Vivienne Jolie-Pitt seeks to drop dad Brad Pitt’s surname

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s youngest daughter, 18-year-old Vivienne, is the latest member of their brood to apply to drop her father’s surname.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s daughter Vivienne wants to legally drop her father’s surname.

The 18 year old has followed her siblings Shiloh, Zahara, and Maddox in filing a petition in Los Angeles County Superior Court to request a change to her legal name, asking for her to be recognised as Vivienne Marcheline Jolie instead of Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt.

The reason listed in documents seen by People magazine was stated as “personal”.

A hearing on the petition has been scheduled for 2 November.

However, the matter may not come as a surprise because in May 2024, she was credited as Vivienne Jolie in the Playbill for The Outsiders on Broadway, which she co-produced with her mother.

Shiloh’s petition to drop Pitt from her surname was filed on her 18th birthday and granted in August 2024, while Zahara and Maddox’s are pending, with their hearings scheduled for September.

However, earlier this month, both siblings completed California’s required newspaper publication process before their name-change hearings, with legal notices published in the Los Angeles Daily Journal over four consecutive weeks.

According to the papers obtained by Page Six. Zahara, 21, filed to become Zahara Marley Jolie after publicly using the name during her graduation from Spelman College earlier this year, while Maddox, 24, is seeking to change his name to Maddox Chivan Jolie.

According to the court documents, Zahara’s legal notice appeared in the Los Angeles Daily Journal on June 16, June 23, June 30 and July 7.

The notice states anyone wishing to oppose the application must submit written objections before the scheduled court hearing.

Zahara is due to appear before a judge on 28 September, when the petition can be approved if no objections are lodged.

Court records also showed Maddox’s notice ran in the same publication on June 10, June 17, June 24 and July 1.

Publishing the notice in a newspaper is one of the legal requirements under California law before a judge can approve a name change.

Zahara filed last month to change her legal name from Zahara Marley Jolie-Pitt to Zahara Marley Jolie.

She had already publicly dropped Pitt from her name during her graduation ceremony at Spelman College, where she was introduced as Zahara Marley Jolie while receiving her diploma.

Maddox also filed his own petition in May, seeking to change his legal name from Maddox Chivan Jolie-Pitt to Maddox Chivan Jolie.

Court documents list the reason for the request as “personal”.

Maddox had already stopped using Pitt professionally, with the surname omitted from the credits of Angelina’s recent film Couture.

A 2021 report by Us Weekly stated Maddox “doesn’t use Pitt as his last name on documents that aren’t legal and instead uses Jolie”, while also reporting Angelina “doesn’t support” that decision.

Reports have suggested all six of Brad and Angelina’s children – including Pax, 22, and Vivienne’s twin brother Knox – have become increasingly estranged from Brad following his and Angelina’s separation in 2016.

However, Page Six recently reported Pax remains close to members of the Moneyball actor’s extended family despite the fact he doesn’t “have much of a relationship with Brad”.