Two more of Brad Pitt’s kids have utilized to legally drop his surname.
The star’s daughter Zahara, 21, and son Maddox, 24, are each searching for to take away Pitt from their authorized names, in accordance to courtroom paperwork filed in California. They cited private causes for requesting the change.
This is the most recent growth within the high-profile breakdown of Pitt’s marriage to fellow A-lister Angelina Jolie. The former Hollywood energy couple have been locked in disputes since they break up a decade in the past. They lastly settled their divorce on the finish of 2024 however proceed to be embroiled in a authorized battle over Château Miraval, the French vineyard they previously owned collectively.
In paperwork submitted electronically to the Superior Court of California in Los Angeles final month, the actors’ daughter utilized to change her identify from Zahara Marley Jolie-Pitt to Zahara Marley Jolie. Her brother Maddox additionally requested the courtroom for permission to take away Pitt from his double-barreled household identify on the finish of May.
As required by regulation, the siblings subsequently each positioned advertisements within the Los Angeles Daily Journal as soon as every week for 4 consecutive weeks in June and July, giving anybody who objects to the doable change an opportunity to register their objection. If no person does, a decide is probably going to rule on the change to Maddox’s identify in mid-September, whereas his sister’s case can be determined on the finish of the month.
NCS has reached out to representatives for Pitt. Representatives couldn’t be positioned for Zahara or Maddox.
Jolie and Pitt married in 2014 and filed for divorce in 2016. They share six kids — Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh and twins Knox and Vivienne.
In September 2016, the household flew to the United States from France on a personal jet. In August 2022, particulars surrounding the circumstances of an incident throughout the flight emerged, when a closely redacted FBI report, supplied to NCS by a supply on the time, revealed Jolie had accused Pitt of bodily assaulting her and verbally abusing their kids whereas they had been onboard.
Pitt turned the middle of a probe associated to the incident however was by no means arrested or charged, in accordance to an FBI statement on the time.
Jolie filed for divorce shortly after the 2016 incident.
In an October 2022 countersuit to a authorized case involving their vineyard, Jolie alleged that Pitt “choked one of the children and struck another in the face” throughout the incident. In response, a consultant for Pitt informed NCS in an announcement on the time that, “Brad has accepted responsibility for what he did but will not for things he didn’t do.”
Jolie, who had beforehand used the double-barreled surname, dropped Pitt from her identify in 2019 after a courtroom formally dissolved the wedding. Their daughter Vivienne reportedly used the identify Vivienne Jolie within the playbill for “The Outsiders,” the Tony-winning musical she helped produce together with her mother in 2024. The identical 12 months, Shiloh filed a petition to legally drop Pitt from her surname.