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The reel-to-reel silent, color film taken at a private home in New Jersey was recently purchased by collector Keya Morgan for $275,000 from the person who took the film, who has asked to remain anonymous.

Pop star is No. 3 on Forbes' list of dead celebrity earnings.

In the hall of million-dollar dead stars, Michael Jackson will be king. Jackson's estate is expected to make £120million in what is left of 2009 and he will rise to become the top-earning of dead stars. Executors for Jackson have already run up £60million from merchandising contracts and the Sony Pictures movie of his recent rehearsal footage.