Celebrity is like taxes , it does not stop after death, and it is thanks to it that big stars today disappeared, manage despite their fatal condition, to gain substantial, and post-mortem, are money. Among these rich ghosts, that of Michael Jackson can boast of being the most lucrative : the late singer continues to earn nearly 140 million dollars a year , offering himself the luxury of a second posthumous album , while paying a disembodied appearance at the Music Awards!
They are dead, but they still earn more than us . Michael Jackson is indeed the celebrity whose salary in the hereafter was the highest between June 2013 and June 2014 , with gains amounting to $ 140 million, according to Forbes . These gains come especially from the release of the second of his posthumous albums, Xscape , already sold to nearly 420,000 copies 4 months after its release. To mark the release of the album, the "ghost" Michael Jackson has even allowed an appearance in the form of a spectacular hologram, Billboard Music Awards , to interpret the title, from the new album, Slave to the rhythm .
In addition to sales of zombie albums and esoteric shows, of course, there are also by-products - that's what's good with dead stars: you can sell everything from mug to the panties wearing their effigy. Living stars are generally more reluctant - and let it know to lawyers. What's more, the dead spend significantly less than the living, and require less maintenance.
The King of Pop, even after his death, remains the musician who has earned the most money in the year, in front of yet very alive Beyoncé , the musician whose salary was the highest , which totaled 115 million dollars for (among others) a new album and 95 concerts. Life is decidedly overrated.
But the famous (and fatally rich) ghosts do not belong only to the world of music, since among the lucrative stars of the afterlife, incongruous guests such as the scientist Albert Einstein (11 million dollars per year) or Charlie Schulz, the cartoonist of Snoopy and Charlie Brown, whose business continues to rake in $ 40 million a year.
Among those who died at the miraculous wage, however, there are mainly singers and musicians, female sex-symbols (often actresses) and actors.
Singers Who Do not Sing
King Elvis Presley is in second place with $ 55 million in earnings, preceding Reggae King, Bob Marley ($ 22 million) and John Lennon ($ 12 million) .
Faded Sex-Symbols
Among the Sex-symbols, Queen Elizabeth Taylor (yes, that's it, she died in 2011 - but continues to win between 20 and 30 million dollars) ahead of platinum blonde Maryline Monroe (17 millions of dollars) and Betty Page ($ 9 million), whose holographic resurrection is also in progress - thiscould be interesting .
The stars are extinct
The actors are not left behind: the sacred child of Kung-Fu, Bruce Lee, continues to garner $ 9 million 41 years after his tragic death, as much as Steve McQueen. Both are slightly more lucrative than the ladies' scorer, James Dean, whose recognition (financially speaking) after nearly 60 years, reaches another $ 7 million.