By Eili Cordova
According to TMZ, Maddox filed legal papers to officially remove “Pitt” from his namebecoming “Maddox Chivan Jolie”. This decision is not a surprise, since the 23-year-old had already stopped using his paternal surname in the professional field. Recently, he worked as an assistant director on the film “Couture” by his mother, Angelina Jolie, toappearing in the credits as “Maddox Jolie.”
Maddox is not the first of “Brangelina’s” children to distance themselves from their father’s surname. Shiloh, now 20 years old, requested to change her name to “Shiloh Nouvel Jolie” on the day he came of age, in May 2024. The request was granted by a Los Angeles court a few months later.
For her part, Zahara also revealed her preference for her mother’s surname. Upon receiving your diploma at Spelman College, your name It was read as “Zahara Marley Jolie”, although in the graduation program she appeared as “Zahara Marley Jolie-Pitt”.
The youngest of the sisters, Vivienne, 17, also chose to appear as “Vivienne Jolie” in the musical program “The Outsiders”, which he helped produce with his mother. This informal change was confirmed by PEOPLE in May 2024.
Only Pax, 22, and Knox, 17seem to have maintained the “Jolie-Pitt” label until now.
An obvious distancing
The relationship between Brad Pitt and his children deteriorated noticeably after the couple’s separation in 2016, after more than a decade together.
Angelina Jolie filed for divorce, alleging that Pitt had physically and verbally abused her and her children during an incident on a plane. In a countersuit, the actress went so far as to claim that Brad “He strangled one of the children and hit another in the face.”
In response, a representative for the actor insisted: “Brad took responsibility for what he did, but he won’t take responsibility for things he didn’t do.”
The ethical dispute lasted for years, not only over custody and divorce — which was finally resolved in December 2024 — but also over a complicated battle over the Château Miraval winery that they both owned.
Regarding Maddox’s name change, a source close to Brad Pitt told Entertainment Weekly: “It is not surprising that this news spread shortly after Brad had a significant evidentiary victory in the Miraval case.”
So far, representatives of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have not made official comments on Maddox’s ethical request.
Continue reading:
· After his controversial separation from Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt does not want to remarry
· Maddox, son of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, drops the actor’s last name
· Angelina Jolie could leave the United States in the coming months, according to new reports
