Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie has unseated Oprah Winfrey as the most powerful celebrity of 2009 but the talk show queen is still raking in big money with an earning of USD 275 million dollars a year.
The Forbes list of most powerful celebrities have five men and women in the top ten but the women take the top four positions in the order of Jolie, Winfrey, Madonna and Beyonce Knowles with Jennifer Aniston at number eight.
Despite the sex scandal that exploded at the end of the year, golf champion Tiger Woods led the men at the number five position followed by singer Bruce Springsteen and Hollywood director Steven Spielberg.
Jolie's partner Brad Pitt came in ninth after his ex-wife Aniston and the tenth spot went to American basketball star Kobe Bryan whose popularity soared after the US victory at the Beijing Olympics.
A mix of money and fame have plummeted Mr and Mrs Smith actress to the number one position, according to the Forbes analysis, which finds that last year Jolie raked in the moolah from movies like Kung Fu Panda and Wanted while remaining a media favorite because of her relationship with Pitt and her philanthropic work.
Oprah has been consistently losing her viewership but this hasn't impacted her earnings and next year the celebrity will roll out the Oprah Winfrey Network in partnership with Discovery Communications.
Refaeli asked to dump DiCaprio by Israeli group
An Israeli nationalist group has urged Bar Refaeli to dump American boyfriend, actor Leonardo DiCaprio, and settle down with a Jewish husband, says a report.
Contactmusic.com reports that Baruch Marzel, an Israeli politician sent a letter on behalf of the Lehava organisation.
"It is not by chance that you were born Jewish. Your grandmother and her grandmother did not dream that one of their descendants would one day remove the family's future generations from the Jewish people. Assimilation has forever been one of the enemies of the Jewish people," stated the letter.
Marzel added that he has "nothing against Mr DiCaprio, who I have no doubt is a talented actor, Come to your senses, look forward and back too and not only the present. Don't marry Leonardo DiCaprio, don't harm the future generations."
The supermodel, who has been dating DiCaprio since 2005, was forced to deny rumours about her engagement earlier this month after she was spotted wearing a ring on her wedding finger.
Can't Live Without Sex: Avatar Star Zoe Saldana
"Avatar" actress Zoe Saldana has revealed her passion for sex and claims she cannot live without it.
"S is for Sex. Love it, love it, love it... can't live without it. I love sex. I love skin. I don't believe the body is something to hide. I think in American society we're messing up our kids by taking away the education on, and awareness of, our sexuality and replacing it with violence, guns and video games-and we're breeding little criminals," she said.
Saldana, who lives with her long-term boyfriend Keith Britton, says she is proud of her body and thinks people should be encouraged to take a greater interest in their sexuality from a young age to stop them turning to crime, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
The 31-year-old star also admitted she won't rule out ever starring in a graphic sex scene in any of her movies.
"If you asked a painter, 'Are you going to paint in red?' the answer would be, 'I'm going to paint paintings and if one day there is red in it, there's red in it'," she said.
"S is for Sex. Love it, love it, love it... can't live without it. I love sex. I love skin. I don't believe the body is something to hide. I think in American society we're messing up our kids by taking away the education on, and awareness of, our sexuality and replacing it with violence, guns and video games-and we're breeding little criminals," she said.
Saldana, who lives with her long-term boyfriend Keith Britton, says she is proud of her body and thinks people should be encouraged to take a greater interest in their sexuality from a young age to stop them turning to crime, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
The 31-year-old star also admitted she won't rule out ever starring in a graphic sex scene in any of her movies.
"If you asked a painter, 'Are you going to paint in red?' the answer would be, 'I'm going to paint paintings and if one day there is red in it, there's red in it'," she said.
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