According to Wiki,
If my name were Monica Lewinsky, I would legally change it, pronto. Seems like an obvious thing to do…
I’m kinda skeptical that a “Jane Smith” with Lewinsky’s job history would be any better off.
OK, OK, if she were to change her name, she could change it to something less obviously made up.
But I think that marketing jobs for non-profits is the type of occupation where you are going to be judged by who you know, and a person with no public history is not neccessarily more employable than one with a notorious history.
I think she’d have been better off looking for a less public career.
Because “Monica Lewinsky changes her name to Jane Doe to escape infamy” is a news story.
Because for better or for worse, it’s her name.
More importantly, why doesn’t she team up with Oral Roberts? Death is no excuse!
You know who else changed his name?
Because a legal name change is part of the public record and the paparazzi would be on it in an instant, giving her new identity instant notoriety.
Trust me on this - I changed my name 25 years ago when I got married, I’m no one famous in real life, I’ve moved to another state, and I still get mail with my maiden name on it. Somehow people keep finding me and associating me with a name I haven’t used in a quarter century
Now, imagine you’re someone (in)famous.
It won’t work, short of getting a sealed court record and I’m not sure “I want people to forget I gave the President a blow job” will convince a judge to do that.
William Blythe?
Didn’t she get rich off of book deals? Why does she need to work full time?
Also I don’t think she should change her name. She was in her early 20s when she had the affair. If Bill Clinton can find work and doesn’t have to change his name then it isn’t fair that she has to.
Looking at pictures, she got kind of hot in her 40s.
Let that other Monica Lewinsky change HER name! She’s the one that sucks!
Ah, er, um, ah, joke in there someplace that’s fer sure!!
One of Fred Phelp’s younger daughters changed her surname when she began her own professional career. She had escaped the family, and the name Phelps, here in Topeka, is, however common, a burden to someone practising law.
You expect us to swallow that?
I think it was a come on.
She should just do porn and get it over with
Oh my god, she sucks.
I’ll find my way out…
Because it doesn’t matter what she calls herself legally; everybody will call her Monica Lewinsky, except maybe when interviewing her.
Kate Middleton “changed her name” officially - she’s Her Royal Highness, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge - but she’s still called “Kate Middleton” by who knows how many people, and magazines, and TV shows.
She could do what tons of people who don’t like their name do and applying for jobs using her middle name. Helen* Lewinsky would probably open more doors, with no legal document trail.
*I don’t know her real middle name and don’t care enough to look it up. It is unimportant to my point.
Yeah, it’s pretty well known that Bill Clinton himself was once Bill Blythe.
And Gerald Ford was once Leslie King. Both were adopted.