{"id":2132034,"date":"2025-11-03T10:45:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T10:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2132034"},"modified":"2025-11-03T10:45:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T10:45:34","slug":"michael-jackson-named-highest-paid-deceased-celebrity-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/michael-jackson-named-highest-paid-deceased-celebrity-of-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Jackson named highest-paid deceased celebrity of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">\n<p>Late American singer, Michael Jackson, has been crowned the highest-paid deceased celebrity of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018King of pop\u2019 topped the list of the highest-paid deceased celebrities of 2025 recently released by Forbes.<\/p>\n<p>According to the magazine, Jackson earned $105 million over the past year, more than any other late icon by a wide margin.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of Jackson\u2019s recent earnings came from the 2024 sale of a 50% stake in his master recordings and publishing catalog to Sony Music for $600 million.<\/p>\n<p>Other musicians on Forbes\u2019 annual list of top-earning deceased celebrities cover ten of the top thirteen spots including Prince, John Lennon, and Bob Marley. Collectively, the group earned $541 million in the past year.<\/p>\n<p>Since Jackson\u2019s death in 2009, his estate has generated a staggering $3.5 billion, making him the most posthumously successful celebrity of all time.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v9.0&amp;appId=420332301344305\" nonce=\"sm97MhBO\" type=\"pmdelayedscript\" data-cfasync=\"false\" data-no-optimize=\"1\" data-no-defer=\"1\" data-no-minify=\"1\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source dailypost.ng \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late American singer, Michael Jackson, has been crowned the highest-paid deceased celebrity of 2025. The \u2018King of pop\u2019 topped the list of the highest-paid deceased celebrities of 2025 recently released by Forbes. According to the magazine, Jackson earned $105 million over the past year, more than any other late icon by a wide margin. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2132035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[304696],"class_list":["post-2132034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-michael-jackson"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Michael-Jackson-named-highest-paid-deceased-celebrity-of-2025.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2132034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2132036,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132034\/revisions\/2132036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2132035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2132034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2132034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2132034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}