New York ,HOLLYWOOD ACTR-ESS 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 $275 million 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 catapulted Mr and Mrs Smith actress to the number one position, according to the Forbes analysis, which finds that in 2009 Jolie raked in the moolah from movies like Kung Fu Panda and Wanted while remaining a media favourite 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 in 2011 the celebrity will roll out the Oprah Winfrey Network in partnership with Discovery Communications. Madonna grabbed the number three spot for pulling off top grossing international tour of 2008 that raked in $280 million and grabbing headlines for adopting another Malawian baby as well as for the end of her marriage to British filmmaker Guy Ritchie.     —PTI

Betwa Sharma