Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey: GENEVA -- Switzerland is a glamorous playground of the rich and famous, filled with glitterati from princes to movie stars. It's also a land with a sometimes uneasy relationship with foreigners -- especially when they aren't white. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. "She said: 'No, no, no, you don't want to see that one. You want to see this one. Because that one will cost too much; you will not be able to afford that,' " Winfrey, appearing on the U.S. television program Entertainment Tonight," quoted the clerk as saying. "And I said, 'Well, I did really want to see that one.' And she refused to get it." Elise Amendola / The Associated Press Archives Oprah Winfrey says she encountered racism while browsing at a pricey Zurich boutique. CP Billionaire media mogul Oprah Winfrey says she ran into Swiss racism when a clerk at Trois Pommes, a pricey Zurich boutique, refused to show her a $38,000 handbag, telling one of the world's richest women that she wouldn't be able to afford it. Winfrey earned $77 million in the year ending in June, according to Forbes magazine. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.