Shiloh, the daughter of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, recently made a legal move to alter her surname, opting to remove her father’s last name. According to a source close to the situation, Shiloh initiated this action independently.
On her 18th birthday, May 27, Shiloh submitted a petition to a Los Angeles Court, requesting to eliminate the “Pitt” portion of her hyphenated surname, Jolie-Pitt, and to be recognized as Shiloh Nouvel Jolie. The insider revealed that Shiloh took the initiative to hire her own attorney and covered the costs herself.
This decision echoes a similar move by Shiloh’s older sister, Zahara, who chose to go by Zahara Marley Jolie during her sorority induction at Spelman College last November. Additionally, recent reports highlighted that Angelina and Brad’s youngest daughter, Vivienne, is credited as “Vivienne Jolie” in the playbill for a Broadway musical she assisted in producing alongside her mother.
Angelina, who had appended “Pitt” to her surname after marrying Brad in 2014 (though without a hyphen), reverted to her maiden name, Jolie, in 2019 following their divorce proceedings. The former couple remains embroiled in legal disputes over custody of their minor children and ownership of their French winery, Château Miraval.
In an unrelated legal matter concerning the winery, Angelina alleged in an April 4 court filing that Brad had been physically abusive, citing an incident during a private plane trip in September 2016. A source knowledgeable about the litigation criticized this move as a distraction tactic, emphasizing that a prior custody trial had resulted in a shared custody arrangement.
Brad’s representative, responding to Angelina’s accusations, denounced them as baseless, noting that investigations into the alleged incident had been closed without charges in 2016. Furthermore, Angelina had previously changed her surname from Voight to Jolie in 2002, long before her marriage to Brad.
While the former couple had shielded their children from public attention in their early years, recent times have seen occasional appearances by the children alongside their mother at notable events.
