Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s son Knox silently drops father’s identify weeks earlier than 18th birthday
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s youngest son is the most recent of his siblings to drop his well-known father’s final identify.
In line with a report from Page Six, {the teenager} determined to go by the identify of ‘Knox Jolie’ at his latest highschool commencement earlier this month, a milestone which he celebrated alongside his mom, twin sister Vivienne and older siblings Pax and Zahara.
Knox, who turns 18 subsequent month, is not the primary member of his household to drop the Pitt surname, with brother Maddox submitting to legally change his identify final month.
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The 24-year-old filed paperwork to alter his identify to ‘Maddox Chivan Jolie in Might, with In Touch reporting that the budding director will head to courtroom in September to clarify his reasoning for wanting the identify change.
Maddox had beforehand dropped his double-barrelled surname professionally, being credited as ‘Maddox Jolie’ for the movie Couture, the place he labored as an assistant director.
He is not the one sibling who’s sought to make his identify change authorized, with sister Shiloh efficiently petitioning a Los Angeles courtroom to alter her identify in 2024.
In the meantime, sister Zahara has additionally filed a petition to drop the Pitt surname, in accordance with paperwork obtained by PEOPLE.
The transfer comes simply weeks after the 21-year-old was launched as ‘Zahara Marley Jolie’ when amassing her commencement diploma from Spelman Faculty.
Knox’s twin sister, Vivienne, has additionally unofficially dropped her father’s surname lately, being credited as ‘Vivienne Jolie’ within the playbill for a Broadway manufacturing of The Outsiders, in 2024, which she helped produce alongside her mum.
Below California legislation, an individual should be 18 or over to legally change their identify with out parental consent, which means that Knox and Vivienne will be capable of comply with of their older siblings’ footsteps and file a authorized petition subsequent month, ought to they want to.
As for the previous couple’s second-eldest baby, Pax, it’s presently unclear whether or not or not he has chosen to drop his father’s surname or remains to be legally ‘Pax Jolie-Pitt’ because the 22-year-old seemingly prefers to dwell a extra personal life.
The youngsters’s identify change resolution comes years after Jolie and Pitt’s relationship got here to an finish, with the previous couple’s acrimonious divorce being finalised in December 2024, eight years after she filed.
Through the separation, the Salt actor alleged that Pitt had displayed ‘abusive behaviour’ in the direction of her and their youngsters on a personal aircraft to France in 2016, an alleged incident which got here simply weeks earlier than she filed for divorce.
Pitt denied all allegations towards him, with the case later being dropped.
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