Beyoncé & Jay-Z Top-Earning Couple
Mr and Mrs Carter definitely know how to make money. Actually especially Bee did thanks to all her endorsement deals… and it doesn’t look like companies are ever going to back off trying to get Beyoncé under contract.
Jay-Z and Beyonce earned $122 million together between June 2008 and June 2009, more than any other couple — married or unmarried — in entertainment.
The list makers at Forbes are at it again, this time determining Hollywood’s top-earning couple.
Beyonce and Jay-Z beat out the competition not only by churning out hit songs but also by attaching their names to Budweiser, American Express and a host of other brands. In this relationship, the wife out-earned the husband, $87 million-$35 million.
In a distant second place, with a combined $69 million, was Harrison Ford and girlfriend Calista Flockhart, most of that coming courtesy of Ford’s $65 million paycheck for “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.”
Partners Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are third with a combined $55 million, thanks to “Wanted,” starring Jolie, and “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” starring Pitt.
Rounding out the top five are married couples Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith ($48 million) and David and Victoria Beckham ($46 million).
