{"id":473716,"date":"2026-05-29T21:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T21:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/473716\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T21:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T21:39:07","slug":"angelina-jolie-brad-pitts-son-maddox-files-to-drop-pitt-from-last-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/473716\/","title":{"rendered":"Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt&#8217;s Son Maddox Files to Drop Pitt From Last Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/angelina_jolie\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Angelina Jolie<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/brad_pitt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brad Pitt<\/a>\u2019s son\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/maddox_jolie-pitt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maddox<\/a>\u00a0is setting himself apart from his father.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the former couple&#8217;s eldest child\u2014who was born Maddox Chivan Jolie-Pitt\u2014has filed to legally drop &#8220;Pitt&#8221; from his surname, requesting his name be changed to Maddox Chivan Jolie, according to court documents obtained by E! News May 29.<\/p>\n<p>E! News has reached out to reps for Angelina and Brad, who&#8217;ve yet to publicly address Maddox&#8217;s filing, for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While this marks a new legal move for Maddox, it&#8217;s not the first time he&#8217;s made a change to his moniker.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After all, the 24-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1429047\/angelina-jolie-brad-pitts-son-maddox-drops-pitt-from-last-name\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">removed his father&#8217;s last name<\/a> in the credits for his work in the Angelina-led film Couture, in which he served as an assistant director.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, Maddox&#8217;s updated name was featured in Couture&#8217;s production notes, which were given to journalists at the French drama&#8217;s premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2025.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Maddox, Angelina and Brad\u2014who split in 2016\u2014also share Pax, 22,\u00a0Zahara, 21,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eonline.com\/news\/shiloh_jolie-pitt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shiloh<\/a>, 20, and twins Knox\u00a0and\u00a0Vivienne, 17.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Angelina Jolie\u00a0and\u00a0Brad Pitt\u2019s son\u00a0Maddox\u00a0is setting himself apart from his father. Indeed, the former couple&#8217;s eldest child\u2014who was born&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-473716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}