{"id":30383,"date":"2013-08-28T00:39:11","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T20:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=30383"},"modified":"2013-08-28T00:39:11","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T20:39:11","slug":"madonna-ranked-by-forbes-as-worlds-highest-earning-celebrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=30383","title":{"rendered":"Madonna Ranked by Forbes as World&#8217;s Highest-Earning Celebrity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/madonna.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-30380\" alt=\"madonna\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/madonna.jpg\" width=\"246\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/madonna.jpg 683w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/madonna-204x300.jpg 204w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 246px) 100vw, 246px\" \/><\/a>Anchored on the immense success of her top-grossing tour, iconic diva Madonna tops Forbes&#8217; highest-earning celebrities list, with $125 million in estimate earnings for the period from June 2012 to June 2013. The 55-year-old Material Girl bested other A-listers in the roster like filmmaker Steven Spielberg and TV personality Simon Cowell. Despite the lackluster sales performance of her album &#8220;MDNA&#8221;, the $305 million that its supporting world tour brought in was enough to boost Madonna&#8217;s earnings ahead of the pack. Adding to her total are profits from merchandise and other business ventures like her fragrance and clothing line. Spielberg took the runner-up spot, earning $25 million less than the pop diva, mainly from the box-office success of his latest film, the award-winning &#8220;Lincoln&#8221;, plus the royalties he earns from his extensive library of films. Just $5 million short of his $100 million total are Cowell, &#8220;Fifty Shades of Grey&#8221; author E.L. James, and radio show host &amp; &#8220;America&#8217;s Got Talent&#8221; judge Howard Stern who are tied for the third place. Lady GaGa, who&#8217;s known for emulating the Queen of Pop, placed tenth on the list with $80 million, because of her &#8220;Born This Way Ball&#8221; tour getting cut short by her hip injury and subsequent surgery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anchored on the immense success of her top-grossing tour, iconic diva Madonna tops Forbes&#8217; highest-earning&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":30380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,143,137],"tags":[1997],"class_list":["post-30383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-usa","category-world","tag-madonna","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}