Mayweather, Pacquiao top Katy Perry, One Direction on Forbes highest-paid

This year’s Forbes annual list of the world’s highest-paid celebrities will make your life savings look like pocket change but as the saying goes, more money, more problems. The female performers netted an estimated $135 million and $80 million pretax correspondingly. Pacquiao was second, making $160-million over the past 12 months.

Thanks to a legendary fight with fellow boxer and number two on the list Manny Pacquiao, Mayweather is leagues ahead of the rest of the list, having pulled in a total $300m (£190m) since last June. Meanwhile, Swift’s latest man, Calvin Harris, came in at No. 17, with $66 million.

Floyd Mayweather has defeated Manny Pacquiao once again.

Musicians and athletes dominated the top 10 spots which included only two women.

Country music star Garth Brooks was number six with $90 million, while pop singer Taylor Swift tied for number eight with actor Robert Downey Jr with $80 million.

In the sports world, NBA Finals contender LeBron James came in at No 18 with US$65 million. Management, agent and attorney fees were not deducted. “I like to dress up and be Katy Perry when it’s appropriate, when I’m promoting something”, she explains, leading me into a conference room alone and hopping onto a semi-circular white couch. Read the full list on Forbes’ site. “I don’t ever like to do things unless I’m really a part of them”.

“Perry grossed more than $2 million per city over the course of 126 shows – 75 of them overseas – while pulling in an astounding $20 per head in merchandise sales, “Forbes wrote.”She also pads her coffers through deals with Coty, Claire’s and Covergirl, and from a new Perry-themed mobile game due out this fall”””.