Highest Paid Football Player: Eli Manning and David Beckham. After signing a very lucrative contract with the NY Giants, Eli Manning is now considered as the highest paid footballer (the American version). However, he has some catching up to do with David Beckham, the other highest paid footballer (the soccer version), who’s making £30.1 million a year including endorsements. That’s pounds, baby, pounds.

Anyways, here’s an NBC report on Eli Manning’s contract with the New York Giants: Continue reading Highest Paid Football Player: Eli Manning and David Beckham →

Highest Earning Celebrities. Holy canoly, did you know that Oprah Winfrey made US$275 million in the last 12 months? We knew she makes lots of money but we didn’t realize she’s making LOTS and LOTS of money. Here’s the top 25 highest earning celebrities according to Forbes.com:

1. Oprah Winfrey: $275 million
2. George Lucas: $170 million
3. Steven Spielberg: $150 million
4. Madonna: $110 million
5. Tiger Woods: $110 million
6. Jerry Bruckheimer: $100 million
7. Beyonce Knowles: $87 million
8. Jerry Seinfeld: $85 million
9. Dr. Phil McGraw: $80 million
10. Simon Cowell: $75 million
11. Tyler Perry: $75 million
12-14. Bruce Springsteen: $70 million
12-14. Coldplay: $70 million
12-14. Howard Stern: $70 million
15-17. Harrison Ford: $65 million
15-17. Kenny Chesney: $65 million
15-17. Dave Matthews Band: $65 million
18-20. Rascal Flatts: $60 million
18-20. AC/DC: $60 million
18-20. James Patterson: $60 million
21-22. Adam Sandler: $55 million
21-22. Larry David: $55 million
23. Rush Limbaugh: $54 million
24. Toby Keith: $52 million
25. Bon Jovi: $50 million

For a list specifically for singers, check out our post on the Highest Paid Singers or Musicians.

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Highest Paid Singers & Comedians: Madonna & Seinfeld Top The List. Madonna may look silly with her youth obsession but you gotta give props to the Material girl for her ability to make millions. This year, she is ranked by Forbes Magazine as the top earning musician as she reportedly made US$110 million from her “Sticky & Sweet Tour,” concert tour and from her 11th studio album, Hard Candy.

Here’s the rest of the Top Twelve highest earning singer/musician list for the period spanning from June 2008 to June 2009:
1. Madonna: $110 million
2. Celine Dion: $100 million
3. Beyonce Knowles: $87 million
4. Bruce Springsteen: $70 million
5. Kenny Chesney: $65 million
6-8. Rascal Flatts: $60 million
6-8. Coldplay: $60 million
6-8. AC/DC: $60 million
9. Eagles: $55 million
10. Toby Keith: $52 million
11. Bon Jovi: $50 million
12. Dave Matthews Band: $45 million

Wow. We’re so glad to see the Eagles, a band we’ve enjoyed listening to since the early 90s, in that list. Good for you, oldies. By the way, this list made use wonder about where American Idol alumni winners stand in the scheme of things. Do you think some of them have a chance of cracking the top 12? Or will more established singers like Madonna and Bon Jovi continue to rule?

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CNN has compiled a list of the “world’s” most powerful women in business. We put “world” in quotes because when CNN says “world” they actually mean “American” [and maybe some of western Europe].

So are these really the most powerful women in business? Well, in the western-centric view of CNN, they are. Oh, don’t say, “But Indra Nooyi is Indian” to defend CNN’s western-centrism.

1 Indra Nooyi, PepsiCo
2 Irene Rosenfeld, Kraft Foods
3 Pat Woertz, Archer Daniels Midland
4 Anne Mulcahy, Xerox
5 Angela Braly, Wellpoint
6 Andrea Jung, Avon Products
7 Susan Arnold, Procter & Gamble
8 Oprah Winfrey, Harpo
9 Brenda Barnes, Sara Lee
10 Ursula Burns, Xerox
11 Ann Livermore, Hewlett-Packard
12 Anne Sweeney, Walt Disney
13 Susan Desmond-Hellmann, Genentech
14 Ginni Rometty, IBM
15 Ellen Kullman, Dupont
16 Safra Catz, Oracle
17 Heidi Miller, J.P. Morgan Chase
18 Judy McGrath, Viacom
19 Carol Meyrowitz, TJX
20 Ann Moore, Time Inc.
21 Christina Gold, Western Union
22 Amy Brinkley, Bank of America
23 Susan Ivey, Reynolds American
24 Colleen Goggins, Johnson & Johnson
25 Susan Chambers, Wal-Mart
26 Charlene Begley, General Electric
27 Barbara Desoer, Bank of America
28 Abigail Johnson, Fidelity
29 Pamela Nicholson, Enterprise
30 Liz Smith, Avon Products
31 Joanne Maguire, Lockheed Martin
32 Carrie Cox, Global Pharmaceuticals, Schering-Plough
33 Cece Sutton, Wachovia
34 Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook
35 Meredith Whitney, Oppenheimer & Co.
36 Jan Fields, McDonald’s USA, McDonald’s
37 Melanie Healey, Procter & Gamble
38 Lisa Weber, MetLife
39 Sue Decker, Yahoo
40 Claire Babrowski, Toys “R” Us
41 Kathleen Murphy, ING
42 Deirdre Connelly, Eli Lilly
43 Nancy Peretsman, Allen & Co.
44 Sherilyn McCoy, Johnson & Johnson
45 Gail Boudreaux, UnitedHealth Group
46 Lorrie Norrington, eBay
47 Terri Dial, Citigroup
48 Lynn Elsenhans, Sunoco
49 Cathie Black, Hearst Magazines
50 Marissa Mayer, Google