to get the tapes. Oprah was desperate to keep the truth from being revealed . . . The fallout was Keifer's highly publicized arrest."
According to the New York Post's Page Six, Bonvillain says the expose will disclose that Winfrey's company, Harpo, may have been involved in "blatant discrimination . . . This CEO not only knows about these practices . . . she condones them . . . Hours of taped conversations . . . reveal what they don't want the public to know about [Oprah's] private life, and a business that prides itself on its diversity."
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