{"id":16031,"date":"2012-08-09T14:47:34","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T18:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=16031"},"modified":"2012-08-09T14:47:34","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T18:47:34","slug":"forbes-jay-z-and-beyonce-worlds-highest-paid-celebrity-couple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=16031","title":{"rendered":"Forbes: Jay-Z And Beyonc\u00e9 World\u2019s Highest Paid Celebrity Couple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Forbes<\/em> magazine has named the hip-hop power couple at the top of their 2012 \u2018Highest-Paid Celebrity Couples\u2019 list.<\/p>\n<p>The duo have earned a total of $78 million in the past year. <strong>Beyonc\u00e9<\/strong> took in $40 million with endorsements, album sales, and royalties, while<strong> Jay-Z<\/strong> took in $38 million with his <em>Watch the Throne<\/em> album sales and tour with <strong>Kanye West<\/strong>.\u00a0 The <em>\u201cCrazy in Love\u201d<\/em> duo managed to accumulate so much and still took time off for the birth of their first child, daughter, <strong>Blue Ivy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jay-Z<\/strong> and <strong>Beyonc\u00e9<\/strong> replaced last year\u2019s highest earning couple, NFL quarterback <strong>Tom Brady<\/strong> and supermodel wife,<strong> Gisele Bundchen,<\/strong> who amassed a total of $72 million this year.<\/p>\n<p>Third on the Forbes list are soccer player <strong>David Beckham<\/strong> and wife fashion designer <strong>Victoria Beckham<\/strong>, who earned $54 million. <strong>Brad Pitt<\/strong> and <strong>Angelia Joli<\/strong>e are placed at fourth earning $45 million, and rounding out the list of five are Will and <strong>Jada Pinkett Smith<\/strong> with $40 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes magazine has named the hip-hop power couple at the top of their 2012 \u2018Highest-Paid Celebrity Couples\u2019 list. The duo have earned a total of $78 million in the past year. Beyonc\u00e9 took in $40 million with endorsements, album sales, and royalties, while Jay-Z took in $38 million with his Watch the Throne album sales [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}