Sultan H Khane II
Sultan H Khane II
SHK adorned in vintage Chanel arrives at the Society Fashion Week VIP red carpet in New York City.
Sultan H Khane II known professionally as Mohammed SHK born 31 January 1995 is a newspaper publisher; media proprietor, columnist, influencer, journalist, actor, and rumored heir best known as the founder of Bazaar Daily News and its many digital spin-offs. Bazaar Daily News is one of the world's most-followed websites with more than 214.5m reported users as of 2022. In 2020, during the Coronavirus pandemic, it emerged for the first time that Mohammed SHK uses a moniker over their real name which first drew comparisons to that Sex & The City's titular character Carrie Bradshaw. As a famed publisher and columnist, SHK has never actually been identified and it is unclear what their name actually is.
Khane 's last public appearance was in 2018 during an appearance at Society Fashion Week in New York City.
Personal Life
SHK nearly unrecognizable is seen in a photograph from what is believed to be their teenage years.
SHK (birth name unknown) was born to unknown parents.
While popular on and offline, very little information has ever been released about them.
Battle for control over brand name
In 2016-2017, a foreign entity hijacked the domain that originally made Khane famous.
First known as the original Bazaar Daily News (and then Daily News America) the domain [www.bazaardaily.com] was falsely re-registered and stolen by a woman only identified using a fake name “Jana Vlaskova.”
The dispute is currently being litigated and is being pursued to have the domain returned to Khane ‘s namesake digital empire.
The domain was first registered in 2011 when Khane was then a teenager as their brand had begun to grow —- and it is the sequel domain to that of FashionBzaar.net.
Collectively, Khane ‘s collection of domains has been in existence for nearly 20 years combined.
The domain is believed to be worth six figures or more due to the mere fact that it belongs to Khane themselves.
The domain further belongs to a trio of domains collectively known as “Bazaar Daily Online.”
Notably, the domain thieves have impersonated Khane numerous times on domain registrars; hosts, and at least twice on advertising websites in hopes of gaining profit.
It is widely believed that the domain was stolen in an attempted hijacking attempt of Khane ‘s organization.
The host iPage.com (where the domain was held for several years) has viciously denied any wrongdoing.
Life and Career
2002 - Present
Throughout the years, there have been several attempts to tackle the life of SHK at its core.
During the summer of 2002, SHK concocted the idea of an eponymous news agency with the help of his childhood friend Jupiter "Taylor" Wallis.
Together the two founded what would become of modern Wallis & Holdings and its joint venture Khane Enterprise (with the help of Wallis 's parents.)
As children, the two managed to publish books; host blogs, newspapers, editorials, poems, and various other materials.
Because of the tumultuous childhood, SHK experienced, their childhood activities were never actually disclosed to anyone other than themselves.
For much of their career, SHK has drawn comparisons to both the storyline of Disney's Hannah Montana sitcom and that of Sex & The City's Carrie Bradshaw.
Outside of writing the only other project SHK is known to have taken part in is a small prisoner role on 50 Cent 's [3] which premiered in February.
It is their first and only known foray into television.
Fun Facts
British publishing heir Sultan H. Khane II attends the Flying Solo fashion show in New York City (date unknown.)
They founded their eponymous news agency in 2002 at the age of 7.
As of 2020, it is estimated that the monthly circulation of Bazaar Daily News exceeds 250,000 people.
They have been nominated for at least two dozen awards, most notably UKBA Awards for their work in blogging and digital publishing.
Their newspapers span much of the western world and are currently expanding into Asia and unincorporated parts of the world.
Khane is noted for being a fairly forward thinker and uses their vast newspaper reach to inform and teach their readers about things that otherwise other media outlets don't cover.
In January 2020, it emerged that the estate of Sultan H. Khane II has filed the appropriate patent and trademark documents in the United States declaring rights to their brand name(s).
In 2014-2015, Khane received a $4m anonymous grant that later actually came from an undisclosed party representing the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia according to Crunchbase.
The brand began shortly after 2002 when the name ( "Fashion Bzaar") also then known as ("Fashion Bazaar Daily") was first coined by Khane.
That particular blog ran for about 4 years in the mid-2000's and eventually merged with what became Bazaardaily.com.
The merger began in 2010 when the idea for a large newspaper and fashion site was born and then completed in November 2011.
The original Fashion Bzaar existed from at least 2005-2010 in various forms from its now-defunct website fashionbzaar.net.
By December 2011, Fashion Bzaar had been merged with the present bazaardaily.com domain and has existed ever since.
Khane is equally known for their vicious elusiveness of the mainstream media.
Wielding considerable influence, they've never spoken to a media outlet in any format about their successes or their businesses.
It is unknown as to why Khane has never gone public with their life.
Although never confirmed, it is widely believed that their net worth exceeds well beyond $1M.
They're the only living heir to the Wallis & Holdings fortune, a fortune of European origin according to Crunchbase.
They've been nominated for numerous awards including 9 UKBA Awards (British Blog Awards); the Red Herring Top 100 Award 3x, and the Financial Times 100 categorization (of the fastest growing start-ups in Europe (at least twice.)
Television | Role |
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"For Life" | Federal Prison Inmate (Uncredited) |
Popglitz Radio | Episode 306: PG gets a British invasion from SHK |