Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s son Maddox adjustments identify eight months after sister
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s eldest son has modified his identify, dropping his father’s surname and changing into Maddox Jolie as a substitute.
The 24-year-old not too long ago served as an assistant director on his mum’s new film Couture, which debuted in French cinemas this week, the place the top credit listed him as Maddox Jolie, moderately than Maddox Jolie-Pitt, which is the identify he was given as a child.
The choice to drop the Pitt moniker comes simply eight months after it was reported Maddox’s youthful sister Shiloh had chosen to do the identical after she turned 18.
Maddox had beforehand been credited with the double-barrel surname after serving as a manufacturing assistant on Maria, a biopic about legendary opera singer Maria Callas, which was directed by Jolie.
In response to People, ‘manufacturing notes for the movie supplied to journalists confirmed Maddox’s identify was additionally listed as Maddox Jolie’ when Couture premiered on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition in September 2025.
Final 12 months, after it was reported Shiloh had made the identical determination, her lawyer issued a press release saying the now-19-year-old had ‘made an unbiased and important determination following painful occasions.’
Clarifying the rumours she had deliberately publicised the identify change, he continued: “Shiloh Jolie didn’t take out an ‘advert’ asserting any identify change, and any press reporting that’s inaccurate.
“As Shiloh’s legal professional, I’m required to publish a authorized discover as a result of the legislation in California requires that of anybody who needs to vary their identify. That authorized discover was revealed within the Los Angeles Occasions, as is required.”
Round this time, a supply went on to inform Those who Pitt ‘has nearly no contact with the grownup youngsters,’ including that the actor’s time together with his youthful youngsters is ‘extra restricted in current months due to his filming schedule.’
In the meantime, former couple’s youngest youngster, 17-year-old Vivienne, was credited as Vivienne Jolie on the playbill of Broadway musical The Outsiders, the place she labored behind the scenes as a volunteer manufacturing assistant again in Could 2024.
In 2023, Zahara, now 20, launched herself as Zahara Marley Jolie, after becoming a member of Spelman School, the place she turned a part of the Alpha Kappa Mu Pi sorority.
Pitt and Jolie famously met on the set of Mr and Mrs Smith in 2003, and formally introduced they had been collectively in 2005 after Pitt separated from his then-wife Jennifer Aniston. The pair obtained engaged in 2012 and later married in 2014, with Jolie submitting for divorce simply two years later.
Since then, they have been by quite a lot of authorized disputes, with their divorce lastly settled in December 2024.
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