Desi Arnaz
In I Love Lucy, we were introduced to Desi Arnaz as the husband of Lucille Ball. The two broke up in 1960, but the pair wanted to profit from their divorce instead of the attorneys. This is the reason they kept running the company and the sitcom with each other. Desilu, their company, was purchased by CBS in 2018. Even so, their estate continued to make as much as $7.5 million per year in residuals before this. The divorce has been described as “horrible” by their friends. However, it is a good thing that they could at least set their differences aside in the name of profit.
Desi Arnaz
Bob Denver
Do you know who played the title character in Gilligan’s Island? The correct answer to that question is Bob Denver! The show follows seven people who got shipwrecked on an island. It was on the air for three seasons in the ‘60s. Viewers loved its clean humor. Its reruns are still aired to this day. In 2005, the actor passed away after a battle with cancer. By then, it had been almost four decades since the finale of the TV show came out. His estate still gets some money from the residuals. Over the course of the past 38 years, he has raked in a total of around $90 million from the reruns of the show. Sweet.
Bob Denver