Eighty-four-year-old man insists he's Oprah's long-lost father. Many little-known details about Oprah Winfrey's life have surfaced since Kitty Kelley's unauthorized biography Oprah went on sale last week. One of those details involves questions about her biological father, and now an old man from Mississippi is stepping forward to insist he's Oprah's dad...and he's begging for a reunion.