Martin Bashir Net Worth: How rich is Martin Bashir?

Martin Henry Bashir is a British former journalist. He was a presenter on British and American television and for the BBC’s Panorama programme, for which he interviewed Diana, Princess of Wales in 1995.

Bashir worked for the BBC from 1986 to 1999 on programmes including Panorama before joining ITV. He presented the 2003 ITV documentary about Michael Jackson.

From 2004 to 2016, he worked in New York, first as an anchor for ABC’s Nightline and then as a political commentator for MSNBC, hosting his own programme, Martin Bashir, and a correspondent for NBC’s Dateline NBC.

He resigned from his position at MSNBC in December 2013 after making “ill-judged” comments about the former governor of Alaska and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. In 2016, he returned to the BBC as a religious affairs correspondent.

In 2020, the BBC’s director general Tim Davie apologised to the brother of the princess, Earl Spencer, for Bashir’s use of faked bank statements to secure his 1995 Panorama interview with the Princess of Wales, Spencer’s sister. Bashir resigned from the BBC in May 2021, citing health reasons.

Martin Bashir Net Worth: How rich is Martin Bashir?

According to The Cinemaholic, Bashir is worth an estimated $7 million. In 2021, The Daily Mail reported that Bashir was making £100,000-a-year salary at BBC before he stepped down.

Back in 2003, it was also reported that Bashir sold his controversial Michael Jackson documentary to ABC in America for $7.1 million.

At the time, he was earning a £300,000 a year salary at ITV. “These days Martin is paid for his efforts,” a source told The Guardian. “I think he is very happy with what he earns.” Another added, “Martin doesn’t need to prove anything.

He has had two of the biggest scoops in journalism, but he has been pilloried by the newspapers, and that has stung him.”

Bashir and producer Mike Robinson received the BAFTA Award for Best Talk Show at the 1996 British Academy Television Awards for their work on the interview with Diana for Panorama.

Bashir also won the Factual or Science-Based Programme of the Year from the Television and Radio Industries Club, TV Journalist of the Year from the Broadcasting Press Guild, and Journalist of the Year from the Royal Television Society for the Diana interview.

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