2011's Top Earning Dead Celebrities 

I've always said, if you wanna earn some real cash in this world...you gotta be dead. Death makes every person who's ever heard of you become a super-fan in hopes that they might be trendier than the next person still enjoying entertainment from the living. Death transformes your works from old, to retro...from wacky to eccentric...from hipster to ahead-of-its-time. Every year Forbes Magazine profiles the top earning people who are no longer on the Earth to actually enjoy the spoils of their talents. In other words, here is Forbe's list of Families Still Mooching Off Their Dead Relatives By Whoring Out Their Name's and Likenesses.

Forbes List Of Top 15 Earning Dead Celebrities