Posted on 11/03/2025 10:47:05 AM PST by Whatever Works
For the 25th annual Forbes ranking, The Notorious B.I.G., Miles Davis and Jimmy Buffett join a heavenly lineup of musicians as the greatest earners in the great beyond. Plus: How Michael Jackson earned $3.5 billion in the afterlife.
In 2001, Elvis Presley topped Forbes’ first list tracking the highest-earning celebrity estates, and The King has appeared on every edition of the rankings in the 25 years since, earning over $1.2 billion during that span. Yet it’s another member of music royalty who has truly broken the paradigm for posthumous earnings—Elvis’ onetime son-in-law, Michael Jackson.
The King of Pop’s estate has earned an astonishing $3.5 billion since his death in 2009, according to Forbes estimates, topping this year’s list once again with $105 million in earnings over the past 12 months. “When it comes to estate earnings,” one high-profile estate lawyer tells Forbes, “It’s MJ, then an enormous canyon, then everybody else.”
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Thank you very much and God bless you,
Jim
He was also a huge liberal Democrat. Lots of virtue signaling.
Thanks to AI, Elvis is bigger than ever.
Elvis as Captain Kirk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rA7nyMhKZY
Rock on!
“He said in an interview that it became increasingly awkward to sing his lyrics once he became rich.“
In a related case Bob Dylan said “It’s hard to be an angry millionaire.”
I suggested to JimRob FR should award certain FReepers with recognition for their posts, research, new information, useful volume of contributions. I don’t think anything came of it but you would have been on the list. ;-) Charlie
Blush.
Have you seen this?
Never mind - wrong thread.
David Essex.... ROCK ON.(partial lyrics)
Hey, did you rock ‘n’ roll?
Rock on
Ooh, my soul
Hey, did you boogie too, did ya?
Hey, shout, summertime blues
Jump up (up, down) and down in my blue suede shoes
Hey, did you rock ‘n’ roll?
Rock on
And where do we go from here?
Which is a way that’s clear?
Still looking for that blue-jean baby-queen
Prettiest girl I’ve ever seen
See her shake on the movie screen
Jimmy Dean
(James Dean)
I’d watch that show!
Elvis makes everything better.
Yet his family has blown thru most of it. Priscilla took over and rescued the estate before it was all gone then spent
the money on bad face lifts.
Elvis Presley topped Forbes’ first list tracking the highest-earning celebrity estates, and The King has appeared on every edition of the rankings in the 25 years since, earning over $1.2 billion during that span.
and a leftist.............
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