Oprah Winfrey is helping her half-sister achieve her career goals by paying for her college education and buying her a new house.
The TV mogul-turned-actress shocked fans of her talk show in 2011 by revealing that she had been reunited with her long-lost sister Patricia Lofton, who had been given up for adoption by their mother Vernita in 1963, when Winfrey was nine years old.
Now it has emerged that Winfrey has been helping her younger sibling make ends meet by giving her a monthly allowance so Lofton can throw in her job and focus on her studies.
Winfrey also handed over the keys to a $US490,000 ($A544,837.94) four-bedroom home in Wisconsin for Lofton and her children, according to the National Enquirer.
It quoted Winfrey's representative as saying: "Patricia's greatest dream was to go to college and become a social worker. Oprah wants to support that dream."
