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Yves Saint Laurent Tops Forbes Richest Dead Celebrities List
Published by MoonDog on October 29, 2009
Forbes magazine released its 2009 Top Earning Dead Celebrities List on Wednesday, with French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent topping the list.
Some may have thought that Michael Jackson would have been the richest dead celebrity, but the King of Pop was a distant third to Saint Laurent.
According to Forbes, Laurent earned $350 million in the past year. Much of his estate was auctioned off at Christie’s in February. Laurent died of brain cancer in June 2008.
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein rank second on Forbes list with combined earnings of $235 million, followed by Jackson with $90 million, Elvis Presley with $55 million and J.R.R. Tolkien with $50 million.
Cartoonist Charles Schulz, Ex-Beatle John Lennon, rocker Jimi Hendrix and Albert Einstein are among the notables in Forbes top ten of highest earning dead celebrities.
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