Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's daughter, Zahara, has taken out a notice in a newspaper in order to officially drop his surname, it has been claimed.
20:15, 13 Jul 2026
Zahara Marley Jolie-Pitt has made the decision to officially remove dad Brad Pitt’s surname, it has been claimed.
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The Fight Club actor shares six children with ex-wife Angelina Jolie - including Zahara, Maddox, Pax, Shiloh, and twins Knox and Vivienne. In the years following their split, many of their brood have dropped his last name, instead going by “Jolie”.
Zahara, 21, has submitted paperwork requesting an official name change - weeks after older brother Maddox did the same. The pair have now published notices sharing their separate petitions for their names to be changed in a local newspaper, as per California law, which states that notices have to run in four issues.
USA Today reports that Zahara's petition was printed in the Los Angeles Daily Journal in issues between June 16 and July 7. A judge can officially approve the request at her upcoming hearing on September 28, if there are no objections.
Before the official petition, she had dropped Pitt in favour of Jolie, and was referred to as Zahara Marley Jolie at her university commencement at Spelman College in May.
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A number of her siblings had also made the move to distance themselves from their father. Shiloh completed the same petition in 2024, while Maddox has requested to legally be named Maddox Chivan Jolie - his hearing will take place on September 14.
Vivienne was billed as Vivienne Jolie in the official playbill for her work on the Broadway production of the Outsiders in 2024, while Knox chose to go by Knox Jolie on his diploma from Fusion Academy.
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Brad and Angelina first started dating after meeting on the set of Mr and Mrs Smith in 2004 - they went public shortly after his separation from ex-wife Jennifer Aniston.
The pair walked down the aisle in 2014 two years after getting engaged, but it wasn’t to last and they announced their split in 2016. They were legally declared single in 2019.
While the Ocean’s Eleven star has publicly moved on with his new girlfriend, Ines de Ramon, Angelina has remained single, and focusing on her family.
"To be candid, I haven't dated since I divorced a decade ago. So I get in my head that that aspect of me is not centred in my life if I'm focusing on my children, my family,” she recently told Yahoo Entertainment of her dating life.
However, she added that, while she felt “broken” by life, she is now learning to “live again” after her 51st birthday.
"Things are changing, but in a way I didn't expect. It doesn't feel like I'm 51 and starting to think of being older. I'm thinking I have to live again. Be free again," she concluded. "In a way that maybe life has broken me a little bit."
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