The King and Queen earning more money then all your faves even in death
When it comes to earnings, it’s hard to beat Michael Jackson.
Music’s postmortem cash king has earned more than any single living artist since his death.
The pop singer, who died in 2009 at the age of 50, raked in more than any living artist in the past 12 months: $145 million.
But this year that wasn’t enough to get him to the top of our list of the Top-Earning Dead Celebrities. Beating him to the No. 1 spot is his old friend Elizabeth Taylor. The estate of the glamorous actress, who was 79 when she passed away last year, earned a staggering $210 million last year.
Christie’s auctions of the star’s jewelry, costumes and art work, which brought in $184 million. Every one of the 1,800 lots sold. The most expensive item was an 1889 Van Gogh painting that went for $16 million.
Then there’s her perfume, White Diamonds, which is one of the best selling perfumes around bringing in $75 million at retail in 2011, according to Euromonitor.
The rest of the money came from property sales and residuals from Taylor’s movies.
The residuals will keep Taylor on our list, but without the money from the one-time auction, it will be tough for her to beat out the King of Pop again: Jackson’s estate has too many steady revenue streams. Not only does it earn from sales of his own music, Jackson owned a 50% stake in Sony‘s ATV catalog, which includes artists like The Beatles, Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga. His estate also collects money from the successful Cirque Du Soleil show The Immortal Tour.
Our list looks at earnings between October 2011 and October 2012. We count money coming into the estate and we don’t deduct for how the estate handles it.
So for example, some of the proceeds from Elizabeth Taylor’s auction went to her AIDS Foundation, but we did not subtract that contribution from her total earnings.
Full list:
Elizabeth - $210 million
MJ-$145 million
Elvis-$55 million
Charles Schulz-$37 million
Bob Marley-$17 million
John Lennon-$12 million
Marilyn Monroe-$10 million
Albert Einstein-$10 million
Steve McQueen-$8 million
http://www.forbes.com/sites/dorothyp...d-celebrities/
MJ still earning so much money
he's Net Worth: is like worth more then $1 Billion now
http://www.therichest.org/money/mich...son-net-worth/
Einstein 
so cheap
