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Rowling takes home £150m in last year to top rich list



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Published Date: 24 July 2008
HARRY Potter author JK Rowling was today named as the highest earner in the rich lists compiled by US business magazine Forbes.
The Edinburgh-based writer earned a total of £150 million in the past year, putting her ahead of US talk show host Oprah Winfrey, who took home £137.5 million.

Ms Rowling's books about the boy wizard have sold 375 million copies worldwide and the final instalment, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, has sold 44 million since it came out last July, according to the magazine.

Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe, 19 today, shared top spot in the Forbes' so-called "tweens" list, earning £12.5 million last year, while his co-stars Emma Watson, 18, and Rupert Grint, 19, also made the top ten, earning £2.75 million and £2.5m respectively.





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  • Last Updated: 24 July 2008 10:33 AM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
1

I love to eat Sellotape,

24/07/2008 12:49:53
Wow, a story on how rich JK Rowling is.
2

Boy Wonder,

24/07/2008 13:25:08
As observed elswhere .... Harry Potter and the Crock o' Gold!
3

Prin the Dissolving Donkey,

24/07/2008 14:08:36
Interesting that we are not allowed to comment on the non-story that is Richard and Gillian Saville-Smith's "website fight".

Wonder why, eh? Is it because Gillian is also known as Gillian Ferguson and writes for the Scotsman - and that this is the only possible reason that such self-serving tripe would ever end up in print?
4

Jed Smith,

Moscow 24/07/2008 15:58:23

If you were worth that kind of money would you still have a roll and findus crispy pancake for tea, or would you go to the chip shop instead?
5

JayDeeTee,

24/07/2008 18:46:38
#4. Probably go to the chip shop and order a "special fish" which is extortionate now. Maybe stretch to adding a couple of pickles.
6

JayDeeTee,

24/07/2008 18:53:34
#3. Same happened recently with that other "reporter" woman who "nearly died" in Afghanistan whilst on some sort of Scotsman journalistic mission. Can't remember her name, it may be Emma somebody or other. Whatever, she writes pure and utter tosh and the only reason her "story" was on the front page was because she writes for the Hootsman. It is things like this that is helping drag this once proud publication down to the level of the tabloids, with the exception that the tabloids are actually better written. People like Albert Morris must be spinning in his grave (if he has met his maker yet).

 

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