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DEAD RICH!

THE year 2020 may have been a scrimp and a save for most of us but some people continued to rake in the mega bucks – despite being dead and gone for some years.

Forbes magazine recently released its list of highest-paid people who coined it from the great beyond in this year of nastiness for everyone else. Read it and weep.

1 MICHAEL JACKSON

R744 MILLION

 The old saying that “any publicity is good publicity” certainly applies to the king of pop, whose tarnished reputation did nothing to dent his music sales.

His music was streamed 27

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