Richest Dead Celebrities

Forbes magazine annual posts a list of the world's richest people. It's interesting. But I just saw another rich list top ten from Forbes that is eerie. It's the top ten money making rich DEAD people for 2009. According to Forbes, the richest dead celebrity isn't Michael Jackson. Although the Jackson's estate has been big news since his death in June, the top-earning dead celebrity is French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent. Too bad Yves can't toast to be number one. He's dead...remember?

Here is the full list and amounts each dead person made in 2008-2009.
1. Yves Saint Laurent- $350 Million
2. Rogers and Hammerstein (Composers who did in the late 70's)- $235 million
3. Michael Jackson- $90 million
4. Elvis Presley- $55 million
5. J.R. Tolkien- $50 million
6. Charles Schulz- $35 million
7. John Lennon- $15 million
8. Dr. Suess- $15 million
9. Albert Einstein- $10 million
10.Michael Crichton- $9 million

If the list is examined it can be seen that some dad guys (they are all men on the list) persevere in death to keep making money. Einstein has been gone along time, yet he is still in the top ten. Surely, Michael Jackson will climb up some as the estate is inflated with Jackson products that it will sell to cash in on his recent death. last year's top ten dead had five different names, all recently dead celebrities. It seems the closer on is to death the more money he makes.

I wonder if there is a list of the poorest dead celebrities? Haha Well, it would be no less pointless as the dead list is. Somehow I doubt that the dead celebrities care.......they didn't take it with them.

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