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Michael Jackson’s Still in the Money, Tops Forbes List of Highest-Paid Dead Celebs with $825 Million

Michael Jackson died seven years ago, but he is still making lots of money.

Forbes has named the late King Of Pop as the top-earning dead celebrity of 2016. He earned $825 million, partly due to his estate’s decision to sell his half-share of the Beatles catalogue to Sony for $750 million.

Michael purchased the rights to the Beatles’ music back in 1984 for $47.5 million and then sold 50 percent of it to Sony in 1995 for $115 million. His remaining share was sold to Sony in March of this year.

Peanuts creator Charles Schulz came in as a distant second, with earnings of $48 million. He died in 2000, but continues to rake in millions of dollars because of money from licensing.

Golfer Arnold Palmer died on September 25th at 87, and came in third on the list – but most of his $40 million in earnings were made while he was still alive.

Elvis Presley, who died at 42 years old back in 1977, is ranked number four with $27 million, while Prince – who passed away in April – is listed at number five with $25 million.

Bob Marley’s estate earned $21 million this year, 25 years after his death, and Dr. Seuss came in at number seven with $20 millio

New CoverGirl Is Instagram Sensation James Charles

CoverGirl’s current spokesperson, Katy Perry, announced James Charles as the first ever “CoverBoy” on her Instagram page.

Charles, a 17-year-old “aspiring makeup artist,” started using makeup only a year ago. He will appear in TV, print, and digital ads for “So Lashy” mascara later this month and will work with CoverGirl through 2017.

CoverGirl says it wants to work with “role models and boundary-breakers, fearlessly expressing themselves, standing up for what they believe, and redefining what it means to be beautiful.”

The company calls Charles an inspiration.

 

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Kim Kardashian Held At Gunpoint In Paris; Kanye West Halts Show

Rapper Kanye West abruptly left his set early at the Meadows Festival in New York on Sunday night after being told his wife, Kim Kardashian West, was held at gunpoint in her Paris hotel room.

Later, a spokesperson for Kim siad, “Kim Kardashian West was held up at gunpoint inside her Paris hotel room this evening, by two armed masked men dressed as police officers. She is badly shaken but physically unharmed.”

Kim is overseas for Paris Fashion Week along with her mother, Kris Jenner, and sister, Kendall Jenner.

Kanye told concert goers that he had to leave due to a “family emergency” and the Meadows NYC’s official Twitter account confirmed West would not be coming back to finish his set.
Concert attendees shared videos of Kanye’s message. The crowd gasped in surprise.

 

Demi Lovato & Joe Jonas Get Stuck In Elevator

Joe Jonas and Demi Lovato got trapped in an elevator before their show at L.A. Live last Thursday and they had a lot of time to reconnect.

They ended up getting stuck in the elevator for 4 hours.

In a video Joe said, “We’ve been stuck in an elevator for four hours.”

Is It Ok To Curse Infront Of Your Children?

Benjamin Bergen, a professor of cognitive science at UC San Diego wrote an op-ed article for the L.A. Times that argues it should be okay to curse in front of your kids.

He says he always seasoned his vocabulary with four-letter words until he became a dad two years ago and started “watching his language.” He says that he decided to investigate whether cursing parents really hurt a child in some way, and says he found it really doesn’t.

He says his concern about using profanity came from the social conditioning of being taught that certain words are bad, and then being punished for using them. The American Academy of Pediatrics claims that exposure to profanity is actually dangerous because it encourages aggression or will numb a child’s normal emotional reactions, but Ben says he could find no proof of any experiment that proved this.

He did find a 2014 study that found exposed 52 university students to a homophobic slur affected how they felt about homosexuals. Another study found that slurs also affected children, who reported feeling less connected to their school lives and suffering from symptoms of anxiety and depression.

He says another study found that it’s pretty harmless for children to swear. It found that the swearing did not lead to physical violence, and that the “bad” words were mostly used for positive reasons like humor, not anger.

Now, Ben says he has compromised to keep cursing from harming his son’s reputation in social settings. He doesn’t stop himself from swearing around his son, but talks to him about how some words are okay in certain places and not okay in others.

YIKES! 433K People Die Every Year Because From Sitting for Too Long

A new study found that sitting for more than three hours per day is responsible for 3.8% of all deaths worldwide every year… that’s 433,000 people.

Researchers looked at data collected from 54 countries between 2002 and 2011.

They found that more than 60% of the world’s population sits for more than three hours per day, with the average being approximately 4.7 hours.

Researchers found that eliminating sitting could increase overall life expectancy by 0.2 years. Reducing daily sitting time by two hours could decrease an individual’s mortality by 2.4%.

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