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Tom Cruise has topped the annual Forbes magazine Celebrity 100 list.  The complete findings of the Forbes Celebrity 100 will be published in the magazine’s new issue, due out Friday and is online at Forbes.com/celebrity100. But if you can’t wait, here’s a sneak peek. Here’s a rundown of the top 10 and their respective earnings:

1. Tom Cruise, $67 million
2. Rolling Stones, $90 million
3. Oprah Winfrey, $225 million
4. U2, $110 million
5. Tiger Woods, $90 million
6. Steven Spielberg, $332 million
7. Howard Stern, $302 million
8. 50 Cent, $41 million
9. Cast of The Sopranos, $52 million
10. Dan Brown, $88 million

To generate the list, Forbes used a combination of factors including income, Web references as calculated by Google, press clips as compiled by Lexis/Nexis, TV/radio mentions from Factiva and the number of times a celebrity’s face has appeared on the cover of 26 major consumer magazines. Earnings estimates are for June 2005 to June 2006 and are dollars earned solely from entertainment income. Management, agent and attorney fees have not been deducted.

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