Andrea Mitchell's name is Andrea Mitchell

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42. I don't believe anyone on DU has ever seen her official ID such as driver's license or passport, etc

So none of us have any idea if she ever took his name or not. She could have decided to use her maiden name for professional reasons but took his name. Just because someone says their name is Andrea Mitchell and not Andrea Greenspan doesn't mean it's true.

This is coming from someone (me) who, during my career, has had to ID people from all over the world to get their legal names. I worked at a university onboarding professors and deans and nurses, lecturers, performers. It's a place where you typically get all sorts of people from all walks of life. I had a transgender person in the university library who wanted to go by a certain name, but until they could show me proof that they had legally changed their name, I very nicely told them that I would have to enter their name on all their paperwork and in the university directory as their former name. The person was understanding about it and did legally get the name change and brought me the legal documents.

My point is, it's pretty ridiculous that you are so upset by this as if you are a personal friend of Andrea what's-her-name, unless you know her personally.