{"id":13458,"date":"2016-10-13T10:39:14","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T10:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjstar.co.uk\/?p=13458"},"modified":"2016-10-13T10:39:14","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T10:39:14","slug":"michael-jackson-tops-highest-paid-forbes-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjstar.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/10\/michael-jackson-tops-highest-paid-forbes-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Jackson Tops Highest Paid Forbes List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The March sale of Michael Jackson&#8217;s half of the Sony\/ATV music publishing catalog, famous for its library of Beatles tunes, for $750 million puts him at the top of our annual ranking of the top-earning dead celebrities, an ironic finish given that many critics and even advisors once derided the catalog as a badly overpriced investment. Jackson\u2019s total pretax payday of $825 million ranks as the biggest annual haul by any celeb dead or alive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was always doing stuff that was the best, the greatest, the biggest,&#8221; says Jeff Jampol, who manages the estates of Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and others. &#8220;That was a big fight when he wanted to buy that catalog \u2026 it turned out to be one of the greatest investments ever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/zackomalleygreenburg\/2016\/10\/12\/the-highest-paid-dead-celebrities-of-2016\/#45b96378d2e1\" target=\"_blank\">Forbes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The March sale of Michael Jackson&#8217;s half of the Sony\/ATV music publishing catalog, famous for its library of Beatles tunes, for $750 million puts him at the top of our annual ranking of the top-earning dead celebrities, an ironic finish given that many critics and even advisors once derided the catalog as a badly overpriced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-michael-jackson-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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