Overview
- People, citing California court records, reports that Zahara Marley Jolie-Pitt filed a petition to remove 'Pitt' from her legal name on April 28.
- Zahara's filing followed a name-change petition by her brother Maddox and comes after siblings including Shiloh and Vivienne have publicly used 'Jolie' in recent years.
- At her college graduation in Atlanta in May, Zahara was announced on stage as 'Zahara Marley Jolie' even though the printed program listed 'Jolie-Pitt', signaling the change before the court petition.
- The petitions are active public filings in the California court system and no judicial rulings have been reported, so the requests are not yet legally final.
- The moves follow Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's 2016 separation and their December 2024 divorce, and they mark a broader redefinition of how the children present their family identity that could affect public credits and records.