Forbes list of the world's highest-paid dead celebrities

Michael Jackson earned $825 million in 2016, the highest earnings for a celebrity dead or alive in any year. Since his death in mid-2009, he has topped the list every year except for 2009, 2012, and 2021–22.

This is a list of the world's highest-paid dead celebrities as ranked by Forbes magazine since October 2001.


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