LOS ANGELES, (AFP) - Teenage actors and singers such as 15-year-old
"Hannah Montana" starlet Miley Cyrus are among the most highly paid
young stars on the planet with annual income worth millions of
dollars, Forbes magazine revealed Tuesday.
Cyrus, daughter of the country singer Billy Ray Cyrus, recently
shot to stardom in Disneys teen pop soap opera "Hannah Montana," and
is one of the youngest rankings of the "20 Top-Earning Young
Superstars" list published on Forbes website.
Tickets to her concerts fetch thousands of dollars on the black
market.
She was out-ranked, however, by Dakota Fanning, aged just 13, the
child star of the 2006 movie "Charlottes Web." Fanning earned four
million dollars in the year from June 2006.
Largely thanks to their lucrative advertising deals, sportsmen and
women occupied the top spots in the upmarket magazines latest rich
list, which surveyed superstars aged under 25.
Topping it was the Cleveland, Ohio basketball player LeBron James,
who will turn 23 this month. He raked in 27 million dollars in a
single year.
Other sporting celebrities also approached the quarter-billion
mark: New Orleans American football player Reggie Bush, 22, bagged 23
million dollars, as did Russian tennis ace Maria Sharapova, aged 20.
British actor Daniel Radcliffe, 18, who played the boy wizard Harry
Potter in the blockbuster film series, earned 15 million dollars in
the year.