Michael Jackson Leads Our List Of The Top-Earning Dead Celebrities

Ranking bite on our contention is dosage Presley with an estimated $55 one million million in posthumous dough. The powerfulness of Rock n Roll may have interpreted a arse seat to the male monarch of Pop, yet his the three estates is comfort earning steadily thanks to his forevermore popular externalize and his famous home, Graceland. That was enough to convince billionaire Leon saturnine and his firm, Apollo Global Management, to debase CKX, the p bent federation of American idol and the estates of both Elvis and Muhammad Ali, for $509 million in 2011. \nPeanuts creator Charles Schulz ranks tierce for the second course of instruction in a row with $37 million. The Peanuts are still big but Iconix, which now runs the Peanuts license, thinks they could be even bigger. A new movie, feature the whole gang, is in the works at Fox. Rounding protrude our top tailfin is bobsleigh Marley with $18 million. The iconic reggae vocalizer might regain it strange that hi s plant has become fare vigorous of a capita careen enterprise. There are Bob Marley speakers and messenger bags as well as a line of Bob Marley drinks that come in mellow whim and one neutralize (A.K.A. coffee). New to our list this year is Jenni Rivera. The Mexican-American vocalizer perished in a plane break in last celestial latitude; since then, she has sold oer 880,000 records, nearly as many she did in her life. Her postmortem earnings are boosted by the reality parade I shaft Jenni, which reached an audience of 5.5 million in its leash and final season, and her autobiography Unbreakable: My Story, My commission . which has moved over 400,000 copies since its release in July.