• ccunning@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Probably to bring French to the forefront after divorcing Bill.

    Better question would be why she kept Gates but that’s probably for recognition purposes, I’d guess.

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      5 months ago

      That and changing your name is actually pretty annoying, and it only gets more annoying when you have a lot of assets with a particular legal name tied to them.

      She has lawyers and accountants that will do a lot of the heavy lifting, but it’s still an obnoxious pain the butt.

      It’s pretty common to see people change their name when they get married, but come divorce time say “nah, fuck that, I’m not doing that shit again.”