Angelina Jolie’s daughter Shiloh publishes newspaper announcement to drop dad Brad Pitt’s last name
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s daughter Shiloh is forging ahead with her plan to remove Pitt from her legal name.
The 18-year-old recently published a notice in the Los Angeles Times to announce that she was dropping “Pitt” from her surname, court documents obtained by Page Six show. The filing states the notice ran in the newspaper on June 17, June 24, July 1 and July 8.
According to California law, a person is required to publish a request in the notices section of a newspaper that is in general circulation.
The teenager is seeking to change her name from Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt to Shiloh Nouvel Jolie.
As Page Six reported, Shiloh filed the petition on her 18th birthday in May, insinuating that she doesn’t want to be associated with her famous father amid his brutal divorce battle with the “Girl, Interrupted” star.
An insider told “Entertainment Tonight” that Shiloh hired and paid for her own attorney, so “Angie doesn’t know and can’t speak for it.”
However, Pitt insiders question who was really behind the significant move, telling Page Six, “Reasonable people should draw their own conclusions as to who was actually behind it.”
A source also told People that the “Ocean’s 11” actor was “aware and upset” about his daughter’s actions.
He’s never felt more joy than when she was born. He always wanted a daughter,” the source shared.
“The reminders that he’s lost his children, is of course not easy for Brad. He loves his children and misses them. It’s very sad.”
In fact, the former couple’s other kids also have dropped his moniker in public settings. Pitt, 60, and Jolie’s eldest, Zahara, made headlines last fall when she proudly shouted her shortened name during an Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority induction ceremony in November 2023.
The Spelman College student screamed, “Zahara Marley Jolie.”
Vivienne Jolie-Pitt, 16, also denounced her father’s surname when she used Vivienne Jolie in the Playbill for the Broadway adaptation of “The Outsiders,” which she worked on as an assistant with her 49-year-old mother.
“It’s extremely upsetting,” a Pitt source admitted to Page Six in June of all the name changes, claiming, “She has used the kids as a weapon against Brad … she has separated them from him.
“There is a whole pattern: Any time he has a win in court, she hits back with something to do with the kids.”
The “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood” star has been embroiled in a custody battle with Jolie since their 2016 split, and the situation has become exponentially more bitter over the years.
Pitt initially won a 50-50 custody agreement that was sealed for privacy in 2021 but overturned later that year; however, the family’s former security guard Tony Webb alleged in court documents filed in May that Jolie had encouraged the children to “avoid” their father during visits.
The former couple, who were together for 12 years before calling it quits, were declared legally single in 2019. Their battles over their Chateau Miraval winery and child custody remain ongoing.
