Michael Jackson is world’s top-earning dead celebrity, earned $115m this year

According to Forbes, Michael Jackson is the top earning dead celebrity, earning an astonishing $115million this year.

In his more 30 years solo career, the King of Pop made an impressive over $1.1 billion. But it seems he has proved even more lucrative since his death, making a further $999billion since 2009.

His latest annual income has seen him top a list of the highest earning dead celebrities, complied by financial magazine Forbes.