Top-earning dead celebs of 2015

Oct 31, 2015, 11:19 AM | Updated: Nov 3, 2015, 11:15 am

No time like Halloween for a bit of a morbid list.

Forbes compiled the earnings of celebrities who are still raking in the cash after their demise. Not surprisingly, Michael Jackson tops the list with $115 million this year. According to Forbes, Jackson has earned over $1 billion since his death in 2009. Elvis Presley also made the list even though he’s been dead for nearly forty years.

The list looked at pretax earnings from Oct. 1, 2014 through Oct. 1, 2015. Income from record sales, music publishing, film residuals and licensing were all included.

Here’s a look at the top 13 afterlife earners.

FILE - This 1955 file photo shows actor James Dean. Until the 1950s, jeans had been called overalls or waist overalls, but after teens started referring to them as jeans, Levi’s began using the moniker in ads and packaging. Around the same time, jeans took on a bad-boy image, popularized by teen rebels like James Dean and Marlon Brandy, which led many schools to ban kids from wearing them to class. (AP Photo/File)

11. Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss)
$9.5 million
(Facebook Photo)

FILE - This undated file photo shows legendary physicist Dr. Albert Einstein, author of the theory of Relativity. Einstein was a father who worried his son wasn't taking his geometry studies seriously enough, and that he was indebted to a favorite uncle for giving him a toy steam engine when he was a boy, launching a lifelong interest in science. He also believed the infidelity of a friend's spouse was no big deal. These and other reflections, including personal opinions on God and politics, are contained in 27 letters being offered by a private collector at auction this week. (AP Photo/File)

He and Paul McCartney were friendly again: Stories of a feud between the songwriting duo were legion but by 1972, two years after the group's breakup, the pair were on friendly terms again. So said Beatles historian Robert Rodriguez. (AP Photo)

This image released by Julien's Auctions shows a Marilyn Monroe photograph taken in 1953 by Andre De Dienes. Julien's Auctions Summer Entertainment Sale will feature memorabilia from Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley on June 26 and June 27, 2009, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Julien's Auctions)

In a March 7, 1956 photo provided by the Las Vegas News Bureau, Elizabeth Taylor shops in Las Vegas. Publicist Sally Morrison says Taylor died Wednesday, March 23, 2011 in Los Angeles of congestive heart failure at age 79. (AP Photo/Las Vegas News Bureau)

5. Bob Marley: The reggae icon added $20 million. (Facebook Photo)

In this image provided by United Feature Syndicate Inc. VIA ABC TV, Charlie Brown and Linus appear in a scene from "A Charlie Brown Christmas," a television special based on the "Peanuts" comic strip by Charles M. Schulz. (AP Photo/ABC, 1965 United Feature Syndicate Inc.)

FILE - In this May 1, 1967, file photo, singer Elvis Presley and his bride, the former Priscilla Beaulieu, appear at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas, after their wedding. Presley, 32, and Beaulieu, 21, both from Memphis, Tenn., met while he was stationed in Germany with the U.S. Army. The new Elvis Presley's Graceland Wedding Chapel at the Westgate Resort & Hotel in Las Vegas is scheduled to open on Thursday, April 23, 2015, as part of the new "Graceland Presents ELVIS: The Exhibition - The Show - The Experience" in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/File)

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