Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt’s son Maddox legally drops Pitt from last name

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's eldest son no longer shares his father's last name.

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge granted the legal name change of Maddox Chivan Jolie, formerly Maddox Chivan Jolie-Pitt, on Monday, Sept. 14, according to documents obtained by USA TODAY. The 25-year-old initially filed to drop Pitt in May, listing the reason as "personal."

Maddox Chivan Jolie – who is one of the famous former couple's six children, along with Pax, 22; Zahara, 21; Shiloh, 20; and twins Vivienne and Knox, 18 – is not the first of his siblings to remove Pitt from their surname in recent years.

In August 2024, Shiloh officially became Shiloh Jolie, three months after submitting her request to the court on her 18th birthday.

Around that same time, Vivienne Jolie-Pitt was credited as Vivienne Jolie for her work as an assistant on Angelina Jolie's buzzy Broadway musical "The Outsiders." She has since taken action to make it legal, filing a petition to change her last name in July.

Later in 2024, Zahara introduced herself with only the last name Jolie during an event for her sorority at Spelman College, according to a video posted by Essence. In June, she began…

Original source: https://www.usatoday.com/entertainment/