Once upon a time in Hollywood, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie\u2019s son Maddox filed to legally drop the actor\u2019s last name.<\/p>\n
The 24-year-old made the request on Thursday and listed his reasoning as \u201cpersonal,\u201d in court documents obtained by Page Six.<\/p>\n
If the change is granted, his name will be Maddox Chivan Jolie instead of Maddox Chivan Jolie-Pitt.<\/p>\n
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie\u2019s son Maddox (pictured above in November 2013) has reportedly filed to ditch the actor\u2019s last name. Getty Images<\/p>\n
The 24-year-old (pictured above in April 2023), labeled his reasoning as \u201cpersonal,\u201d according to the Daily Mail. Getty Images<\/p>\n
Daily Mail was the first to report<\/a> the news.<\/p>\n Reps for Pitt and Jolie did not immediately respond to Page Six\u2019s requests for comment.<\/p>\n A source told us that \u201cit\u2019s not a surprise this news was released shortly after\u201d our Wednesday reporting that Pitt scored a \u201csignificant evidentiary victory\u201d<\/a> in his and Jolie\u2019s ongoing Ch\u00e2teau Miraval legal battle<\/a>.<\/p>\n Maddox, notably, informally ditched his dad\u2019s surname<\/a> in February credits for his work on Jolie\u2019s most recent movie.<\/p>\n Maddox (pictured above in 2014) wants to be Maddox Chivan Jolie \u2014 instead of Jolie-Pitt. \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n Pitt (pictured above in September 2024) has yet to comment on the report. Getty Images<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\tWant more celebrity and pop culture news?\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with Page Six Daily.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n He worked as an assistant director on \u201cCouture\u201d and, per People, was listed at the time as Maddox Jolie.<\/p>\n Two years prior, he was credited as Maddox Jolie-Pitt for his work as executive producer on \u201cMaria.\u201d<\/p>\n Maddox\u2019s decision to take the legal route comes on the heels of his 20-year-old sibling, Shiloh, doing the same.<\/p>\n When Shiloh turned 18 in May 2024, the teenager filed to drop Pitt<\/a> \u2014 and the request was granted<\/a> three months later.<\/p>\n Maddox (pictured above in December 2009) informally dropped the surname earlier this year. Getty Images<\/p>\n In February, Maddox was listed as Maddox Jolie for his work on \u201cCouture.\u201d BeautifulSignatureIG \/ Shutterstock \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n Shiloh\u2019s move symbolized not just \u201ca name change\u201d but a \u201cdeeper estrangement that has been brewing for years\u201d \u2014 and left Pitt \u201cdevastated,\u201d<\/a> a source told Us Weekly in June 2024.<\/p>\n The insider, however, insisted he was \u201cnot ready to give up\u201d on Shiloh, Maddox and the rest of their siblings<\/a> \u2014 Pax, 22, Zahara, 21, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 17.<\/p>\n The outlet reported the following year that Pitt \u201cperiodically\u201d sees his youngest two children but has \u201cstrained\u201d relationships<\/a> with the rest of his brood.<\/p>\n The kids have repeatedly made headlines for not using the \u201cF1\u201d star\u2019s last name for graduations<\/a>, Broadway Playbills<\/a>, sorority initiations<\/a> and more.<\/p>\n His siblings (pictured above in February 2019) have made similar moves in recent years. Getty Images for Netflix<\/p>\n Pitt (pictured above in June 2025) is reportedly \u201cdevastated\u201d by his estrangement from his and Jolie\u2019s kids. Gareth Cattermole\/Getty Images<\/p>\n Pitt and Jolie called it quits<\/a> in 2016 after 12 years together, becoming legally single<\/a> in 2019.<\/p>\n When their contentious divorce<\/a> battle was settled<\/a> in December 2024, Pitt told GQ it wasn\u2019t \u201cthat major of a thing\u201d<\/a> but \u201cjust something coming to fruition.\u201d<\/p>\n He has been in a relationship<\/a> with jewelry designer Ines de Ramon<\/a> since 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Once upon a time in Hollywood, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie\u2019s son Maddox filed to legally drop the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[12374,9455,3491,49,48,361,13163,23496,362,75,4535],"class_list":["post-701826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-angelina-jolie","tag-brad-pitt","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity-children","tag-celebrity-dads","tag-celebrity-news","tag-entertainment","tag-parents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}