What happens when the person whose name is the brand is no longer part of the brand?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/06/business/kate-spade-fashion-brand.html

Design agency Studio Build has updated the branding system it created for Nike Track and Field in 2016, adding an arrow element commonly painted on running tracks.

https://www.dezeen.com/2018/06/08/studio-build-nike-track-field-branding-graphic-design-acceleration-arrows/.

The New Yorker’s staff has unionized, and mascot Eustace Tilley is there to lend his dandified support.

https://www.fastcodesign.com/90174756/the-new-yorkers-iconic-logo-gets-a-brilliant-remix .