Bashir then asked, "A billion dollars?" to which Jackson replied, "It's over there." Bashir asked for confirmation: "Over a billion dollars!" to which the star replied "Yes."[30] Jackson never appeared on the Forbes Billionaire list in his lifetime nor was he ever ranked among Forbes 400 richest Americans. Estimates of Jackson's net worth during his life range from negative $285 million to positive $350 million for 2002, 2003 and 2007.[31][32] In August 2018 Forbes reported that Jackson's total career pretax earnings in life and death were $4.2 billion.[33][34]