In the world of celebrities, the answer is simple: money, power, and control. A name isn’t just an identity. A name is a brand, a business, and sometimes, a battleground. Shakespeare once mused that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but in today’s world of celebrity IP, that rose better be trademarked or risk being turned into a perfume line.
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