Figures. Swiss Store Clerk Says Oprah Is Lying About Racist Handbag Incident

by Jim Hoft August 13, 2013

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The store clerk at the the Swiss store where Oprah said she was denied good service because of her race says Oprah is lying.

“I don’t know why she is making these accusations. She is so powerful, and I am just a shop girl.”

Oprah accused the clerk of being a racist.

Oprah also compared Trayvon Martin, the Florida teen who was shot after jumping a neighborhood watchman, to Emmit Till, a 14 year-old was brutally murdered in 1955.

XFinity reported:

The sales clerk who was accused of racism by Oprah Winfreyand prompted a national apology from Switzerland claims that Winfrey is lying about the now-famous story.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the nameless women at the center of the firestorm told a local newspaper that as a result of the accusation, she has been thrust into a “nightmare” and now feels “powerless.”

“I don’t know why she is making these accusations. She is so powerful, and I am just a shop girl,” the sales clerk told the Swiss newspaper SonntagsBlick.

Earlier this month, Winfrey told Larry King that while she was in Switzerland, a sales clerk at a boutique store in the area refused to show her a handbag that cost $38,000, allegedly because the clerk thought Winfrey couldn’t afford the bag due to the color of her skin.

“I say to the woman, ‘I would like to see that bag on the shelf.’ And she says, ‘No, that one’s too expensive. I’ll show you this one.’ She did,” Winfrey said in the interview. However, Winfrey never revealed the name of the store, although papers have since claimed it was Trois Pomme in Zurich.

However, the incident didn’t go down like that, according to the clerk.