Richest Dead Celebs

Lets talk about Halloween. Forbes magazine recently released its ninth annual poll named the richest dead celebrity and its not Michael Jackson, its none other than French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent.

Laurent who died of brain cancer in June 2008, earned $350 million in the past year. Much of his estate was auctioned off at Christie's in February.

Here are those who made it to the list:

2. Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein with combined earnings of $235 million;

3. Michael Jackson with $90 million,

4. Elvis Presley with $55 million; and

5. J.R.R. Tolkien with $50 million.

6. Charles Schulz

7. John Lennon,

8. Theodor Geisel,

9. Albert Einstein, and

10. Michael Crichton