{"id":27202,"date":"2017-06-16T12:50:26","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T12:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=27202"},"modified":"2017-06-16T12:50:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T12:50:26","slug":"worlds-100-highest-paid-celebrities-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/worlds-100-highest-paid-celebrities-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"The World&#8217;s 100 Highest-Paid Celebrities Of 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question- On June 12, 2017, the prestigious American magazine Forbes released the list of 100 highest paid celebrities in the world. Who is India&#8217;s highest paid celebrity in this list?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Akshay Kumar<br \/>\n(b) Prabhash<br \/>\n(c) Shahrukh Khan<br \/>\n(d) Salman Khan<br \/>\n<strong>Ans: (c)<br \/>\nRelated facts:-<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>On June 12, 2017, the prestigious American magazine Forbes released the World&#8217;s 100 Highest Paid Celebrities list-2017.<\/li>\n<li>American ramper and industrialist Sean Combs topped the list with $ 130 million in this list.<\/li>\n<li>After this, the famous American singer Beyonce Knowles ranked second with $ 105 million in earnings.<\/li>\n<li>The famous British author J.K. Rowling ranked third with a net earnings of $ 95 million.<\/li>\n<li>Famous Canadian singer and musician Drake ranked fourth with US $ 94 million in earnings.<\/li>\n<li>Famous football player Cristiano Ronaldo is at the fifth position with net earnings of $ 93 million.<\/li>\n<li>Apart from this, among other celebrities of the world, Lionel Messi ($ 80 million) is 14th, Roger Federer ($ 64 million), 23rd, Jackie Chan ($ 49 million) is ranked 39th.<\/li>\n<li>This year, only three celebrities from India are included in this list.<\/li>\n<li>Famous Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan, with a net earning of US $ 38 million, is ranked 65th in the list and remains the first in the country.<\/li>\n<li>Apart from this, famous Bollywood actor Salman Khan is at 71st place with$ 37 million and Akshay Kumar is at 80th place with earnings of US $ 35.5 million.<\/li>\n<li>The world\u2019s 100 top-earning celebrities earned a cumulative $5.15 billion pretax between June 1, 2016 and June 1, 2017, essentially flat over 2016\u2019s $5.1 billion total.<\/li>\n<li>66% of the 100 celebrities in the world belong to the United States, 20% in Europe, 12% in Canada, and 5% in Asia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Related Links:-<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/natalierobehmed\/2017\/06\/12\/celebrity-100-the-worlds-highest-paid-celebrities-of-2017\/#c1570e34d92a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/natalierobehmed\/2017\/06\/12\/celebrity-100-the-worlds-highest-paid-celebrities-of-2017\/#c1570e34d92a<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/forbespr\/2017\/06\/12\/forbes-releases-2017-celebrity-100-list-of-the-worlds-highest-paid-entertainers\/#1cf36bb52933\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/forbespr\/2017\/06\/12\/forbes-releases-2017-celebrity-100-list-of-the-worlds-highest-paid-entertainers\/#1cf36bb52933<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/celebrities\/list\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/celebrities\/list\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question- On June 12, 2017, the prestigious American magazine Forbes released the list of 100 highest paid celebrities in the world. Who is India&#8217;s highest paid celebrity in this list? (a) Akshay Kumar (b) Prabhash (c) Shahrukh Khan (d) Salman Khan Ans: (c) Related facts:- On June 12, 2017, the prestigious American magazine Forbes released [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":27070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1089],"tags":[2338],"class_list":["post-27202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-enew","tag-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}