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By Lowri Williams On August 14, 2006

JK Rowling Named Ninth Highest Celebrity Earner

By Forbes magazine...

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JK Rowling Named Ninth Highest Celebrity Earner

Harry Potter author JK Rowling has been named as the ninth highest celebrity earner of 2005 by US magazine Forbes.

Forbes estimated that Rowling earned �45million in 2005�that averages out at �77 every single minute!!!

Hannah Clarke of Forbes said of Rowling: �If you want to keep on making money in the long term you need a winning franchise and JK Rowling is proof of that.�

The top ten Celebrity Pay Packets looked like this:

1. Steven Spielberg �180million
2. Howard Stern �163million
3. George Lucas �127million
4. Oprah Winfrey �122million
5. Jerry Seinfeld �54million
6. Tiger Woods �49million
7. Dan Brown �48million
8. Jerry Bruckheimer �45million
9. JK Rowling �41million
10. Dick Wolf �38million

Rowling is currently writing the seventh and final instalment of the Harry Potter series.

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