Brienne Cross and The Forbes Celebrity List
By J. Carson Black on Jan 21, 2010 with Comments 1
by Greg Dawson
The Ute City New Times, January 17, 2010
ASPEN, COLORADO. Here’s a surprise—-Michael Jackson is not number one on the Forbes top-earning dead celebrities list. Earning 350 million, Yves Saint Laurent is Number One, and Michael Jackson comes in at Number Three with 90 mil. Not to worry, Michael, I’m sure there’s room for growth.
I would have thought pop-star-slash-murder victim Brienne Cross would been at least in the top two or three, but believe it or not, she didn’t make the list at all.
So I have to ask: What do you have to do to make the Forbes celebrity list? How do you break out in a field of famous people still earning money while dead? You would think the brutal Charles Manson-style murders of a rising mega-star and five other innocent people on a reality show would yield better results. What can be more real than that?
As a Coloradan, I see this as a snub.
Yes, I can see why Elvis Presley made the list of dead celebrities—he’s always been a staple on the Forbes list, but where did the other regulars go? Where is James Dean? Where is Marilyn Monroe? And how can Michael Jackson, King of the Celebrities, come in third behind Rogers and Hammerstein?
But most important, where is Brienne Cross?
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i’ve heard that, in Michel Jackson’s case, he was worth more dead than alive when it came to pulling in the big bucks. He had the rights to all the Beatle’s songs, as well as his name, his likeness, all those t-shirts etcetera. His managers can license all these thigs now, and they won’t have such a big drag on their bottom line because he won’t be out there shopping. I watched a British documentary that just boggled the mind. It showed all the shopping he did, how he’d walk into a store and say “I want this one, that one,” and pointed out all these expensive furnishings. Everyone knows he was in deep. As long as he was pointing out $500,000 dollar bric a brac, no matter how many tours he did they’d never break even.
I hear they’re going to open up Neverland, which you have to admit is a good idea. follow the Graceland Model.