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Other big newcomers include singer Katy Perry at No 12, British director and producer Christopher Nolan at No. 47, actress Natalie Portman at No.Arkansas Lottery 75.
Former "Real Housewives of New York" star Bethenny Frankel, who used her latest TV show, "Bethenny Ever After" to promote her Skinnygirl brand of drinks she sold for $100 million, landed at No. 42.
The biggest gainer from last year's list was Leonardo DiCaprio, moving up 56 spots to a ranking of 71.
Dropping out of this year's list that includes film and television actors, TV personalities, models, athletes, authors and musicians, was Britney Spears,China Welfare Lottery who didn't tour in 2010, as well as "Harry Potter" star Daniel Radcliffe.
The collective total earnings of the top 100 dropped this year from last year, from a collective $4.7 billion to $4.5 billion.
Donald Trump, who this week dropped out of a U.S. 2012 Republican presidential bid, benefited from the increased media attention by breaking into the top 20 at No. 17, according to Forbes.

She parades around in underwear and vertiginously high heels, even to go to the bank. And yet Gaga is not sexy in the conventional sense. Everything is so controlled and choreographed, nothing is left to chance. She treats her body as a piece of architecture and sexuality as an add-on - wigs, veils, steel bras.

Like a modern-day Surrealist, she offers cut-ups of intimate body parts - without surrendering actual flesh. At Sunday night's Carlisle gig,Welfare Lottery she emerged from a coffin wearing a prosthetic PVC pregnant belly.

She's learned from past masters, of course - Warhol, Dalí, Bowie, Madonna. Because first and foremost, Gaga is an art student (just as Madonna trained as a dancer rather than a singer). Long before A-list designers would work with her, she created her own couture label, Haus of Gaga.

At Goldsmiths College, in London, her pop videos are already on the curriculum. Lecturer in visual culture Dr Lynn Turner says: "I think our students can see she is really sophisticated in her understanding of fetish and performance art. She's very clever and funny and sexy at the same time. You find references in her work to artists such as Jana Sterback, the Canadian performance artist who made her own meat dress, and, of course, French body modification artist ORLAN. The little bumps on Gaga's face relate directly to ORLAN's work, along with her yellow and blue striped hair."