Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s daughter Shiloh drops the ‘Pitt’ in her name – National
Angelina Jolie And Brad PittThe daughter of Shiloh Jolie-Pitt publicly confirmed that she was dropping “Pitt” as her last name.
Shiloh first filed to change her name in May, when she turned 18, with a Los Angeles County court, changing her name from Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt to Shiloh Nouvel Jolie.
In recent weeks, Shiloh publicly announced her name change in the Los Angeles Times, as is the practice under California law. State law requires that an adult who wants to change their name must publish their order to show cause documents in a newspaper for four consecutive weeks before their hearing date.
Shiloh’s first review appeared in the LA Times on June 17.
In a statement to People magazine, Shiloh’s attorney, Peter Levine, said the 18-year-old decided to change her last name “as a result of painful events.”
Levine didn’t elaborate, though Shiloh’s name change comes amid a fierce legal battle between her famous parents, with Jolie alleging that Pitt was physically and mentally violent to her and their children. The official reason for Shiloh’s name change has not been publicly disclosed.
Levine described Shiloh as a “young adult who made an independent and important decision in the wake of painful events and is simply following the legal process.”
“Shiloh Jolie did not run an ‘advertisement’ announcing a name change or an inaccurate press report,” he said. “As Shiloh’s attorney, I am required to publish a legal notice as California law requires anyone seeking a name change to do so. That legal notice was published in the Los Angeles Times, as is required.”
A hearing for Shiloh’s name change is scheduled for July 29.
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Jolie filed for divorce from Pitt in 2016, although the exes continued to fight over the issue. Chateau Miraval Vineyard they once owned property together in the south of France.
Pitt first sued Jolie in 2022 after she sold her share of the wine estate to a Russian oligarch, rather than him.
Jolie filed a counter-complaintclaiming she sold her share of the estate after negotiations to sell it to Pitt fell through. He allegedly insisted that Jolie sign a “nondisclosure agreement that would have contractually prohibited her from speaking outside of court about Pitt’s physical and emotional abuse of her and their children.”
The allegations of abuse come from a 2016 theft now infamous in a private jet with their children. Maleficent The actor said a drunken Pitt grabbed her, shouted insults at her and strangled one of their children.
Days after the flight, Angelina Jolie filed for divorce. She has since said that Pitt’s abuse began “long before” the 2016 flight. The FBI investigated the alleged plane incident that year, but made no charges against Pitt.
Jolie and Pitt share six children: Maddox, 22, Pax, 20, Zahara, 19, Shiloh, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 16.
Shiloh is the only Jolie-Pitt child to legally request a name change, though others have since dropped “Pitt” when introducing themselves in public.
Last year, Zahara Marley Jolie-Pitt introduced herself as simply Zahara Marley Jolie while celebrating her acceptance into Spelman College’s Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.
Vivienne also apparently stopped using Pitt’s name publicly and was simply referred to as Vivienne Jolie in his co-producer credit on the Broadway musical’s program The foreigners. Jolie is also a producer of The foreigners.
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