Forbes magazine's ninth annual list of top-earning dead celebrities was unveiled Wednesday, and surprise, surprise: Neither Michael Jackson nor Elvis Presley held court at the top.
This year, it's hip to be dead.
A clump of the King's hair sells for $15,000, while a shirt fetches $52,000
David Letterman has been in the news for helping police foil an alleged attempt to blackmail him, but the late-night star is hardly the first celebrity in this position.
A Chicago auction house is putting up a clump of the King's locks - along with memorabilia - this weekend
It's arguably one of the largest pieces of Elvis Presley memorabilia ever: a 154.5-acre ranch in Horn Lake, Mississippi, once owned by the king of rock 'n' roll.
He looks just like grandfather Elvis, but 17-year-old Benjamin Presley isn't set to be a singer
The rapper scores his 11th No. 1 album, beating Elvis Presley!
What do Elvis, Kim Kardashian, the Jonas Brothers, Dilbert and teen vampires have in common?
As Elvis croons in the casino chapel, 1-year-old son Valentine walks his actress mom down the aisle
Forbes magazine's ninth annual list of top-earning dead celebrities was unveiled Wednesday, and surprise, surprise: Neither Michael Jackson nor Elvis Presley held court at the top.
This year, it's hip to be dead.
A clump of the King's hair sells for $15,000, while a shirt fetches $52,000
David Letterman has been in the news for helping police foil an alleged attempt to blackmail him, but the late-night star is hardly the first celebrity in this position.
A Chicago auction house is putting up a clump of the King's locks - along with memorabilia - this weekend
It's arguably one of the largest pieces of Elvis Presley memorabilia ever: a 154.5-acre ranch in Horn Lake, Mississippi, once owned by the king of rock 'n' roll.
He looks just like grandfather Elvis, but 17-year-old Benjamin Presley isn't set to be a singer
The rapper scores his 11th No. 1 album, beating Elvis Presley!
What do Elvis, Kim Kardashian, the Jonas Brothers, Dilbert and teen vampires have in common?
As Elvis croons in the casino chapel, 1-year-old son Valentine walks his actress mom down the aisle
Every so often, some magazine or Web site publishes a list of "The Top 10 Songs About Cars and Driving," or something along those lines.
Elvis Presley. Marilyn Monroe. Jim Morrison.
Michael Jackson's financial woes were well documented: Numerous lawsuits, loss of control of his beloved Neverland and reports that he was hundreds of millions of dollars in debt all point to a complex money mess that trailed the King of Pop as vigilantly as his most ardent fans.
Unlike television crime shows in which machines can instantly spit out results, toxicology testing to determine what drugs are in a person's body can be a long and painstaking process.
Presley says her ex was worried he would "end up" like Elvis - and that their marriage was not a sham
Michael Jackson knew "exactly how his fate would be played out" and feared his death would echo that of Elvis Presley, Lisa Marie Presley wrote in an online blog posted Friday morning.
Elvis's daughter shows off 3-month-old Finley and Harper and tells PEOPLE that motherhood at 40 is "blissful"
Plus: Kanye gets the award he says he should have received last year – then gives it away
Elvis Presley may have left the building three decades ago, but he raked in more money last year than many living titans of the music industry
The Jonas Brothers singer receives a golden retriever for his 16th birthday
A guitar burned onstage by Jimi Hendrix and The Beatles' first contract with Brian Epstein are up for sale
"You want to look at me? Go ahead and look,' the singer, 40, says in a revealing new interview
Country singers including Underwood and Rimes will sing with the King on an upcoming Christmas album
Quick, finish this sentence: "I am a ________."
"She is such a fantastic singer and songwriter," says the country legend
But the 40-year-old mom jokes she'd "rather be in bed" than out celebrating
Bette Midler's new show at Caesars is divine, it's de-lovely, it's de Vegas
Her cover of "That's Alright Mama," filmed in an empty arena, hits the Web
Because you weren't going into botany, the priesthood, or coin manufacturing, you thought you were safe to dismiss Latin as a dead language. Obviously, you didn't graduate cum laude.
A handgun stolen from an exhibit during last week's commemoration of the 30th anniversary of Elvis Presley's death has been recovered.
Under a scorching sun at Graceland, his beloved home, fans streamed by Elvis Presley's grave on Thursday, the 30th anniversary of the death of the king of rock 'n' roll. It was, for most, a time to remember.
On the 30th anniversary of his death, a look back at rare and unpublished Life pictures from the King's glory days
Lisa Marie Presley broke down in tears when she heard her duet performance with her father, rock 'n' roll legend Elvis.
1942 -- Tweety forced to wear clothes
What to do when loved ones can't let go of the old you.
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- A story about models and rock stars needs to be written here. After all, long before Sports Illustrated brought the two groups together for this year's Swimsuit Issue, the Chateau Marmont helped facilitate their rendezvous inside the various suites, cottages and bungalows nestled alongside this hill overlooking Sunset Blvd.
As in "Beam me up, Scotty, there's no intelligent life down here....."
Everyone believes a modern-day leader has to generate a few sparks. "You can't pull together resources and people if you don't have the capacity for making other people want to contribute," says Paul Reynolds, a management professor at Florida International University in Miami.
Selma Blair has filed for divorce from actor-writer Ahmet Zappa after two years of marriage.
