Andi Dorfman

Andi Jeanette Dorfman is an American television personality and former Assistant District Attorney from Fulton County, Georgia. She is notable for being a contestant on the eighteenth season of The Bachelor, and the main character on tenth season of The Bachelorette. She became famous for walking out on bachelor Juan Pablo Galavis in the ninth episode of Bachelor. She became the first bachelorette to acknowledge being of Jewish ancestry in the show's history, and the first attorney to appear in this role.^[1]

Personal life

Dorfman is the younger of two sisters. She was in Phi Mu a sorority at Louisiana State University, from which she graduated in 2009. She then earned her J.D. from Wake Forest University School of Law in 2012. She had been an Assistant District Attorney for Fulton County, Georgia, since passing the bar in 2012 and aimed to "keep her community safe by putting criminals behind bars."^[2]

She became engaged to Josh Murray on May 9th, 2014. On January 8, 2015, the couple announced that they called off their engagement.^[3]

The Bachelor and The Bachelorette

During Juan Pablo's season of The Bachelor (Season 18), Dorfman made it to the eighth episode before pulling herself from the competition.

Dorfman then starred in The Bachelorette Season 10, which premiered on May 19, 2014. She took leave from her job as an assistant district attorney to be on the show. She later resigned from her position rather than ask for additional leave.^[4] Her choice as the winner was Josh Murray, to whom she became engaged in May; on January 8, 2015, Murray and Dorfman announced their decision to end their engagement. Dorfman was paid $50,000 to appear on The Bachelorette, significantly less than prior stars of the show.^[5]

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