Michael Jackson has topped the list of the highest earning dead
celebrities. This is the third time in the past five years that the
top-earning celebrity in the world has come from the graveyard.
After being pushed into second place by Elizabeth Taylor last year,
Jackson, who died in 2009, was back on top with estimated earnings of
$160 million in the 12 months from October 2012 to 2013.
“He earned the bulk of his bucks from two Cirque du Soleil shows, his
Mijac Music catalog, recorded music sales and his half of the Sony/ATV
publishing empire – which includes the copyright to hits by the Beatles,
Lady Gaga, Eminem and Taylor Swift, among others,” Forbes said.
Presley was a distant second with $55 million, followed by Schulz,
the creator of the Peanuts comic strip, who came in third for the second
consecutive year with $37 million.
Taylor dropped to fourth place with earnings of $25 million, a huge
dip from last year when her estate pulled in an estimated $210 million
with much of it from the auction of her jewels.
Reggae star Bob Marley rounded out the top five with earnings of $18
million. The singer, who died of cancer at the age of 36 in 1981, has
sold more than 75 million albums in the past two decades, according to
Forbes.
Nobel-prize winning physicist Albert Einstein, dropped one place to
No. 8 this year with earnings of $10 million, while Mexican-American
singer Jenni Rivera, who died in a plane crash in December at the age of
43, was new to the list at No. 13 with $7 million.
Forbes compiled the list by talking to estate managers, lawyers and
licensors and analyzing estimated posthumous earnings between October
2012-2013.
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