Shiloh Jolie, daughter of the actors Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, requested to remove his father’s last name from his legal name, just after turning 18. The petition was presented last Monday, May 30, three days after reaching the minimum legal age to carry out this procedure.
According to a source close to the case reported by Daily Mail, Shiloh’s decision was linked to “the history of abuse” attributed to Pitt and “the violation of the rights of the victim.”
The dispute over the custody of the six children of Jolie-Pitt (maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, Knox and Vivienne) intensified four years ago, when Shiloh was 14 years old.
She reportedly blamed her father for the legal action that prevented her from testifying about her wishes regarding custody. “He believed he had the right, as a crime victim, to testify, and was prevented from doing so“said a source.
In particular, Shiloh Jolie and her brothers wanted to tell what happened during a flight in 2016an event that led to the definitive end of the marriage angelina and brad. However, the children’s testimony was not admitted in the private hearings that determined shared custody 50-50 between both parents.
“Judge John Oudekirk ruled that custody must be equitable and refused to listen to the children’s evidence“, revealed a source. The children had already been therapeutically evaluated and the reports were presented to the court.
Angelina Jolie requested that her children testify during hearings between December 2020 and May 2021, but her request was denied. As a result, the family dynamic became complicated, especially considering the accusations of Jolie about what Pitt was violent during a flight in 2016 and the emotional impact this had on his children.
An FBI report, published in 2022, described that Jolie accused Brad Pitt of physical assault during said flight, which he flatly denied. Despite the accusations, the Los Angeles Police Department exonerated Pitt of any wrongdoing, which was a constant source of tension within the family.
Shiloh Jolie She was not the first of the siblings to choose to drop their father’s surname. Zahara, currently a student at Spelman College, Atlanta, no longer used the name Pitt. Another indication of the distance between Brad Pitt and her children is that neither she nor her siblings have walked on red carpets with him since the separation. Maddox and Pax also stopped using the last name Pitt years ago.
A source close to Brad assured that, for years, “Angelina told and repeated the same lies about Brad, and the reality is that she alienated the children.” This parental alienation was pointed out as a sad consequence that deeply affected the actor. “He cared about all of them. It was devastating”he added.
On the other hand, Angelina Jolie He repeatedly expressed his close bond with his children, describing maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, Knox and Vivienne as “the closest people to me in my life”. He also admitted: “We had to heal. There were things we needed to heal from.”, referring to the emotional difficulties that the family faced.
In case of Shiloh, however, seemed to be more critical. His decision to request the removal of the surname Pitt highlighted the unhealed wounds of a prolonged legal and emotional battle. Although no additional legal action was planned against his father, the name change request underscored the distant relationship between them.
Paxthe second of the six children, expressed in an Instagram post that He and his younger brothers “trembled with fear” in the presence of his father.
With this new request from the first biological daughter of the failed marriage, attention focused on whether her younger siblings, Knox and Viviennethey would follow the same path when they turned 18 in July 2026.
