Another of Brad Pitt's Children Makes Move to Legally Change Last Name
Another member of Brad Pittand Angelina Jolie's family is reportedly taking steps to leave the "Pitt" name behind.
According to court documents obtained by TMZ, the former couple's daughter Zahara has filed a petition to legally change her name from Zahara Marley Jolie-Pitt to Zahara Marley Jolie. The petition was reportedly filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on June 4, though Zahara signed the paperwork back on April 28.
The move comes just weeks after the 21-year-old celebrated a major milestone of her own. On May 17, Zahara graduated from Spelman College in Atlanta with a Bachelor of Arts in psychology. During the commencement ceremony, she was introduced using only her mother's surname.
While Zahara has not publicly commented on the decision, she isn't the first of her siblings to distance themselves from the Jolie-Pitt hyphenation.
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Her younger sister, Shiloh, was the first to legally petitioned to remove "Pitt" from her surname shortly after turning 18 in 2024. More recently, reports surfaced that Zahara's older brother Maddox had also moved to legally drop Pitt from his name, too. Although Maddox has not publicly addressed the decision, he had already begun using Jolie professionally, including in his assistant director credit on Angelina's 2025 film Couture.
The latest development comes nearly a decade after Jolie filed for divorce from Pitt in 2016. Jolie, 51, and Pitt, 62, share six children together: Maddox, 24, Pax, 22, Zahara, 21, Shiloh, 19, and 17-year-old twins Vivienne and Knox.
The family has largely remained private about the the split, though Angelina previously offered a rare glimpse into its impact last fall. In a declaration filed in October 2025 as part of the former couple's ongoing legal battle over Château Miraval, Angelina wrote, "The events leading to my need to separate from my ex-husband were emotionally difficult for me and our children."
She went on to explain that neither she nor the couple's six children had returned to the French estate since filing for divorce in 2016, adding, "To this day, the children and I have never again set foot on the property, given its connection to the painful events leading to the divorce.
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This story was originally published June 9, 2026 at 4:54 PM.