Shiloh Jolie-Pitt, the 18-year-old biological daughter of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, legally changed her name to Shiloh Nouvel Jolie, dropping her father's surname "Pitt." A petition filed on her 18th birthday in May was approved Monday. A legal notice was published in the Los Angeles Times as required.
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt share six children: Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, Knox and Vivienne. Maddox, Zahara, and Pax, are adopted, while Shiloh, Knox, and Vivienne are biological children. The couple's contentious divorce filing from 2016, has not been finalized due to ongoing legal battles over custody, business interests, and allegations of physical altercation and abuse from Jolie's side.
Pitt's relationship with some of his children, including Zahara, Shiloh, Pax, and Vivienne, is strained, and the four have publicly distanced themselves from the actor by dropping his last name.
Vivienne dropped "Pitt" from her name in credits for a musical produced by Jolie, and Zahara changed her name to "Zahara Marley Jolie" during a sorority induction ceremony.
Jolie accused Pitt of abuse, leading to their estrangement and contentious divorce proceedings, including a "bifurcated judgment" granted in 2019 and ongoing legal battles over their French winery property. Jolie alleged that Pitt choked one of their children during a private flight in 2016, though Pitt was investigated and cleared of the accusation.
Shiloh is a dancer and has appeared in small roles in her parents' movies. Her brother Pax was injured in an e-bike accident in July, and Shiloh has been helping him along with other siblings and their mother.
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