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News.com.au
5 hours ago
- Business
- News.com.au
Kanye shocks with another unexpected name change
Kanye West has changed his name for the second time in recent years, according to new legal documents obtained by The U.S. Sun The disgraced Kanye, 48, officially changed his name to 'Ye' in 2021 after filing papers in Los Angeles court, but now has seemingly changed his mind again. On new business documents filed by his chief financial officer Hussain Lalani with the State of California, it states that his new name is now 'Ye Ye'. The double Ye is different from other papers which had been previously filed, as his official title was 'Ye West.' This has come to light when his core businesses filed a 'Statement of Information' with California's Secretary of State, which gives the most up-to-date details for a business such as the office address, officers, directors and the type of industry. One of his main firms, Ox Paha Inc, which has filed hundreds of trademarks on behalf of Ye, now calls him 'Ye Ye' on official documents. His clothing company Yeezy Apparel and music businesses, Yeezy Record Label LLC and Getting Out Our Dreams Inc, have also followed suit. He has yet to publicly announce his new name on social media. Meanwhile, as The U.S. Sun previously reported, Kanye's wife Bianca Censori recently filed papers to start her own business. She registered Bianca Censori Inc. last month in California, and also registered her full name as an Australian firm based in Alphington, a Melbourne suburb. New headquarters In the case of Ox Paha Inc, Yeezy Record Label LLC and Getting Out Our Dreams Inc, the business headquarters has changed from a church in Northridge, Los Angeles, which burnt down in October after being left vacant by Kanye. Their headquarters is now listed as the office building he purchased for $6.7 million in March 2023 on trendy Melrose Ave. The building was bought by his firm Ox Paha, according to records. It has also been left to rot in the last couple of years. In March, police were called when a swastika was painted on the side of the building in the aftermath of vile antisemitic comments he'd made on X, formerly known as Twitter. Kanye has been particularly prickly about being called his birth name recently – walking out on an interview with Piers Morgan because he dared to call him Kanye. He recently took to X to reiterate that his name is Ye seemingly after the altercation with the British TV presenter last month. Piers explained the incident on Instagram saying: 'I interviewed Kanye West again today. 'As I expected, given what I've said about him recently, it didn't last long or go well. 'This was him right before he stomped off like a big baby before I could ask him why he's become a vile, Hitler-loving, Nazi-slathering, anti-Semitic pr**k.' When a Ye fan site pointed out on X that 'Piers Morgan calling him 'Kanye West' is exactly why Ye left the interview,' Piers responded: 'His X account name is @kanyewest'. On June 1, Ye went onto X and fumed: 'Ima finally stop using the @kanyewest twitter cause my name is Ye … Gonna start a ye account and it is what it is.'
The Sun
a day ago
- Business
- The Sun
Kanye West changes his name again in new legal documents four years after declaring himself ‘Ye
Kanye West has changed his name for the second time in recent years, according to new legal documents obtained by The U.S. Sun The disgraced Kanye, 48, officially changed his name to "Ye" in 2021 after filing papers in Los Angeles court, but now has seemingly changed his mind again. 7 7 7 7 On new business documents filed by his chief financial officer Hussain Lalani with the State of California, it states that his new name is now 'Ye Ye'. The double Ye is different from other papers which had been previously filed, as his official title was 'Ye West.' This has come to light when his core businesses filed a 'Statement of Information' with California's Secretary of State, which gives the most up-to-date details for a business such as the office address, officers, directors and the type of industry. One of his main firms, Ox Paha Inc, which has filed hundreds of trademarks on behalf of Ye, now calls him "Ye Ye" on official docs. His clothing company Yeezy Apparel and music businesses, Yeezy Record Label LLC and Getting Out Our Dreams Inc, have also followed suit. He has yet to publicly announce his new name on social media. Bianca Censori recently filed papers to start her own business. She registered Bianca Censori Inc. last month in California, and also registered her full name as an Australian firm based in Alphington, a Melbourne suburb. Bianca Censori sticks her tongue in Kanye West's mouth during rare PDA moment in romantic sunset video--- NEW HEADQUARTERS In the case of Ox Paha Inc, Yeezy Record Label LLC and Getting Out Our Dreams Inc, the business headquarters has changed from a church in Northridge, Los Angeles, which burnt down in October after being left vacant by Kanye. Their headquarters is now listed as the office building he purchased for $6.7 million in March 2023 on trendy Melrose Ave. The building was bought by his firm Ox Paha, according to records. It has also been left to rot in the last couple of years. In March, police were called when a swastika was painted on the side of the building in the aftermath of vile antisemitic comments he'd made on X, formerly known as Twitter. Kanye has been particularly prickly about being called his birth name recently - walking out on an interview with Piers Morgan because he dared to call him Kanye. He recently took to X to reiterate that his name is Ye seemingly after the altercation with the British TV presenter last month. Piers explained the incident on Instagram saying: "I interviewed Kanye West again today. "As I expected, given what I've said about him recently, it didn't last long or go well. "This was him right before he stomped off like a big baby before I could ask him why he's become a vile, Hitler-loving, Nazi-slathering, anti-Semitic pr**k.' When a Ye fan site pointed out on X that "Piers Morgan calling him 'Kanye West' is exactly why Ye left the interview,' Piers responded: "His X account name is @kanyewest'. On June 1, Ye went onto X and fumed: 'Ima finally stop using the @kanyewest twitter cause my name is Ye… Gonna start a ye account and it is what it is.' 7 7
