Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s daughter, Shiloh, is moving forward with her plan to remove “Pitt” from her legal name.
The 18-year-old recently published a notice in the Los Angeles Times to announce that she was dropping “Pitt” from her surname. Contrary to earlier reports that it was an ad, an insider confirmed to Page Six that it was a legal notice.
In accordance with California law, a person must publish a request in the notices section of a newspaper that is in general circulation. Shiloh is seeking to change her name from Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt to Shiloh Nouvel Jolie.
According to Page Six, Shiloh filed the petition on her 18th birthday in May, suggesting she doesn’t want to be associated with her famous father amid his contentious divorce battle with the “Girl, Interrupted” star.
An insider told “Entertainment Tonight” that Shiloh hired and paid for her own attorney, so “Angie doesn’t know and can’t speak for it.” However, Pitt insiders question who was really behind the significant move, telling Page Six, “Reasonable people should draw their own conclusions as to who was actually behind it.”
A source also told People that the “Ocean’s 11” actor was “aware and upset” about his daughter’s actions. “He’s never felt more joy than when she was born. He always wanted a daughter,” the source shared. “The reminders that he’s lost his children are, of course, not easy for Brad. He loves his children and misses them. It’s very sad.”
In fact, the former couple’s other children have also dropped his surname in public settings. Last fall, Pitt and Jolie’s eldest, Zahara, made headlines when she proudly shouted her shortened name during an Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority induction ceremony in November 2023, screaming, “Zahara Marley Jolie.”
Vivienne Jolie-Pitt, 16, also denounced her father’s surname when she used Vivienne Jolie in the Playbill for the Broadway adaptation of “The Outsiders,” where she worked as an assistant with her 49-year-old mother.
“It’s extremely upsetting,” a Pitt source admitted to Page Six in June regarding all the name changes, claiming, “She has used the kids as a weapon against Brad … she has separated them from him. There is a whole pattern: Any time he has a win in court, she hits back with something to do with the kids.”
