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Brangelina’s 18-year-old daughter has dropped Pitt from her name, reports Jessica Barrett
IN THE DAYS running up to her 18th birthday, Shiloh Jolie-Pitt wasn’t just planning celebrations with her friends and family, she was also preparing legal paperwork. The dancer and actor, whose full name is Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, has now submitted a petition to a Los Angeles court to drop Pitt from her name, after apparently contemplating the change for some time.
The daughter of Hollywood stars Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt took the shock legal action to become simply ‘Shiloh Jolie’ on 27 May, the day she turned 18, becoming the latest of the Once Upon A Time In Hollywood star’s six children to officially distance themself from their father.
Shiloh follows in the footsteps of her sister Zahara and brothers Pax and Maddox, who have already reportedly dropped Pitt from their double-barrelled names, amid reports of strained relations between the children and their father since Angelina filed for divorce from Brad in September 2016. After seven long years, details of their divorce have still not been finalised and a settlement agreement is yet to be reached. In that time the children have grown up a lot, with just two of them still under 18 – 15-year-old twins Vivienne and Knox.
It was reported last month that Vivienne has also informally dropped Pitt from her name. The teenager has been credited simply as Vivienne Jolie for the Broadway musical The Outsiders, on which she has been working as her producer mother’s assistant. It is not immediately clear if she has actually legally changed her name or just wants to be known as Jolie for now.
Angelina herself has been open about what she says is the traumatic impact that Pitt’s alleged abusive behaviour has had on her and their family during the course of their two-year marriage (they were together for 12 years in total after falling in love while shooting Mr & Mrs Smith). In 2021, when asked if she had ever feared for the safety of her children when with Pitt, she replied, ‘Yes, for my family. My whole family.’ Pitt has denied her claims.
The first concerns about what was going on behind closed doors between the former golden couple known as Brangelina came in September 2016, when it emerged that Jolie had filed court documents that sparked an investigation into Pitt by the FBI. Following the now infamous private jet journey from France to LA, Jolie filed the court documents against her ex (although the FBI dropped the investigation and did not press any charges). In them Jolie, 49, claimed Pitt, 60, had been violent in front of and to her children and was drinking heavily. (Pitt is now sober after seeking help.)
This was, until recently, thought to be something of an isolated incident that had pushed Jolie to seek a shock separation, but more troubli
