Yves Saint Laurent is the top-earning deceased

The list of the richest dead was formerly topped by the late king of rock, Elvis Presley, who fell to the fourth place.

Fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent is the richest dead person, Forbes magazine published. More specifically, this magazine managed to compile a list of top-earning deceased people.

Great fashion designer earned more than a billion kunas in the year 2009. The list was formerly topped by the late king of rock Elvis Presley, who fell to the fourth place. He is now behind Yves Saint Laurent, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, who wrote the musical ‘The Sound of Music’.