According to Forbes, Michael Jackson is the top earning dead celebrity, earning an astonishing $115million this year. In his more 30 years solo career, the King of Pop made an impressive over $1.1 billion. But it seems he has proved even more lucrative since his death, making a further $999 billion since 2009.
The impressive sum comes from two Cirque du Soleil shows, his own music and publishing revenues, and his half of the Sony/ATV publishing catalogue.
Michael Jackson’s latest annual income has seen him top a list of the highest earning dead celebrities, complied by financial magazine Forbes.
In second place is Elvis Presley, who has made �36million, Peanuts cartoonist Charles Schulz comes in third with �26million, while fourth place, with �14million, goes to Bob Marley. Elizabeth Taylor rounds off the top five with �13million.
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