Oprah Winfrey sued for £200,000 by former employee she accused of having sex with pilot on $42million private jet

Chat show queen Oprah WinfreyOprah Winfrey is being sued for more than £200,000 over allegations of sex romp on her private jet.

A former flight attendant claims she was sacked after falsely being accused of having sex with a pilot while the billionaire star dozed nearby.

Corinne Gehrls, 39, insists the story of her sleeping with the pilot during a fuelling stopover in the US was false.

She claims another flight attendant - who happens to be Winfrey's goddaughter -

made up the story in a dispute over work.

Gehrls and chief pilot Terry Pansing,57, were fired in July after the allegations of the "mile high" sex were made.

A lawsuit filed in Chicago revealed that the couple both later passed a lie detector test when asked about he onboard sex.

Gehrls claims Winfrey knew the sex allegations were "obviously false" as the plane was on the ground refuelling when the incident was said to have taken place.

The flight attendant said Winfrey and other passengers were "dozing" in their seats having taken sleeping pills for the flight.

She said Kirby Bumpus, the daughter of Winfrey's best friend Gayle King and Oprah's goddaughter, was among those who made up the sex claims.

Another flight attendant Myron Gooch also made the same allegations.

The lawsuit alleges that Gooch made the accusations after Gehrls and Pansing complained that he refused to work as scheduled, asked for his hours to be changed so he could 'attend to his cats', and insisted on staying in better hotels than the rest of the crew.

A spokesman for Winfrey and her Chicago based production company Harpo refused to comment.

The lawsuit seeks damages from Gooch, Bumpy and Harp Productions.

As one of America's richest women with an estimated £25bn fortune Winfrey has a £27m Bombardier luxury jet which she uses to fly between her properties in Chicago and Montecito, California.

Earlier this year she spoke about her custom made Global Express XRS jet, saying: 'It's great to have a private jet. Anyone that tells you that having your own private jet isn't great is lying to you.'

Winfrey, the most powerful woman in television, recently joined First Lady Michelle ObamaMichelle Obama in bidding to win the 2016 Olympics for Chicago.

She joined the Obamas in Copenhagen for the result which saw Rio De Janiera be awarded the games after London 2012.