Overview
- Zahara Marley Jolie‑Pitt filed a petition in Los Angeles Superior Court to become Zahara Marley Jolie, with court records showing the request was filed on April 28, 2026 and processed in early June.
- A judge is scheduled to consider the name change at a hearing in Los Angeles on September 28, 2026, but the court has not yet ruled.
- Zahara has been publicly using Jolie for years, including at her 2023 Alpha Kappa Alpha induction and her May 2026 Spelman College graduation, and her filing formalizes those prior public choices.
- She is at least the third child of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt to move away from using Pitt legally or professionally after Shiloh and Maddox, while Vivienne has used Jolie in production credits.
- The filings follow a long, public family rift that traces to a 2016 private‑jet incident and years of legal disputes between Jolie and Pitt, with sources close to Pitt calling the changes evidence of alienation and other sources stressing the children's independent choices.