Stedman Graham is an American businessman, public speaker, educator, and author with a net worth of $10 million. Stedman Graham is well known as Oprah Winfrey’s long-term boyfriend. The two have been dating since 1986.

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He serves as the chairman and CEO of marketing and management consulting company S. Graham & Associates and has worked in the U.S. Army and professionally played European League basketball. Graham has written many books, such as “You Can Make It Happen: A Nine-Step Plan for Success” (1997), “Diversity: Leaders Not Labels: A New Plan for the 21st Century” (2006), and “Identity Leadership: To Lead Others You Must First Lead Yourself” (2019), and joined “The Huffington Post” as a columnist in 2013.

Early Life

Stedman Graham was born Stedman Graham Jr. on March 6, 1951, in Middle Township, New Jersey. Stedman had mother Mary, father Stedman, and siblings Anita, Irvin, Nakoma, Darius, and James. Stedman played basketball at Hardin-Simmons University in Texas. Graham earned a bachelor’s degree in social work in 1974. Stedman attended Ball State University in Indiana and graduated with a master’s degree in education in 1979.

Career

Graham relocated to High Point, North Carolina, to become a professional in public relations, and then he worked at B & C Associates, where he devoted his career to Black causes and represented high-profile clients such as activist Winnie Mandela and writer Maya Angelou. Stedman established the Chicago-based non-profit AAD (which previously operated under the name Athletes Against Drugs), which since 1985 has distributed over $1.5 million in scholarships.

He founded S. Graham & Associates in Chicago in 1988, and he also works as an adjunct professor at Full Sail University. Graham published his first title, “The Ultimate Guide to Sport Event Management and Marketing” in 1995, and his second one, 1997’s “You Can Make It Happen: A Nine-Step Plan for Success,” was a “New York Times” bestseller, as was 2000’s “Teens Can Make It Happen: Nine Steps for Success.” Stedman also provides an “Identity Leadership Nine-Step Success Process” intended to assist people “define, plan and prepare with intention and direction by building a framework for professional growth based on results, performance and excellence.”

Personal Life

Stedman was wedded to Glenda Johnson between 1974 and 1975, and they had a daughter named Wendy on March 1, 1975. Graham was together with KMGH-TV news anchor Robin Robinson from 1982 to 1986, whom he met while working as a tennis instructor at the Denver Country Club.

Stedman met Oprah Winfrey in 1986 when they were both seeing a mutual friend, and they got together after he ended a relationship with his girlfriend a few months later. Graham proposed to Winfrey in 1993, and although she agreed, the couple never married. In 2020, Oprah penned in “O, The Oprah Magazine,” “I knew I didn’t really want a marriage. I wanted to be asked. I wanted to see if he thought I was worthy of being his missus, but I did not want the sacrifices, the compromises, the day-in-and-day-out commitment to make a marriage succeed. My life with the show was first, and we both knew it.” Stedman was awarded an honorary degree from Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, California, in 2019.

Real Estate

Oprah has various houses, and she and Stedman mostly reside in a 20,424-square-foot Montecito, California, estate called “The Promised Land.” The mansion has six bedrooms, 14 bathrooms, 10 fireplaces, a wine cellar, and two home theaters. Winfrey bought the property for $50 million in 2001, and in April 2020, she announced that Graham was residing temporarily in the guest house since he had been on the road throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Oprah had just recovered from a bronchial infection and had suffered from pneumonia the year before, and she explained her choice to have Stedman quarantine in the guesthouse as follows: “Stedman is like ‘What’s the procedure for coming home?’ The procedure is…you ain’t coming and sleeping in my bed! And literally, he goes, ‘I’m not?’ And I go, ‘Have you not been paying attention to the news? Social distancing does not mean you go and sleep in the same bed with the person! When you just got off American Airlines!'”