Highlights
- Vivienne Jolie-Pitt, 18, filed to legally drop ‘Pitt,’ completing the required public notice this month.
- A Los Angeles judge is set to decide November 2 whether she legally becomes Vivienne Marcheline
- She joins siblings Shiloh, Zahara, and Maddox, all of whom have filed to remove Pitt from their names.
Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt, 18, wants one thing this fall: her father’s name gone. According to newly obtained court documents, she’s petitioning to drop “Pitt” and become, simply, Vivienne Marcheline Jolie.
The reason listed on the filing is a single word: “personal.” Which, for a family that’s spent a decade litigating everything from custody to a French winery, might be the most restrained statement anyone’s made yet.
This isn’t exactly a plot twist. Vivienne has already been going by “Vivienne Jolie” professionally, credited in the 2024 Playbill for Broadway’s The Outsiders, produced by her mother, where she was described as “a theatre student and supporter of the arts.” Angelina Jolie, for her part, has long compared her youngest daughter to her own late mother, saying “Viv reminds me of my mother” in temperament.
Now Vivienne joins a very crowded exit. Shiloh started the surname purge back in 2024. Zahara and Maddox filed this summer, with hearings set for September. That’s five of six Jolie-Pitt kids formally shedding dad’s name.
Team Brad isn’t staying quiet about it. A source close to the actor told PEOPLE the moves reflect “a prolonged campaign of alienation of children against their parent.”
Team Angelina, unsurprisingly, tells a gentler story. A source close to Jolie told E! News simply, “She just wants everyone to heal.” Another insider argued the kids’ silence proves their character, insisting people would feel differently “if they knew the whole truth.”
Vivienne’s notice ran in the Los Angeles Daily Journal from July 24 through August 14, satisfying California’s public-notice requirement. A judge is now scheduled to rule on November 2.
Until then, the paperwork is public, the sources are dueling, and the Pitt surname keeps getting smaller by the season. The Playbill, it turns out, may have known first.
