Marilyn Monroe
Earnings: $8 million
Occupation: Actress
Date of death: Aug. 5, 1962
Age: 36
Cause: Overdose of sleeping pills
Survived by: no immediate family
More than 42 years after her death, Marilyn Monroe continues to be an iconic standard-setter
when it comes to sex and glamour. Some of the major campaigns of the past year include Visa,
Aliz International Luggage, HMY Airways, Volkswagen and Physicians Form cosmetics.
More than half of the business comes from companies outside the U.S. CMG Worldwide,
which manages and represents Monroe’s estate, has signed on more than 150 new partners
since last year. Marilyn left everything she had to famed acting coach Lee Strasberg, whose
wife took control of Marilyn’s estate when he died in 1982.
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