Muckety mover - post-mortem earning power

Muckety can extend well beyond the grave, and the money counters are already putting Michael Jackson on the list of celebrities whose earning power isn’t slowed by death.

Forbes’ latest list of top-earning dead celebrities, released last October, puts Jackson’s former father-in-law, Elvis Presley, at the top of the list. The magazine reported that the King had earned $52 million over the previous year.

Charles M. Schulz, creator of the Peanuts comic strip, was second.

Actor Heath Ledger, who died in January 2008 before the release of his film The Dark Knight, ranked third.

And the iconic Albert Einstein, whose name graces sneakers, educational products for infants and Japanese coffee, ranked fourth.

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