From Elvis to Ali
What's better: A 4-bedroom, 2-and-a-half bath colonial in a so-so neighborhood or a 3-bedroom, 1-and-a-half bath Georgian in a trendy neighborhood? What about a perfectly maintained Victorian with major driveway and commuting issues versus a neglected ranch within walking distance of a good school and a train station?
Nothing makes a long car ride longer than losing your radio signal in the fourth quarter of a tied ball game. And when the oldies station is cranking out hit after golden hit on a Saturday night, nothing sucks the life out of the party like 17 minutes of commercials. Even if you tune in and hear a great new song Monday morning, you can bet you'll be sick of it after you've heard it 37 times--and it isn't even lunch yet.
There are really two Las Vegases. The first is that mythic patch of Nevada desert called the Strip, whose best-known monuments are a New York skyline and an Egyptian temple.
Here are the motion picture and television nominees for the 63rd annual Golden Globe Awards announced Tuesday. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is scheduled to present the awards on January 16 in Beverly Hills, California.
Elvis left the building 28 years ago, but as a pop icon he's still hot. Over half a million tourists from all over the world stream into the shrine called Graceland each year. When his record compa...
They all laughed when Jefferson bought half the continent from France. Alaska was called "Seward's folly." Other "crazy" investments have worked out fine, too. But some oddball bets fell flat.
Elvis and Vegas go together like peanut butter and bananas. Now an unconventional investor is poised to make Elvis the King of Las Vegas, and everywhere else, with projects like an Elvis-themed casino, Elvis-themed restaurants and a convention-sized Heartbreak Hotel.
It's funny how the word "crusade" has gotten watered down over time.
The King may be dead, but his music lives on.
A gold-plated handgun which belonged to Elvis Presley has been banned from sale in a cable TV auction.
I'm retiring in three months and I'm unsure what I should do with my 401(k). Should I pull it out in a lump sum, put it in my bank, or what?
They were on the verge of extinction. The famed Kahiki, of Columbus, Ohio, had been torn down for a Walgreen's. Aku Aku, in Cambridge, Mass., became a New England fish house. But even 18 months ago...
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This husband-and-wife team admits that moving their polling company from New Jersey to Las Vegas five years ago wasn't a sure thing. They'd found a nice niche conducting surveys for Atlantic City c...
"I Shall Be Released," by Elvis Presley Available in the boxed set Walk a Mile in My Shoes--The Essential '70s Masters (RCA)
$175 Cruise the roads of the Mississippi Delta in a '55 Cadillac. The eight-hour Blues & Blacktop guided tour stops at juke joints and barbecue shacks. See www.americandreamsafari.com.
If you asked Internet retailing experts three years ago who was most likely to suffer from the rise of e-commerce, many would have pointed to distributors. These large disrespected behemoths that m...
Elvis Presley Suspicious Minds: The Memphis 1969 Anthology (RCA)
--Hat size: A stock selling in the single digits, say, between $5 and $8--roughly the sizes in which hats are measured. As in: "This company is headed to hat size."
Just two years ago the Food Network was a flop. Ratings were so low they were almost undetectable. During one ten-month stretch, there were three different owners and three different CEOs. One form...
Okay, so this Rustbelt city isn't Nashville or Woodstock or even Motown. Elvis first rolled his pelvis thousands of miles away, and about the best-known band to spring up hereabouts was the nerdy i...
One day it snowed on Graceland, and Elvis had snowmobiles delivered so that he and his boys could bomb around the Memphis hills. It hardly ever snowed again, so eventually the King had the snowmobi...
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Q. I own 50 AT&T bonds that mature in 2022. They pay 81/8% a year in interest. The company has announced that it is going to split into three parts. How would this change affect my bonds? --BENJAMI...
WHEN YOU'VE GOT IT, FLAUNT IT. AND MUTUAL FUNDS HAVE got it--flashy returns following a year when stocks shot up 37.5% and bonds 18.5%. Now comes the flaunt. Thanks to those numbers, many publicati...
As millions of compact-disk owners toss their old 45s and LP vinyl records, other consumers are snapping up those platters for a song. "Right now is the best time investors will ever have to search...
Your April Money Monitor report, "Fully 95% of Merchants Flunk Our Credit-Card Test," brought back some personal memories. I'm not surprised that your reporters were able to use each other's cards ...
Rare is the moment when a major consumer expense is rolled back to the level it stood at nearly 40 years ago, when Elvis was an unknown and a typical house went for $8,000. But that's what's happen...
MADONNA. Guns n' Roses. Vanilla Ice. M.C. Hammer. 2 Live Crew. Let's face it: You don't really know anything about any of this stuff. You're probably too old or too harried or too stuck on your own...
Finally, after years of unfulfilled promise, small-company stock funds may be ready to rocket again. Okay, we know you've heard that before. But this time, small-stock proponents -- who've had abou...
WHERE'S the letter mailed to you three weeks ago? What happened to that contract you sent yesterday? They're probably mired in your mailroom, where guys in smocks are smoking White Owls or somethin...
It's an investing rule of thumb that the fair market price of an ounce of gold tends to equal roughly the price of a well-made man's suit. Presumably, then, at any given time a speculator could con...
Elvis Presley was not a ''near has-been'' at death, as you said in ''Collectibles'' ((August)). He became too dependent on pills because he had health problems and because he was too stubborn to ha...
Although Elvis Presley died 10 years ago this Aug. 16 as an overweight, drug- abusing, near has-been at age 42, the King today is ''taking care of business in a flash,'' to use his own life's philo...
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