Le celebrità decedute che hanno guadagnato di più nell'ultimo anno (Ottobre 2015 - Ottobre 2016)
Da
Forbes, 12/10/2016
di Zack 'O Malley Greenburg
While the Pearly Gates seemed to welcome an unusual amount of celebrities in the past year (David Bowie, Prince and Arnold Palmer, to name just three), the long-departed King of Pop had the time of his afterlife.
The March sale of Michael Jackson’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’s total pretax payday of $825 million ranks as the biggest annual haul by any celeb dead or alive.
“He was always doing stuff that was the best, the greatest, the biggest,” says Jeff Jampol, who manages the estates of Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and others. “That was a big fight when he wanted to buy that catalog … it turned out to be one of the greatest investments ever.”
In 1985, Jackson paid $47.5 million ($140 million in 2016 dollars) to buy the Beatles-packed ATV publishing catalog. Ten years later, Sony paid him $115 million to form a 50/50 joint venture, then purchased his remaining half in March. In all, the sales (and accompanying distributions) gave Jackson’s estate, which is overseen by lawyer John Branca and music exec John McClain, a 30% annualized return on investment.
Come avrete capito, la vendita del catalogo Atv/Sony da parte dell'Estate ha fatto schizzare Michael al primo posto di questa classifica, non soltanto tra le star decedute ma anche vive, e non solo del 2016 ma di ogni tempo.
Articolo completo Forbes
Classifica 2016:
1) Michael Jackson $ 825.000.000
2) Charles Schultz $ 48.000.000
3) Arnold Palmer $ 40.000.000
4) Elvis Presley $ 27.000.000
5) Prince $ 25.000.000
6) Bob Marley $ 21.000.000
7) Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss) $ 20.000.000
8) John Lennon $ 12.000.000
9) Albert Einstein $ 11.500.000
10) Bettie Page $ 11.000.000
11) David Bowie $ 10.500.000
12) Steve McQueen $ 9.000.000
13) Elizabeth Taylor $ 8.000.000
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