chancery wrote: ↑Thu May 09, 2024 12:32 pm
Reality Check wrote: ↑Thu May 09, 2024 11:51 am
noblepa wrote: ↑Thu May 09, 2024 11:44 am
I thought that her legal name was Stephanie Clifford. Stormy Daniels is just her stage name.
I would think that, in court, one's legal name would be used, not a stage name.
At the beginning of her testimony the assistant DA asked her what name she preferred to be referred and she said "Stormy Daniels". I think Mechan was just respecting her wish.
Not to go all sov cit here, but there is a widely recognized common law right to change one's name without legal proceedings. The boundaries of the right are fuzzy, and there are institutions that won't go along for certain purposes, but if she has decided to go by "Stormy Daniels," it's a "legal" name.
I understand all that. For that matter, a woman need not go to court to assume her husband's surname when she marries. She just needs to notify all credit cards, banks, employers, etc. of the change, and then begin using her new name.
I just wasn't sure whether Ms. Daniels had decided to live as Stormy Daniels or Stephanie Clifford.
I know that some celebrities do go by their stage name and some don't. Martin Sheen, for example, still has his birth name, Juan Estivez, on his driver's license. I once saw an interview, in which he said he was proud of his hispanic heritage and chose not to change it.