Maddox Jolie Files to Ditch ‘Pitt’ Surname

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It’s been a very long time coming.

A couple of decade in the past, Brad Pitt alienated his youngsters and ended his marriage in a single fell swoop.

Now, Maddox Jolie-Pitt has filed to legally change his surname to “Jolie.”

Good for him!

What’s going to his new title be?

On Thursday, Might 28, The Day by day Mail reported that 24-year-old Maddox has formally filed to drop “Pitt” from his title.

His new authorized title shall be Maddox Chivan Jolie.

Within the submitting, he listed the explanation for the request as “private.”

(These types have a tendency to have particular choices, like how one may amend their title due to a wedding or divorce.)

Identify adjustments are a headache. However this explicit change has been a very long time coming.

Maddox had already stopped utilizing his father’s surname earlier this yr.

For instance, within the credit of Couture, he was listed merely as Maddox Jolie.

(Sure, Couture was Angelina’s movie.)

Informally dropping his dad’s surname from his personal is one factor.

Submitting to legally change his title actually seems like a therapeutic second for Maddox. And he’s not alone.

What number of Pitts are left?

Shiloh was the primary of the youngsters to file for a authorized title change. She made the submitting on her 18th birthday.

(For years, she’d been offered in tabloids as a “daddy’s lady” who wished that her mother and father would merely reconcile. One can’t assist however marvel if this title change submitting was, partly, a response this this narrative.)

Additionally in 2024, Zahara introduces herself as Zahara Marley Jolie when she joined her Spelman School sorority. Pax additionally ditched the Pitt title, albeit informally.

In actual fact, up to now, the one Jolie youngsters who appear to have “Pitt” as a part of their names are Knox and Vivienne.

The twins are each 17. Once they flip 18, possibly they’ll preserve the Pitt surname. However possibly not. We’ll discover out.

Angelina Jolie filed to divorce Brad Pitt in 2016. The divorce course of was prolonged and painful, solely being finalized in 2024.

Allegedly, Pitt attacked her and at the very least one in all his youngsters throughout a personal flight.

Angelina took that personally, as she ought to. It seems that her youngsters did the identical.

Maddox truly testified in opposition to his father. Ditching daddy dearest’s title actually isn’t a lot of a shock.

Some folks preserve the surname of a father or mother with whom they’ve gone no contact, out of comfort or to match their names with siblings. However, in Maddox’s case, protecting his father’s surname would make him the odd man out in his household.