Overview
- Court records show Zahara Marley Jolie-Pitt filed a name-change petition on April 28, 2026, asking the Los Angeles Superior Court to record her legal name as Zahara Marley Jolie.
- Multiple outlets published the filing on June 9–10 after reviewing court documents, and a judge is scheduled to hear the request on Sept. 28, 2026.
- Reporting notes Zahara has publicly omitted 'Pitt' before, including when she introduced herself at a 2023 Alpha Kappa Alpha event and when her name was read as Zahara Marley Jolie at her Spelman College graduation on May 17.
- Zahara is at least the third of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s children to seek to drop 'Pitt' after Shiloh and Maddox, a pattern outlets link to family estrangement following the couple’s long legal disputes that ended in late 2024.
- Under California practice, adult name-change petitions are processed through Superior Court and typically require a hearing but do not have to state a public reason; the Sept. 28 hearing is the next tangible step to watch for how the court rules and how the family responds.