You can't take it with you. But your family sure can live off it long after you're gone.
Courtesy of Forbes, here are the lucky 13 highest-earning celebs of 2020, who combined made $259 MILLION and who no longer care about money at all because they are no longer alive:
13.) Marilyn Monroe -- $8 million
I did not know that companies use her name and image to promote their products. But they do, almost 100 of them.
12.) George Harrison -- $8.5 million
Apparently he was a Beatle. 🤷♂️
11.) Freddie Mercury -- $9 million
Legendary pipes, legendary overbite, still banking nearly 8 figs 3 decades after his death.
10.) Prince -- $10 million
Isn't his name actually a symbol? Either way, the man moved 700,000 albums in the U.S. alone this year despite dying 4-1/2 years ago.
9.) John Lennon -- $13 million
Imagine that.
8.) Bob Marley -- $14 million
The OG Rasta died before I was born but still earns more money each year than I will ever see in my life.
7.) Juice WRLD -- $15 million
To everyone who got upset by the fact that I wasn't 100% sure who George Harrison was: Juice WRLD was a rapper who died less than a year ago.
6.) Kobe Bryant -- $20 million
How did Kobe earn so much money after his death, you wonder? I wondered the same. Answer: After he died, Nike sold out of all Kobe merch and people bought up his autobiography to the tune of 300,000 copies.
5.) Elvis Presley -- $23 million
Thought he'd be 1 or 2 tbh.
4.) Arnold Palmer -- $25 million
You probably knew that Arnie was one of the most legendary golfers of all time, but you might not have known that he was also a pitchman extraordinaire.
3.) Charles Schulz -- $32.5 million
Charlie Brown. Nuff said.
2.) Dr. Seuss -- $33 million
Anyone reading this who has raised children knows that the Good Doctor deserves every penny of that $33 mil.
1.) Michael Jackson -- $48 million
$48 million! That is so much money. Almost a milli a week earned by someone who died over a decade ago.
Well, you wanted to know who the top-earning deceased celebs were this year, and I just told you. Now I'm gonna have to ask you to leave.
