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LA court blocks Frank Ocean name-change
By Aly Barchi | Published on Tuesday 11 November 2014
Apparently the ‘rap vocalist’ the world knows as Frank Ocean, who back in March applied to legally change his birth name, Christopher Breaux, to his long(ish)-time alias (Frank Ocean), has had that request denied because of a stack of driving fines and speeding tickets he has picked up lately.
TMZ reports that the singer was given three tickets in the LA area in as many months over one especially carefree summer: driving with an expired license, driving with his headlights off, and most recently, the classic: ‘exceeding the speed limit’. In that order. Ocean has also, adds TMZ, had his license suspended twice over skipped court dates.
The upshot of all this is that his name-change application has been placed on ice pending a deep clean of his record. After which ‘Christopher’ can reapply.
