Portia de Rossi is now Officially Portia Lee James DeGeneres

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The Los Angeles court officially granted Portia de Rossi's petition to take her wife Ellen Degeneres' last name. The 37 year-old actress will now legally be known as Portia Lee James DeGeneres.

DeGeneres and de Rossi wed in Los Angeles in 2008 during the time when gay marriage is still legal but Proposition 8 came to the picture.

Last month after Proposition 8 was overturned, Portia decided to filed the papers "taking the last name of her spouse."

[photo courtesy by Bauer Griffin]

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