Overview
- Maddox Jolie-Pitt has filed legal paperwork seeking to change his name to Maddox Chivan Jolie and listed his reason in court papers as "personal."
- He has already used Maddox Jolie professionally, appearing in the end credits of Angelina Jolie’s film Couture under that name.
- Several siblings have taken similar steps, with Shiloh already granted a legal name change and Zahara and Vivienne publicly omitting "Pitt" in recent credits and ceremonies.
- The request has not yet been approved by the court and representatives for Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have not issued substantive public comments.
- The move follows the couple’s 2016 separation and later legal disputes over custody and assets, and if granted it would further signal a long-running estrangement within the family.