Shiloh Jolie-Pitt, the daughter of actors Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, has taken legal action to distance herself from her father â at least in name.
Shiloh rang in her 18th birthday Monday by filing a petition in Los Angeles County Superior Court to drop the âPittâ from her full name. The teen, whose full name is currently Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, wants her name to be âShiloh Nouvel Jolie,â according to the petition reviewed by The Times.
A representative for Jolie did not immediately respond to The Timesâ request for comment. A representative for Pitt did not comment on the petition.
Shiloh was born on May 27, 2006 in Swakopmund, Namibia. She is the third-eldest of the former Hollywood power coupleâs six children, and the eldest of their three biological children. They also share kids Maddox, Pax, Zahara and twins Knox and Vivienne.
The âKung Fu Panda 3â voice actor requested to change her name amid her parentsâ contentious, drawn-out divorce. In September 2016, Jolie filed to divorce her âMr. and Mrs. Smithâ co-star days after they allegedly had a physical altercation on a private plane flight home from Europe. Several of the actorsâ children were also allegedly involved in the incident, according to an FBI report. Details about the 2016 confrontation emerged in a 2022 lawsuit Jolie filed against the federal law enforcement agency.
Complicating settlement of Jolie and Pittâs years-long divorce is more legal tension over their Chateau Miraval winery and former family home. In February 2022, Pitt sued Jolie and her company, Nouvel, for allegedly selling her share of their winery, without his supposedly agreed-upon consent, to âseize profits she had not earned and returns on an investment she did not make.â
Jolie fired back with a cross-complaint in October 2022. Earlier this year, her legal team filed a motion to acquire Pittâs communications stemming from an âall encompassingâ nondisclosure agreement allegedly connected to the sale.
Jolie and Pitt have been legally unmarried â a.k.a. single â since 2019 but have yet to finalize details of their divorce.
Shiloh may be the first Jolie-Pitt child to take her name change to court, but some of her siblings have also publicly dropped their fatherâs last name in recent years. In a video shared by Essence in 2023, Zahara can be seen and heard introducing herself as a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority at Spelman College. âMy name is Zahara Marley Jolie,â she shouts in between poses.
Additionally, 15-year-old Vivienne dropped âPittâ in her Playbill credit for the new musical âThe Outsiders,â which her mother produced, People reported this week.
Times staff writer Nardine Saad contributed to this report.