There was one primary motivator for Jamie Foxx’s daughter Corinne Foxx wanting to distance herself from her father’s fame. “I had a lot of people telling me, ‘You don’t have to go to college. You can just go straight into the entertainment world. Doors will open for you,” she told Togethxr’s “More Than a Name.” But Corinne attended USC rather than “ride on [her] dad’s coattails.”
“I did consider, honestly, changing my last name,” she admitted. “But as I’ve gotten older, I’ve one, made peace with people are gonna think things about me that I have no control of. And two: I’m proud of my dad, and I’m proud of who he is, and I’m proud of the work he’s done, and I’m proud of just the person that he is,” Corinne said, explaining she’s used her name to “lead [people] to things that are enriching and enlightening.”
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Meanwhile, many are convinced Corinne has changed her name — to Foxx, not from it. Per Distractify, a Wikipedia error started the rumors. The online encyclopedia that’s curated by volunteers claimed she was born “Corinne Marie Bishop” and later switched to her famous father’s name. Corinne debunked the rumor on TikTok. She explained her dad’s birth name was Bishop, but he’d legally changed it to Foxx by the time she was born, and that’s the name listed on her birth certificate. However, Wikipedia refused to change the error. Thankfully, one of Corinne’s followers saved the day by successfully submitting an edit request.
