New Celebrity Rich List: But Are They Happy?

Updated
Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey

If ungodly wealth makes you unhappy, as a new Gates Foundation/Boston College study found, the following celebrities must be living in a pit of despair. Parade Magazine spilled the digits on what the top showbiz types earned in 2010 and one of them isn't even alive. (That would be Michael Jackson, whose estate collected a tidy $275 million.)

No. 1 belonged to Oprah Winfrey, who hauled in $315 million and might need to stash some of it in the kitty as her OWN network tries to carve its niche. In a jolt to the too-old-to-rock-n-roll ethos, dinosaur rockers AC/DC went way beyond revival mode with $114 million in revenue. That doesn't sound like the highway to hell to us.

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