Telegraph
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
Take it from me, Harry, it's too late to change your surname, however much you want to
I keep thinking the grievances will end soon. Surely there's no more to come out? Surely we've heard it all by now – in books, in the Netflix series, and in multiple television interviews. But hark, what's this? Another revelation from Montecito. Prince Harry, at one stage of the fallout, apparently discussed changing his name and becoming a Spencer. He talked to his uncle about it, but Charles Spencer counselled against the move, before Harry was advised that the legal issues would be insurmountable. It's a rare moment, these days, that I feel sympathy and kinship with the runaway prince, but I do share some of his anxieties here. In recent years, I've increasingly wondered whether I should start writing under a different name. Not, admittedly, because I've fallen out with my family, moved continents, and now spend my days flying around the globe warning others about global warming. No, my name simply seems to wind up so many people, cause strangers to make so many assumptions about me, and spark such internet grief, that I wonder whether life would be easier if I was something else. Unlike Harry's uncle, my father advised me to change my name when I was starting out. But I was too young, arrogant and determined to listen, and this was 20 or so years ago, when class warfare hadn't quite reached the fever pitch that it has now. I ignored him and have carried on ever since. It's character-building, I've always insisted, through the barbs. Although, last year I was particularly miffed when the best-selling author Kevin Kwan, the writer of Crazy Rich Asians, stuck an airhead journalist called Cosima Money-Coutts in his latest novel. The book had the usual legal disclaimer in the front ('any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental'), but I couldn't help feel that this was a reasonably close resemblance, given that 'Cosima' worked for a posh magazine and I used to work for Tatler. Still, I'll get my own back. I'll name an irritating little berk 'Kevin' in my next book, or maybe an especially yappy dog. So I've stuck with my name, because it is memorable, even if it winds people up. And if I changed it I'd feel fraudulent, like I was running away from something. Now poor Dennis the terrier has been lumbered with the same. When we visit the vet after yet another pavement chicken bone has become lodged inside him, the receptionist says loudly, 'Dennis Money-Coutts?', and there comes the odd titter in the waiting room. It's character-building, I remind him in the car home. If you stopped the average person in the street, I'm not sure they'd know what Prince Harry's surname actually was. Windsor? Mountbatten-Windsor? Wales? He went by Wales at school and for a spell afterwards, I know, because a friend had an excruciating run-in with him over exactly this. It was a shooting weekend, and various 20-something posh boys were joshing one another drunkenly after dinner. 'Wales! Wales!' they kept calling Harry, so my friend, who knew the group less well, decided he could call him that too. 'Wales!' he cried across the table, only for Prince Harry to look up sharply and wag his finger at him. My friend had overstepped the mark – too familiar. A touch of the Prince Andrews about that exchange, I've always felt. If it's a disguise he's after, it's his first name he should worry about. That's the one we really know. How about Prince Larry? Prince Barry? Prince Gary? But it was Spencer he wanted, with one rumour suggesting this was because his wife was particularly keen. I'm not sure how many of you found time to watch it, but in Meghan's most recent television series, she talks determinedly of being Sussex. 'It's so funny you keep saying 'Meghan Markle,'' she admonishes a friend, while demonstrating how to make a sandwich, although she doesn't sound like she finds it very funny at all; 'You know I'm Sussex now.' Except 'Spencer' would bring her closer to Diana, says a source, which is what she really wants. A friend of mine who is a Spencer (no relation to Charles) says her American colleagues constantly ask whether she's related to Diana, so perhaps the idea that this is what people would assume isn't as far-fetched as it sounds. Although, my friend is half-Korean, so I love the idea that her colleagues are trying to work her into the Althorp family tree. Unfortunately, the change would also make Harry and Meghan's daughter Lilibet Diana Spencer, and is that a good name to saddle a small girl with? I'm also just not sure Meghan would want to be plain old Meghan Spencer. What, no dukedom? The trouble is, for Harry, that while he may want to change his name, it wouldn't change who he is. Symbolic, yes, and another potential wedge driven between him and his father and brother. Maybe, for a spell, it would make him feel angry relief at putting another bollard between them. Not content with moving 5,000 miles away, he'll cast off their name, too. More and more Shakespearean by the day. 'Presume not that I am the thing I was,' and all that. But just as I'd be the same, writing the same jokes about dogs and posh matters, albeit in disguise as Sophie Cash-Natwest (or something terrifically cryptic like that), so would he. Prince Harry, or Harry Spencer, once the boy that everyone had such a soft spot for; now, still, so furious at everyone's behaviour but his own. More grown-up, more sensible to stick with what you have already, Harry. That's what I always tell myself, anyway.
