LOS ANGELES — It’s been five years since Michael Jackson died, yet his career is more alive than it has been in decades.

Just last month, the singer moonwalked across a Las Vegas stage in a nationally televised hologram performance. A new album recently debuted at No. 2 on music charts. And a Cirque du Soleil show based on Jackson’s songs has logged nearly 500 performances worldwide.

The result has been an estate that has earned more than $600 million since the King of Pop’s untimely death at age 50.

Some of the earnings support Jackson’s mother and three children, known to the world as Prince, 17; Paris, 16; and Blanket, 12. They were at their father’s mansion on June 25, 2009, when he was given an overdose of the anesthetic propofol in his upstairs bedroom. It would take more than two years before Jackson’s doctor was convicted of involuntary manslaughter.

A father who taught his children philanthropy, threw them lavish birthday parties and masked them from the paparazzi is gone. Jackson, however, continues to provide.

Nearly $20 million had been spent to support Jackson’s children and his mother, Katherine, through 2012.

Lawyers have busily untangled Jackson’s finances, which itself has been expensive. Among the disbursements between mid-2009 and the end of 2012:

• More than $91 million on taxes and licenses, including $45 million paid to the federal government for taxes.

• More than $17 million to lawyers who represent the estate, Katherine and her grandchildren.

• Nearly $4 million to properly store and archive the trove of personal belongings and unreleased music Jackson amassed.

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