Dr. Seuss jumps after Hollywood courtship. The estate of Theodor Seuss Geisel (better known as Dr. Seuss) nearly doubled its income in 2020, earning an estimated $33 million in a very Grinch-like year. The bigger payday is thanks to a smart new strategy from the team at Dr. Seuss Enterprises, which transformed the beloved children’s author’s 60-plus books into a multimedia universe. Several other names on our annual highest-paid dead celebrities list have also received huge streaming paydays this year. Additional reporting by Kurt Badenhausen, Abigail Freeman and Ariel ShapiroMETHODOLOGY:Our annual list of the top-earning dead celebrities measures pretax income from October 1, 2019 through October 1, 2020.

Source: Forbes November 13, 2020 11:30 UTC