{"id":288883,"date":"2025-11-17T12:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T12:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/288883\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T12:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T12:53:08","slug":"13-celebrities-earning-millions-long-after-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/288883\/","title":{"rendered":"13 Celebrities Earning Millions Long After Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>      They\u2019re the ones keeping the money flowing, the image polished, and the brand alive. Whether it\u2019s a lawyer, a family member, or a big-shot trust company, they control everything from royalties and trademarks to real estate and name rights.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, they turn fame into a business that keeps running, even when the star\u2019s long gone.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In MJ\u2019s case, his kids are beneficiaries of a trust, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/laurengarafano\/austin-butler-hired-a-dialect-coach\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elvis<\/a>\u2019 estate splits profits with a corporation, and Dr. Seuss\u2019 goes partly to educational foundations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They\u2019re the ones keeping the money flowing, the image polished, and the brand alive. Whether it\u2019s a lawyer,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75,9016],"class_list":{"0":"post-288883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-topical"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}