January 08, 2007
Don't mess with Oprah! 36-year-old Keifer Bonvillain learned his lesson the hard way, when he was arrested and charged with attempting to extort $1.5 million from Oprah Winfrey.
A criminal complaint filed in Chicago, Illinois' District Court claims that the Atlanta, Georgia man targeted "a public figure and owner of a Chicago-based company". Local newspapers The Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times named Winfrey as the victim in question.
Bonvillain is accused of illegally recording conversations with a Winfrey employee he met at...