Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s eldest son has made a serious public resolution to distance himself from his well-known father.
Maddox Jolie-Pitt, 24, has formally filed authorized paperwork to take away “Pitt” from his surname, based on courtroom paperwork obtained by E! Information.
If accredited, he’ll formally be often known as Maddox Chivan Jolie.
Maddox Jolie-Pitt is chopping his father’s well-known final identify. GC Photographs
The step comes after the filmmaker quietly dropped Pitt from his skilled identify earlier this 12 months whereas engaged on his mom’s upcoming movie, Couture, the place he was credited as “Maddox Jolie”.
Maddox is the eldest of the six youngsters shared by Pitt and Jolie, his siblings are Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, Knox and Vivienne.
Affectionately often known as Brangelina, the couple met in 2004 on the set of the movie Mr. & Mrs. Smith.and share Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, Knox and Vivienne
By the point the movie was launched in 2005, Pitt had left Jennifer Aniston to be with Jolie, who had adopted Maddox from a Cambodian orphanage in 2002, when he was seven months outdated.
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Angelina Jolie with child Maddox in Could 2003. Ron Galella Assortment by way of Getty
The couple married in 2014 at their French chateau, earlier than separating in 2016 following an incident on a non-public jet because it was ferrying the household from Europe to the US.
Their divorce was finalised in December 2024, following disputes over custody of the youngsters and property, together with the French chateau.
Maddox will not be the one one of many former couple’s youngsters to publicly distance himself from the Pitt surname, regardless of its star energy.
Final 12 months, daughter Shiloh efficiently petitioned a courtroom to legally take away Pitt from her final identify shortly after turning 18.
In the meantime, Zahara launched herself as Zahara Marley Jolie throughout a sorority occasion in 2023, whereas youthful sister Vivienne was credited as “Vivienne Jolie” within the Playbill for the Broadway musical The Outsiders.
Brad Pitt is alleged to be “damage” by his youngsters’s selections to drop his final identify, with a supply saying the information has been “very troublesome.”
“[Brad’s] greatest worry is to be completely disconnected from the children as a result of he does need to discover a method to make issues proper,” an insider defined to US Weekly.
Maddox and his siblings at the moment are reportedly estranged from Pitt. Getty
“His greatest worry is that an excessive amount of time goes by and the extra time with out one thing occurring, the more durable it is going to be to reconcile.”
Within the years for the reason that couple’s divorce, particulars have emerged about their household life.
Pax, whom Jolie adopted in 2007 from Vietnam earlier than Pitt formally adopted him a 12 months later, was first to talk out.
Taking to social media in 2020, he wrote a scorching publish on Instagram to mark Father’s Day within the US, during which he referred to Pitt as a “world-class a—hole” and a “despicable human being”.
Pax Thien Jolie-Pitt, Zahara Marley Jolie and Maddox Chivan Jolie have stood by their mum. Getty Photographs for FLC
He additionally claimed Pitt’s 4 youngest youngsters “tremble in worry when in your presence”.
All the youngsters at the moment are reportedly estranged from their dad, who is predicted to lose any remaining custody rights when Vivienne and Knox flip 18 in July.
Whereas neither Pitt nor Jolie has publicly commented on Maddox’s submitting, the actor beforehand admitted he struggled following the breakdown of his household.
In a 2017 interview with GQ, Pitt stated the divorce pressured him to replicate on the type of father he needed to be.
“I’ve to be extra for them. I’ve to indicate them,” he stated on the time.
“And I have not been nice at it.”
