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The highest earning what now?
Rich Lists are awful, but I have a soft spot for this one. Every year, for the last 25 years, Forbes has published its Dead Celebrities Rich List. You find your way onto it by 1. dying and 2. earning well over the last 12 months. Yes, it puts a monetary value on a creative life—celebrity, at least here, is earned by creating—yes, it elevates estates that strike big posthumous licensing deals and wring a name or catalog dry, and, yes, Jimmy Buffet wouldn’t be there without res
Matthew Quinlan
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