Irish Times
4 days ago
- General
- Irish Times
Changing surnames after marriage: ‘If it's good enough for Amal Clooney, it's good enough for me'
Timothy Harnedy, a data engineer, didn't have to think twice about changing his surname to that of his wife Deirdre's after getting married in 2014. The decision was 'quick and easy', he says, as it was important to him that they had a shared family name and important to his wife that she kept her name. Harnedy, from Cork, is just one of many readers who wrote to The Irish Times to share their opinions on women changing their names after marriage following a recent column by Áine Kenny , who bemoaned what she considers the 'normalisation of symbolic control' in heterosexual relationships. Harnedy explained how, in the internet age, he realised his name was not a unique identifier. So the 'simple solution' to adopt his wife's surname made them both happy. Some people close to him continue to struggle with their decision, Harnedy says, and they still receive post on occasion addressed to Mr and Mrs with his birth surname. READ MORE It is thought that women have been changing their surnames to their husband's upon marriage since as far back as the 15th century. A 2023 study conducted by the US-based Pew Research Centre found that 79 per cent of women took their husband's last name, 14 per cent kept their own last name and 5 per cent went for a double-barrelled option. Small studies show that among LGBTQ married couples, the majority of individuals opt to keep their own last name, followed by double-barrelled names. Catherine Crichton, who lives in Dublin, chose to change her surname after getting married. 'I thought feminism was about a woman's right and freedom to make her own decisions in life? That must include what name she wishes to be known by after marriage,' Crichton says. Catherine Crichton in Glasnevin, Dublin. Crichton chose to change her surname after getting married. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill In her opinion, taking a new surname is an 'equally valid decision as keeping her previous one', pointing out that in many cases the 'original' name will have come 'from the woman's father'. 'Every woman's decision and the reasons behind it should be respected, and not criticised by other women,' Crichton says. 'If it's good enough for world renowned human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, it's good enough for me.' Amal Clooney changed her surname from Alamuddin when she married the actor George Clooney in 2014. When Liam Garvey and his wife Áine Halpin got married 25 years ago, she said 'I suppose I'll change to Garvey', he recalls, to which he replied: 'Why on Earth would you do that?' 'Mrs Garvey was my mother; Áine Garvey was my sister; Áine Halpin was the woman I fell in love with and wanted to spend the rest of my life with,' he says. Garvey is occasionally assumed to be 'Mr Halpin' while his wife is sometimes thought to be 'Mrs Garvey'. 'Having a single family name is practical, but it does not have to be the husband's,' he says. Garvey and many other readers suggested adopting double-barrelled surnames as an option, pointing to Spain where children are often given both their mother and father's last names. Traditionally, the father's surname was first followed by the mother's, but since 1999 Spanish law has allowed parents to choose the order of their children's names. Academic Dr Deirdre Foley says that as a historian of women and gender in Ireland, changing surnames is a 'constant frustration' as women are 'harder to trace in archives and can erase their personal identity'. Referring to one well-known activist couple from Irish history, Dr Foley says: 'I have long admired how Hanna and Francis Sheehy-Skeffington chose to double-barrel their name, but they were certainly lucky that the names flowed well together.' Dr Foley acknowledges how some women may change their last name following family trauma or estrangement, but says the tradition is a 'hetero-patriarchal norm' and 'a huge inconvenience for women who do make the switch'. Dr Foley considers this issue as one that women 'can opt out of', unlike other 'greater inequalities such as rape culture, unequal pay, maternity leave and the staggering cost of childcare'. Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington with her husband Francis Growing up in Tipperary, Nuala Woulfe says she was 'never too fond' of her first name but felt her surname was 'more interesting' and 'part of her identity'. For that reason, after getting married, she chose to keep her maiden name. 'I would have seen losing my surname as a blow,' Woulfe says. 'Keeping my maiden name has been a way to reconnect with my younger self, I haven't disappeared into my relationship nor do I belong to my husband. I think keeping your name makes a relationship more interesting.' Woulfe adds that should any of her three daughters choose to take their husbands' surnames, that would be fine by her. 