2009 richest dead celebrity is Yves Saint Laurent, according to Forbes magazine. The French fashion designer, who died of brain cancer in June 2008, earned $350 million in the past year, when most of his estate was auctioned off at Christie's. For the second time in the last decade Elvis Presley is not the top-earning dead celebrity (Kurt Cobain "achieved" to beat Elvis in 2006). Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein are second with combined earnings of $235 million, followed by Michael Jackson with $90 million, King Elvis Presley with $55 million and J.R.R. Tolkien with $50 million. Charles M. Schulz, John Lennon, Theodor Geisel, Albert Einstein and Michael Crichton close the top 10 list.
After Michael Jackson's This is it opening night this week, the King of Pop is going to be the King of Graveyard in the coming years. You can bet your bottom dollar on it.
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