This follows reports that the ex-couple's 15-year-old daughter, Vivienne, had also removed "Pitt" from her name.
Shiloh Jolie-Pitt, the daughter of Angelina Jolie and Brad
Pitt, has petitioned to remove "Pitt" from her name. On her 18th
birthday, May 27, she filed for the name change in the Los Angeles County
Superior Court. Her current name is Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt. Shiloh is the
third-eldest of the couple's six children.
Previously, the ex-couple's 15-year-old daughter, Vivienne,
had also reportedly dropped "Pitt" from her name. According to
People, in a poster for the new musical The Outsiders, she was listed as
Vivienne Jolie, not Vivienne Jolie-Pitt. Additionally, last November, their
eldest daughter, Zahara, identified herself as Zahara Marley Jolie when she was
inducted into the Mu Pi chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority at Spelman
College.
These name changes occur amid ongoing reports of strained
relationships between Brad Pitt and his children since Angelina Jolie filed for
divorce and sole physical custody in 2016. The divorce was reportedly triggered
by an incident on a private flight from France to Los Angeles in September
2016, which involved an altercation that also included the children. Brad Pitt
has denied these allegations and was not charged by the FBI, which investigated
the incident.
The former couple is also in a legal dispute over a French
winery they once owned together. In 2022, Brad Pitt sued Angelina Jolie's
company, Nouvel, for allegedly selling her share of the winery without his
consent. In response, Jolie claimed in a court document that she attempted to
sell the Miraval winery, but negotiations failed after Pitt coerced her into
signing a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) that "prohibited Jolie from
speaking (other than in court) about Pitt's abuse."
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