{"id":270419,"date":"2025-11-04T07:08:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T07:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/270419\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T07:08:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T07:08:13","slug":"barrett-buffett-among-2025s-highest-earning-dead-celebrities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/270419\/","title":{"rendered":"Barrett, Buffett Among 2025’s Highest-Earning Dead Celebrities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two Pink Floyd<\/a> legends are among the dead celebrities who earned the most money in 2025.<\/p>\n

According to Forbes<\/a>‘ annual list, the estates of Syd Barrett<\/a> and Richard Wright<\/a>\u00a0each earned $81 million in 2025 as a result of Pink Floyd selling their catalog and name, image and likeness rights to Sony for $400 million<\/a>. That was good enough for a tie for third place on the list, behind Michael Jackson and children’s author Dr. Seuss.<\/p>\n

The Barrett and Wright estates reportedly split the money from the sale equally with surviving members Roger Waters<\/a>, David Gilmour<\/a> and Nick Mason<\/a>. Barrett and Wright died in 2006 and 2008, respectively.<\/p>\n

Read More: Pink Floyd Live Albums Ranked Worst to Best<\/a><\/p>\n

Singer Jimmy Buffett<\/a> came in at No. 8 on this year’s list, behind the Pink Floyd duo, rapper the Notorious B.I.G., Miles Davis and Elvis Presley. Although he died in 2023<\/a>, Buffett’s Margaritaville empire, which includes clothing, a restaurant chain, drinks, resorts and a cruise line earned his estate a reported $14 million in 2025.<\/p>\n

Bob Marley, John Lennon and Prince also appeared in the No. 9, 10 and 11 spots on this list, which was rounded out by athletes Arnold Palmer and Kobe Bryant.<\/p>\n

Michael Jackson has dominated the list of highest paid dead celebrities since his 2009 death, ranking in first in all but three years. His estate earned an estimated $105 million in 2025 through royalties, a touring musical production and his Las Vegas Cirque du Soleil show, Michael Jackson ONE.<\/p>\n

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Many had their lives cut short by bad luck, addiction or their personal actions.<\/p>\n

Gallery Credit: Corey Irwin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two Pink Floyd legends are among the dead celebrities who earned the most money in 2025. According to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216,3],"class_list":{"0":"post-270419","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}