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