Jolie and Pitt’s daughter Shiloh seeks name change
Actor Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt has petitioned a Los Angeles court to remove “Pitt” from her name. On May 27, her 18th birthday, the daughter of Hollywood stars Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt filed to legally become Shiloh Jolie.
Angelina Jolie initiated divorce proceedings against Brad Pitt in September 2016, but their separation remains unresolved, with a settlement yet to be reached. The couple is also embroiled in a legal dispute over Chateau Miraval, a French winery they co-own.
Shiloh, the third-eldest of their six children, is not the first sibling to distance themselves from the Pitt surname. Earlier this year, her 15-year-old sister Vivienne dropped their father’s last name in a Playbill listing for a Broadway production of The Outsiders. Additionally, their eldest sister, Zahara, referred to herself as Zahara Marley Jolie in a 2023 video when joining the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority at Spelman College.
While Shiloh, who voiced a character in the animated film Kung Fu Panda 3, is the first to formally petition for a legal name change, this request arises amid ongoing developments in the contentious divorce proceedings between Jolie and Pitt, who married in August 2014.
Jolie filed for divorce after an incident in 2016, in which she says Pitt grabbed her by the head and attacked two of their children on an airplane.
Pitt also verbally abused and poured alcohol on his family during the flight from France to Los Angeles, she says.
He denies the allegations.
The pair were engaged in a custody battle that resulted in Pitt being awarded joint custody in 2021.
Both actors have also filed lawsuits against each other.
Disagreements between the two include property disputes and shared business ventures, including Château Miraval.
In February 2022, Pitt sued Jolie and her company, Nouvel, for allegedly selling her share of the winery without his supposedly agreed-upon consent.
Legal documents claimed that Jolie “sought to inflict harm” on her former husband when she sold her stake in their co-owned vineyard to a Russian oligarch.
On 4 April 2024, Angelina Jolie’s legal team filed a motion requesting communication be released, saying it would “prove” Pitt would not allow her to sell her shares in Château Miraval to him unless she agreed to an “expansive” non-disclosure agreement.
Pitt is being countersued over claims that millions of dollars of Château Miraval funding were used for personal projects.
