5 Highest Paid Dead Celebrities Of 2018
While some of us are struggling to make ends meet, others are making money as corpses. For some people, their death doesn’t end their commercial success.
Michael Jackson is one of those people. Once again, he tops Forbes’ list of the highest paid dead celebrities list. This was after hauling in a crazy $400 million over the past year. Let’s take a look at the 5 highest paid dead celebrities of 2018.
5 Highest Paid Dead Celebrities of 2018
Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson
He comes in at number 1 with a whopping $400 million. Jackson died on June 25 at the age of 50 due to overdosing. His posthumous roll still continues. It brings in $287 million from the sale of his estate stake in EMI Music Publishing to Sony. Additional cash comes from his Mijac Music catalogue. Also, there is a new Sony record deal. On top of that, projects like TV special Michael Jackson’s Halloween bring in a lot of money.
Elvis Presley
The musician/actor comes in at number 2 with a cool $40 million. The star died at the age of 42 on the 16th of August due to a heart attack. Every year, he moves more than 1 million albums. However, most of his money comes from tickets to Graceland as well as a new $45 million entertainment complex. The complex is rightfully called Elvis Presley’s Memphis.
Arnold Palmer
The dead athlete who died on September 25, 2016, at the age of 87 made $35 million this year. He died of a heart disease. So how did he make that much? Well, there’s a new edition to his beverage line. This is an alcoholic version made in conjunction with MolsonCoors.
Charles Schulz
Making $34 million this year is the cartoonist, who died at 77 on the 12th of February, 2000. The artist suffered from colon cancer and succumbed to it. In 2017, DHX Media paid a whopping $345 million to get 80% of the Peanuts business previously owned by Iconix.
Bob Marley
This past year, the musician made a huge $23 million. The singer who died at the age of 36 on the 11th of May, 1981, succumbed to cancer. He has many products which include headphones, smoking accessories and Marley Natural cannabis.
