FORBES Top 100 Most Powerful Celebrities 2002 Forbes

"Fame is an ego-building but back-breaking state of being which -- rather like love -- is most comfortable in private, and most frightening when its loss is contemplated." ~ Phyllis Battelle

Here is the list of the Forbes Celebrity 100 for 2002:

1 Britney Spears

Britney Spears

2 Tiger Woods
3 Steven Spielberg
4 Madonna
5 U2
6 NSYNC
7 Mariah Carey
8 Oprah Winfrey
9 Michael Jordan

10 Tom Hanks
11 George Lucas

12 Jennifer Lopez
13 Julia Roberts
14 Stephen King
15 Ben Affleck
16 Mel Gibson
17 Bruce Willis
18 Bill Clinton
19 Backstreet Boys

20 Cameron Diaz
21 Michael Schumacher
22 Tom Clancy
23 David Letterman
24 Dave Matthews
25 Elton John
26 Adam Sandler
27 Nicole Kidman
28 Jennifer Aniston
29 Arnold Schwarzenegger
30 Shaquille O'Neal

31 Kobe Bryant
32 Rosie O'Donnell
33 Harrison Ford
34 J.K. Rowling
35 Mike Tyson
36 Robert DeNiro
37 Samuel L. Jackson
38 Lennox Lewis
39 Meg Ryan
40 Rush Limbaugh

41 Jay Leno
42 Sandra Bullock
43 Rudolph Giuliani
44 Aerosmith
45 Howard Stern
46 Alex Rodriguez
47 Mary Higgins Clark
48 Jerry Bruckheimer
49 Keanu Reeves
50 Derek Jeter

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