When you’re as rich, powerful and influential as Oprah Winfrey, everyone wants a bit of you; some people want your attention, some people want your love and some people want to blackmail you out of $1.5 million with tapes of people slagging you off.

According to reports, the latter has been happening to Oprah Winfrey quite recently. A man from Atlanta has been charged with attempted extortion, after an apparent plan of his to blackmail Oprah with a tape of an employee of hers being less than complimentary backfired and he ended up getting arrested. This all happened last month, but news of the alleged extortion attempt has only just surfaced. Now it’s out in the open, though, Oprah Winfrey is free to start preparing her special Everybody Gets $1.5 Million Except That Sonofabith Keifer Bonvillain, 36, From Atlanta episode.