{"id":538331,"date":"2026-07-22T09:16:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T09:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/538331\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T09:16:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T09:16:16","slug":"daughter-vivienne-jolie-pitt-files-to-legally-drop-brad-pitts-last-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/538331\/","title":{"rendered":"Daughter Vivienne Jolie-Pitt files to legally drop Brad Pitt\u2019s last name"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vivienne\u00a0Marcheline Jolie-Pitt<\/a> has become the fourth of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt\u2019s children<\/a> to legally file a petition to remove \u201cPitt\u201d from their surname.<\/p>\n

The 18-year-old filed a petition in Los Angeles County Superior Court requesting that her legal name be changed<\/a> from Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt to Vivienne Marcheline Jolie, People<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n

\"Vivienne<\/p>\n

Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt is the latest one of Brad Pitt\u2019s children who has filed to legally drop \u2018Pitt\u2019 from their surname. \u00a0Getty Images for Tony Awards Pro<\/p>\n

She lists the reason as \u201cpersonal\u201d.<\/p>\n

A hearing on the petition is scheduled for November, the documents said.<\/p>\n

The move would formalise Vivienne\u2019s distancing from her famous father.<\/p>\n

In May 2024, she was credited as simply Vivienne Jolie in the Playbill for Broadway show The Outsiders<\/a>, which she produced alongside her mother.<\/p>\n

Vivienne joins her siblings, Maddox, Zahara and Shiloh, in her legal filing.<\/p>\n

Shiloh, 20, was granted her petition to drop Pitt from her name in 2024. Maddox, 24, and Zahara, 21, are in the process, with hearings scheduled for September.<\/p>\n

Vivienne\u2019s twin brother, Knox, has also appeared to distance himself from the Pitt surname.<\/p>\n

The teenager used \u201cKnox Jolie\u201d on his high school diploma after graduating in June, Page Six<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n

Known as Brangelina during their time together, Jolie and Pitt met in 2004 on the set of the film Mr. & Mrs. Smith and share the six children, Maddox, Pax, 22, Zahara, Shiloh and twins Knox and Vivienne.<\/p>\n

\"Shiloh<\/p>\n

Jolie is pictured here in 2021 with five of her six children, (L-R) Shiloh, Zahara, Vivienne, Maddox and Knox.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

By the time the film was released in 2005, Pitt had left Jennifer Aniston to be with Jolie, who had already adopted Maddox from a Cambodian orphanage in 2002, when he was seven months old.<\/p>\n

The couple married in 2014 at their French chateau before separating in 2016 following an incident on a private jet as it was ferrying the family from Europe to the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vivienne\u00a0Marcheline Jolie-Pitt has become the fourth of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt\u2019s children to legally file a petition…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-538331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}