As CEO and chair of Harpo Entertainment Group, Oprah Winfrey is the first black female and the third female ever, behind Mary Pickford and Lucille Ball, to own her own TV- and film-production studio. Harpo Productions, her $20 million, 100,000-square-foot facility, has mushroomed from just 5 employees to 135 since 1985. In 1994, Winfrey's sales reached an astounding $115 million.