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Hollywood's Top-Earning Couples

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Hollywood's 20 Top-Earning Couples What happens when you marry an $82 million hip-hop brand and an $80 million R&B empire? You get Hollywood's best-paid power couple.  Thanks to a monster year filled with music, movies, fashion and endorsement deals, Jay-Z and his new bride, BeyoncĂ© Knowles, collectively raked in $162 million between June 1, 2007 and June 1, 2008. The jaw-dropping sum garners them bragging rights atop our first annual ranking of Hollywood's Top-Earning Couples, a list that also includes A-list pairings Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman, David and Victoria Beckham , Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes and Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner, among others. In Pictures: Hollywood's 20 Top-Earning Couples     "Naturally, powerful people tend to gravitate toward other powerful people," explains clinical psychologist and celebrity researcher Jim Houran, for reasons that range from proximity (stars hang around other stars) to familiarity (people are att