Carmen Electra files to legally change her name

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Baywatch star Carmen Electra has legally filed to change her name.

According to courtroom paperwork submitted on 9 January and obtained by Today.com, the mannequin is requesting to change her given name to her skilled name, Carmen Electra.

Today.com additionally famous that within the courtroom paperwork, 26 February 2024 is listed because the date of a listening to for the actor’s request.

The Independent has contacted a consultant for Electra for remark.

When she began working within the leisure trade, Electra initially glided by her start name: Tara Leigh Patrick. According to The Hollywood Reporter, she first auditioned for an all-girl group that Prince was assembling within the Nineteen Nineties’ with her given name.

The 51-year-old later claimed that it was Prince, who produced her solo music album, who gave her the stage name. During an look on Oprah: Where Are They Now? in 2014, she recalled Prince telling her: “You’re not Tara. You’re Carmen.” From there, she went on to embrace the name.

During an interview with The Yo Show! in 2014, she as soon as once more mentioned that after she auditioned for Prince’s group, he advised her: “You look like Electra. That should be your name.”

According to the Good Burger star, she wasn’t initially satisfied that the name was the appropriate match for her. “At first I thought it sounded kinda like a superhero type of name, which actually it is,” she mentioned. “So I was hesitant.”

However, she mentioned that the name then “kind of grew” on her, earlier than noting that she’s “Electra now”.

When she first started her performing profession, she continued to use the name Electra. For instance, when she joined Baywatch in 1998 as Lani McKenzie, she was identified by her stage name.

When Prince died in 2016, Electra issued an announcement to mourn the lack of her “mentor”, with one other point out of how he named her.

“I was so shocked and heartbroken to hear about the loss of my mentor, Prince,” she mentioned within the assertion to US Weekly on the time. “The world has lost a truly incredible spirit and musical genius. What a blessing it is to be one of the chosen ones who had the chance to work so closely with him. He gave me my name, he believed in me, and he has inspired an entire generation. I will always love him.”