Name

Gross
Estate

Total
Settlement

Net
Estate

Percent
Shrinkage

W.C. Fields

$      884,680

$    329,793 

$     554,887

37%

Nelson Eddy

$      472,715

$    109,990

$     362,725

23%

Franklin D. Roosevelt

$   1,940,999

$     574,867

$  1,366,132

30%

Humphrey Bogart

$     910,146

$    274,234

$     635,912

30%

Clark Gable

$   2,806,526

$  1,101,038

$  1,705,488

30%

Dean Witter

$   7,451,055

$  1,830,717

$  5,620,338

25%

Henry J. Kaiser, Sr.

$   5,597,772

$  2,488,364

$  3,109,408

44%

Al Jolson

$   4,385,143

$  1,349,066

$  3,036,077

31% 

Gary Cooper

$   4,948,985

$  1,520,454

$  3,454,531

31%

Myford Irvine

$ 13,445,552

$ 6,012,685 

$  7,432,867

45%

Walt Disney

$  23,004,851

$  6,811,943

$ 16,192,908

30%

William E. Boeing

$ 22,386,158 

$ 10,589,748

$ 11,796,410

47%

William Frawley

$      92,446 

$      45,814

$     46,632

49%

Hedda Hopper

$     472,661

$    165,982

$    306,679

35%

Marilyn Monroe

$     819,176

$    448,750

$    370,426

55%

Erle Stanley Gardner

$   1,795,092

$     636,705

$  1,158,387

35%

Cecil B. DeMille

$   4,043,607

$  1,396,064

$  2,647,543

35%

Elvis Presley

$ 10,165,434

$  7,374,635

$  2,790,799

73%

J. P. Morgan

$ 17,121,482

$ 11,893,691

$  5,227,791

69%

John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

$ 26,905,182

$ 17,124,988

$  9,780,194

64%

Alwin C. Ernst, CPA

$ 12,642,431

$  7,124,112

$  5,518,319

56%

Frederick Vanderbilt

$ 76,838,530

$ 42,846,112

$ 33,992,418

56%

Howard Gould

$ 67,535,386

$ 52,549,682

$ 14,985,704

78%