by Kolapo Olapoju
Long live the King of Pop; and music, we dare say.
Michael Jackson may have been dead for half a decade, but he is still raking in a fortune every year, and according to a Forbes report, he is top earning dead celebrity in the last calendar year.
Jackson generated a fortune estimated to be around $140 million (N23,030,000,000) from his estates, to top the list for the second year running.
Elvis Presley, who died in 1977, came in second with $55 million (N9,047,500,000), while cartoonist and Peanuts comic strip creator Charles Schulz, emerged the third highest earner, with $40 million (N6,580,000,000).
Forbes wrote, “Few celebrities prove the point that there is financial life after death better than Michael Jackson.”
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