{"id":864583,"date":"2026-09-29T10:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T10:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/864583\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T10:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T10:10:13","slug":"brad-pitt-angelina-jolies-daughter-zahara-officially-drops-pitt-last-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/864583\/","title":{"rendered":"Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie&#8217;s Daughter Zahara Officially Drops Pitt Last Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eonline.com\/news\/brad_pitt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Brad Pitt<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/eonline.com\/news\/angelina_jolie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Angelina Jolie<\/a>&#8216;s daughter Zahara has shortened her once-hyphenated moniker.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old has legally dropped her dad&#8217;s surname, with a Los Angeles court granting her request to only have her mom&#8217;s last name moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After review of the case file, the Court rules as follows: There being no objections, the petition for change of name is granted,&#8221; read a court document submitted on Sept. 28 and obtained by E! News. &#8220;The Decree is signed and filed. The Petitioner&#8217;s name is changed from Zahara Marley Jolie-Pitt to Zahara Marley Jolie.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>E! News has reached out to Brad and Angelina&#8217;s reps for comment but hasn&#8217;t heard back.<\/p>\n<p>Zahara first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1432810\/angelina-jolie-brad-pitts-daughter-zahara-files-to-drop-pitt-from-name\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">filed her name change request in June<\/a>, nearly one month after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1432097\/angelina-jolie-brad-pitts-daughter-zahara-graduates-from-spelman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">graduating from Atlanta&#8217;s Spelman College<\/a> with a Bachelor of Arts in psychology.<\/p>\n<p>She <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1433932\/angelina-jolie-brad-pitts-daughter-zahara-name-change-process-next-step\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">published a notice of her intention<\/a> in the Los Angeles Daily Journal in July, fulfilling California&#8217;s requirement that a name change petition must be publicized in a local newspaper to allow anyone contesting the alternation to submit a written opposition before a final hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie&#8216;s daughter Zahara has shortened her once-hyphenated moniker. The 21-year-old has legally dropped her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":864584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":["post-864583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}