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The 13 icons on our sixth annual Top-Earning Dead Celebrities list collectively earned $247 million in the last 12 months. Their estates continue to make money by inking deals involving both their work and the rights to use their name and likenesses on merchandise and marketing campaigns. To land on this year’s list, a star needed to make at least $7 million between October 2005 and October 2006. More...
-- Illustrations by Val Bochkov
In Pictures
The Top-Earning Dead Celebrities
By Lacey Rose, Louis Hau and Amanda Schupak
Cashing in while pushing daisies.
Recently Departed
By Lacey Rose
Famous additions to the world’s largest ensemble.
Video: Dead Celebrities’ Second Acts
By Michelle Steele
Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire and John Wayne find new life in the afterlife.
Featured
Smells Like New Revenue
By Louis Hau
Twelve years after his death, Kurt Cobain embraces the establishment.
Wheeerrre's Johnny?
By Lacey Rose
Unless his estate starts releasing more footage, Johnny Carson won’t be gracing our top-earning dead celebrities list anytime soon.
Happy Halloween
Halloween Masks
Illustrations by Val Bochkov; Captions by Lacey Rose
From Lindsay Lohan to Kim Jong-Il, our picks for the year’s scariest people.
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