As soon as upon a time in Hollywood, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s son Maddox filed to legally drop the actor’s final identify.
The 24-year-old made the request on Thursday, based on the Day by day Mail, and listed his reasoning as “private.”
If the change is granted, his identify will likely be Maddox Chivan Jolie as an alternative of Maddox Chivan Jolie-Pitt.
Reps for Pitt and Jolie didn’t instantly reply to Web page Six’s requests for remark.
A supply informed us that “it’s not a shock this information was launched shortly after” our Wednesday reporting that Pitt scored a “important evidentiary victory” in his and Jolie’s ongoing Château Miraval authorized battle.
Maddox, notably, informally ditched his dad’s surname in February credit for his work on Jolie’s most up-to-date film.
He labored as an assistant director on “Couture” and, per Folks, was listed on the time as Maddox Jolie.
Two years prior, he was credited as Maddox Jolie-Pitt for his work as govt producer on “Maria.”
Maddox’s choice to take the authorized route comes on the heels of his 20-year-old sibling, Shiloh, doing the identical.
When Shiloh turned 18 in Could 2024, {the teenager} filed to drop Pitt — and the request was granted three months later.
Shiloh’s transfer symbolized not simply “a reputation change” however a “deeper estrangement that has been brewing for years” — and left Pitt “devastated,” a supply informed Us Weekly in June 2024.
The insider, nonetheless, insisted he was “not prepared to surrender” on Shiloh, Maddox and the remainder of their siblings — Pax, 22, Zahara, 21, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 17.
The outlet reported the next 12 months that Pitt “periodically” sees his youngest two kids however has “strained” relationships with the remainder of his brood.
The children have repeatedly made headlines for not utilizing the “F1” star’s final identify for graduations, Broadway Playbills, sorority initiations and extra.
Pitt and Jolie referred to as it quits in 2016 after 12 years collectively, changing into legally single in 2019.
When their contentious divorce battle was settled in December 2024, Pitt informed GQ it wasn’t “that main of a factor” however “simply one thing coming to fruition.”
He has been in a relationship with jewellery designer Ines de Ramon since 2022.
