An Offer He Couldn’t Refuse
The owner of the house was a man named Robert Veloz, an incredibly rich manufacturer and businessman. And at the time that Oprah happened to be there, his house wasn’t even on sale. But Oprah offered him a staggering $52 million for his property, an amount that hardly any house had ever sold for in 2001, no matter where it happened to be located within the country. And it was an offer that Veloz just couldn’t refuse.