'Women should do what they want, it's nobody's business but their own,' she says. Dave Barry, who lives in London, says he and his wife Zara Qadir have had 'zero issues' since his wife chose to keep her maiden name after they married 13 years ago. However, some family and friends continue to refer to his wife using his surname on Christmas cards and wedding invitations, despite being corrected, he says. Barry believes this behaviour 'stems from an underlying, insidious belief that a woman retaining her identity after marriage is somehow incorrect, or that in using her maiden name, she has somehow absent-mindedly forgotten her new name'. In the past he has been asked: 'How will people know you are married?' Barry feels the obvious response is: 'How is that anyone's business but ours?' [ The rise of the wedding content creator: 'I didn't want to spend so much money on a two-hour video that I'm never going to watch' Opens in new window ] Today, some women may choose to take their husband's surname for many different reasons. Perhaps they value having one 'family unit' name; they may be estranged from their birth family; they may prefer their husband's surname; or they may have fears about travelling with their children with different last names. One reader, who wishes to remain anonymous, recalls being stopped at passport control while travelling with her child and asked how she was related to her son. 'It was unnerving, you're thinking how do I prove it's my child,' she says. Once she showed his birth certificate, the problem was resolved. She always carries the birth certificate with her while travelling now, although she has not been stopped since. When getting married, she didn't change her name, explaining it would have felt 'weird' to do so. 'The tradition perpetuates the notion that a married man is the head of the household,' she says. In this day and age, she feels it is lazy to assume parents and children will have the same surname with so many examples of married women who keep their birth name; unmarried parents; same-sex parents and divorced or remarried parents. 'I understand passport officers need to be careful but there's no excuse for anyone else to presume,' she says.
Daily Mail
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Anne Hathaway makes shock revelation about her name
Ever since she was skyrocketed into the spotlight as a teenager thanks to her role in The Princess Diaries, the world has known her as Anne Hathaway. Fans and media alike have called her Anne for more than two decades, but it turns out, she would prefer that you call her something else. During an appearance on Jimmy Fallon 's The Tonight Show in 2021 - which recently resurfaced - the actress, 42, admitted that she wants to go by 'Annie' rather than 'Anne.' 'Call me Annie, everybody. Everybody, call me Annie, please!' she begged during the virtual interview. 'Can we talk about my name for a second?' she asked the host after he introduced her as Anne. The Academy Award winner explained that the issue with her name stemmed from when she joined the Screen Actors Guild as a teenager. 'When I was 14 years old, I did a commercial, and I had to get my SAG card and they asked me, "What do you want your name to be?"' she recalled. 'And I was like, "Well, it should be my name. My name's Anne Hathaway." But during an appearance on The Tonight Show in 2021 - which recently resurfaced - the actress, 42, admitted that she wants people to call her 'Annie' rather than 'Anne' 'So that seemed like the right choice, but it never occurred to me that for the rest of my life, people [would] call me Anne.' She added that this upset her because the name 'Anne' actually reminded her of her when she would get in trouble as a child. 'The only person who calls me Anne is my mother and she only does it when she's really mad at me, like really mad,' continued the star. 'So, every time I step out in public and someone calls my name, I think they're going to yell at me.' The actress joked: 'People are like, "Anne!" And I'm like, "What? What did I do?"' Hathaway shared that even on movie sets, her co-stars and the crew aren't sure what to call her so they have started to use nicknames. 'On sets, nobody is comfortable calling me Anne ever. It doesn't fit. I'm an Annie,' she detailed. 'And so people call me, like, "Miss H." People call me "Hath." So feel free, call me anything but Anne.' Getting the memo, Fallon referred to the Princess Diaries actress as Annie for the remainder of the virtual interview Getting the memo, Fallon then referred to the Princess Diaries actress as Annie for the remainder of their chat. Hathaway and Fallon went on to talk about her home life as she is the mother of her two sons - now eight-year-old Jonathan and a four-year-old Jack - whom she shares with her husband of 12 years, Adam Shulman. The resurfaced admission about her name comes weeks after Hathaway sparked plastic surgery speculation. While attending the 2025 Met Gala in May, the star she displayed her smooth skin and youthful complexion. People took note of her ageless appearance in the comment section of an interview that Hathaway did with Vogue on the carpet - and many wondered if she had work done to her face. 'Whoa she really got some obvious work done on her upper face. Maybe brow lift. She's trying to distract/cover up with pulled back hair,' one user posted.
