Michael Jackson Tops Forbes List of Dead Celebrities

Just in time for Halloween – or maybe to satisfy our year round morbid fascinations – Forbes has compiled its 10th Annual list of the world’s top money making famous corpses: That is, celebrities who, in death, made more money than you last year, even though you were – presumably – alive (I don’t want to make assumptions). A lot more.




1. Michael Jackson $275 million

2. Elvis Presley $60 million

3. J.R.R. Tolkien $50 million

4. Charles Schulz $33 million

5. John Lennon $17 million

6. Stieg Larsson $15 million

7. Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel) $11 million

8. Albert Einstein $10 million

9. George Steinbrenner $8 million

10. Richard Rodgers $7 million

11. Jimi Hendrix (tie) $6 million

12. Steve McQueen (tie) $6 million

13. Aaron Spelling $5 million