Forbes List of Top-Earning Celebrities and MJ Fun Facts

Forbes Magazine has released its annual list of the top-earning dead celebrities and the list will surprise you. Included in this posthumous millionaire list are Elvis who earned $55 million in 2015, John Lennon and Bob Marley (who each made $21 million), James Dean, and non-singing celebrities Elizabeth Taylor and Peanuts Charles Schultz. Some circles speak of Michael Jackson as the “Billion Dollar Glove.” Here are a few more Michael Jackson fun facts…

Michael Joseph Jackson was born August 29, 1958 as the 8th child of Joseph and Katherine Jackson in middle class Gary, IN.

Michael and his entire family were raised Jehovah’s Witness. Although called a marriage, the union was more like a merger as Michael married Elvis’s daughter Lisa Marie in 1994.

Michael’s second wife was widely categorized as a publicity stunt, the woman named Debbie Rowe, and she was the mother of his two children.


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