{"id":466269,"date":"2026-05-29T14:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T14:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/466269\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T14:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T14:49:09","slug":"brad-pitts-estranged-son-maddox-legally-drops-actors-last-name-for-personal-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/466269\/","title":{"rendered":"Brad Pitt\u2019s Estranged Son Maddox Legally Drops Actor\u2019s Last Name for \u2018Personal\u2019 Reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maddox Jolie-Pitt<\/a> is following in his siblings\u2019 footsteps as he drops his father Brad Pitt<\/a>\u2018s last name.<\/p>\n

According to a report from the Daily Mail on Thursday, May 28, Maddox, 24, officially filed documents to legally change his name to Maddox Chivan Jolie. He listed his reason for the request as \u201cpersonal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maddox had already stopped using the surname informally earlier this year and was listed as simply Maddox Jolie in the end credit of his mother Angelina Jolie<\/a>\u2018s film, Couture.<\/p>\n

His younger sister, Shiloh<\/a>, 20, was the first of Maddox\u2019s siblings to legally petition to change her name<\/a> on her 18th birthday in May 2024 from Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt to Shiloh Nouvel Jolie.<\/p>\n

Later that same year, Zahara<\/a>, 21, introduced herself as Zahara Marley Jolie instead of Zahara Marley Jolie-Pitt when she joined her sorority at Spelman College.<\/p>\n

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Maddox\u2019s decision comes after years of reported tension between him and his father.<\/p>\n

Maddox and Brad, 62, have had a contentious relationship for years. In 2022, a source told In Touch that the Oceans 11 star was \u201csuper upset\u201d about their estrangement<\/a> because they \u201chad such a special connection\u201d when Maddox was younger.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe sent him a gift for his 21st birthday and a loving note as a last ditch effort to make amends, but never heard back,\u201d the source said at the time. \u201cBrad really misses Maddox and was really hoping to repair their relationship, but he has hit a wall.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brad and Angelina, 50, split after two years of marriage in 2016, but their divorce wasn\u2019t finalized until 2024. The former couple has also been embroiled in a yearslong legal battle over their French winery, Chateau Miraval. Earlier this week, a separate source told In Touch that their children have remained firmly supportive of their mother<\/a> amid the ongoing dispute.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are very much of the all-for-one mentality,\u201d the source said on Thursday, May 28. \u201cThey don\u2019t want their mom, or anyone in the family, to ever have financial anxiety.\u201d<\/p>\n

This story Brad Pitt\u2019s Estranged Son Maddox Legally Drops Actor\u2019s Last Name for \u2018Personal\u2019 Reasons<\/a> first appeared on InTouch Weekly<\/a>. Add InTouch Weekly as a Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maddox Jolie-Pitt is following in his siblings\u2019 footsteps as he drops his father Brad Pitt\u2018s last name. According…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[216816,16985,458,146,85,46,216815,156386,156387,216819,216817,157172,216818],"class_list":["post-466269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-brad-and-angelina","tag-brad-pitt","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-maddox-chivan-jolie","tag-maddox-jolie","tag-maddox-jolie-pitt","tag-shiloh-nouvel-jolie","tag-shiloh-nouvel-jolie-pitt","tag-zahara-marley-jolie","tag-zahara-marley-jolie-pitt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}