Jackson highest-earning dead celebrity

Five years after his death, singer Michael Jackson is generating a fortune and is the top-earning dead celebrity, raking in an estimated $140m (€109m) in the past year for his estate, Forbes said.

Jackson highest-earning dead celebrity

He earned more than twice as much as singer Elvis Presley, who died in 1977 and came in second with $55m, and three times more than cartoonist and Peanuts comic strip creator Charles Schulz, who took third place with $40m.

“Few celebrities prove the point that there is [financial] life after death better than Michael Jackson,” according to Forbes.

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