Overview
- Vivienne Marcheline Jolie‑Pitt filed a petition in late July to change her legal name to Vivienne Marcheline Jolie and listed the reason as “personal,” with a Los Angeles County Superior Court hearing set for November 2, 2026.
- The filing follows Shiloh’s approved name change in August 2024 and joins pending petitions from Maddox and Zahara, whose hearings are scheduled for September 14 and September 28, 2026, respectively.
- News organizations report the filings are documented in court records obtained by People magazine and that the children had already begun using the Jolie surname publicly in some cases, including Vivienne’s Broadway credit in May 2024.
- Neither Vivienne nor her parents have commented publicly on the petition, and coverage relies on court filings plus anonymous sources, with some sources close to Brad Pitt saying he feels alienated and others close to Angelina Jolie emphasizing the children’s privacy and well‑being.
- The petitions come against a decade of legal conflict between Pitt and Jolie, including ongoing disputes over Château Miraval, and the upcoming hearings will determine whether the children’s informal name use becomes their legal identity and could deepen public scrutiny of the family’s long‑running rifts.