Mazher Mahmood

Quick Facts

Full Name	Mazher Mahmood
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Mar 22, 1963(1963-03-22)
Age	61
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	Birmingham
Horoscope	Pisces

Mazher Mahmood Biography

Mazher Mahmood is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on March 22, 1963 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Mazher Mahmood was the second son of Shamim and Sultan Mahmood (journalists from Pakistan) who were born in Small Heath on 22 March 1963.

Mahmood won many newspaper awards, including the British Press Awards “Reporter Of The Year” 1999 for his exposé on Newcastle United directors. A figure disguised as a sheikh received the award at the ceremony. He then revealed that he was Kelvin MacKenzie who used to edit The Sun.

Mahmood won the “Reporter of the Year” award in 1999 for his exposé of Newcastle United bosses Freddy Shepherd and Douglas Hall, who mocked fans and branded Geordie women “dogs” after taking Mahmood, posing as the sheikh, to a brothel in Marbella.

Mahmood’s targets include various society figures, including Sophie, Countess of Wessex, in 2001, Princess Michael of Kent in 2005, and Sarah, Duchess of York, in 2010.

Mahmood was then employed by the Sunday Times, which Mahmood joined in 1989. Roy Greenslade was the managing editor at the time and later claimed that Mahmood was fired for trying to cover up an error. Mahmood consistently refuted Greenslade’s account of events. Mahmood briefly worked as a producer for David Frost’s TV-am program before joining the News of the World, 1991.

Mazher Mahmood Net Worth

Mazher Mahmood is one of the richest Journalist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Mazher Mahmood 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Mazher Mahmood, a British undercover journalist who was born 22 March 1963, was convicted for conspiracy to pervert justice. He worked mostly for tabloid newspapers before his conviction. He worked for the News of the World for 20 years, and the Sunday Times for 20 more. During that time, he was involved in numerous investigations, including one that resulted in a reputed 94%. For his investigation into cricket match-fixing, he was awarded Reporter of the year in 2011. He worked later for the Sun of Sunday, the successor to the News of the World, starting in 2012.

Mahmood started his career as a journalist when he was 18. He exposed family members who had pirated videos. After two weeks of work at the News of the World, Mahmood began freelancing at the Sunday People. Mahmood claims that he used the sheikh disguise to invite prostitutes into a hotel room in 1984 while attempting to expose Roger Insall, a fellow journalist.

In 1999, after a Mahmood investigation exposed the Earl of Hardwicke and another man as drug dealers, the jury sent a note to the judge explaining that they had reached their decision to convict the two men with great reluctance. They said that they would have acquitted the defendants if the law had enabled them to take into account Mahmood’s “extreme provocation” of them to sell him cocaine. The judge agreed and passed suspended sentences.

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On 30 March 2006, Respect party politician George Galloway said that Mahmood, using his “fake sheikh” disguise and working for the News of the World, attempted to trap him in a sting operation at a meeting in the Dorchester Hotel with businessmen from the Middle East. Galloway said he had put off the meeting for several weeks and was suspicious from the beginning. Of the men, he wrote on his website that “neither of the two looked at all like an Islamist (which is what they later claimed to be); neither had a beard”.

Facts & Trivia

Mazher Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Mazher Mahmood celebrates birthday on March 22 of every year.

In September 2008, he wrote a book entitled Confessions of a Fake Sheik – The King of the Sting Reveals All.