Woooow!! Michael Jackson Named World’s Richest Dead Celebrity!!

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.
[Reuters]
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