Vivienne Jolie has officially dropped Brad Pitt from her surname following a Los Angeles court approval, becoming the fourth of the former couple’s children to legally remove the actor’s last name after filing paperwork earlier this year.
Los Angeles Court Approves the Name Change Without Opposition
A judge in Los Angeles signed off on the formal request without any objections raised during the proceedings. The 18-year-old filed the necessary paperwork in July, shortly after celebrating her 18th birthday, moving from her birth name to the legal designation of Vivienne Marcheline Jolie.
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The legal process required specific public notices before a judge could issue a final ruling. With no opposing claims submitted to the court during that mandatory waiting window, the magistrate granted the formal update.
How Vivienne Follows Her Siblings in Dropping the Pitt Name
The youngest daughter is not the first sibling to step away from the hyphenated family title. Shiloh changed her name legally in 2024, while Maddox and Zahara completed their legal process this year. Public distancing from the surname had already begun in professional spaces; months before the court ruling, the theater program for the Broadway production The Outsiders listed her simply as Vivienne Jolie after she worked alongside her mother on the project.
The family includes six children in total shared by the former Hollywood couple: Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, and twins Vivienne and Knox.
The Long Legal History and Family Dynamic Behind the Split
The legal shift follows a lengthy family fracture that began when Angelina Jolie filed for divorce in 2016 after two years of marriage and a twelve-year relationship. Although an initial police investigation into an alleged altercation involving the children did not lead to criminal charges, the separation triggered years of protracted courtroom battles over financial assets and custody arrangements before their divorce reached a final legal conclusion in December 2024.
