[Last Dakotan]

Strauss-Kahn

I never understood the hyphenated name for a man of his stature. The only guys with hyphenated names I know of are blue collar types married to white collar women.

[Amberdawn]

In Europe, it is common.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

She's a billionaire. He's just an overpaid bureaucrat, with political connections and aspirations. That's a bigger gap than in your white collar woman vs. blue collared man scenario.

[kearnyirish2]

“The only guys with hyphenated names I know of are blue collar types married to white collar women.”

That’s funny; like Jefferson Darcy in “Married with Children” (he took his wife’s last name - no hyphen).

[Mila]

" I never understood a hyphenated name for a man of his stature. The only guys with hyphenated names I know of are blue collar types married to white collar women."

In his case it's his family's surname. He is the son of a lawyer by the name of Gilbert Strauss-Kahn. I just thought of someone else with French roots who has a hyphenated surname,actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Her father, who was born in Paris, is billionaire Dreyfus Group heir Gerard Louis-Dreyfus.