Once upon a time in Hollywood, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s son Maddox filed to legally drop the actor’s last name.
The 24-year-old made the request on Thursday, according to the Daily Mail, and listed his reasoning as “personal.”
If the change is granted, his name will be Maddox Chivan Jolie instead of Maddox Chivan Jolie-Pitt.
Reps for Pitt and Jolie did not immediately respond to Page Six’s requests for comment.
A source told us that “it’s not a surprise this news was released shortly after” our Wednesday reporting that Pitt scored a “significant evidentiary victory” in his and Jolie’s ongoing Château Miraval legal battle.
Maddox, notably, informally ditched his dad’s surname in February credits for his work on Jolie’s most recent movie.
He worked as an assistant director on “Couture” and, per People, was listed at the time as Maddox Jolie.
Two years prior, he was credited as Maddox Jolie-Pitt for his work as executive producer on “Maria.”
Maddox’s decision to take the legal route comes on the heels of his 20-year-old sibling, Shiloh, doing the same.
When Shiloh turned 18 in May 2024, the teenager filed to drop Pitt — and the request was granted three months later.
Shiloh’s move symbolized not just “a name change” but a “deeper estrangement that has been brewing for years” — and left Pitt “devastated,” a source told Us Weekly in June 2024.
The insider, however, insisted he was “not ready to give up” on Shiloh, Maddox and the rest of their siblings — Pax, 22, Zahara, 21, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 17.
The outlet reported the following year that Pitt “periodically” sees his youngest two children but has “strained” relationships with the rest of his brood.
The kids have repeatedly made headlines for not using the “F1” star’s last name for graduations, Broadway Playbills, sorority initiations and more.
Pitt and Jolie called it quits in 2016 after 12 years together, becoming legally single in 2019.
When their contentious divorce battle was settled in December 2024, Pitt told GQ it wasn’t “that major of a thing” but “just something coming to fruition.”
He has been in a relationship with jewelry designer Ines de Ramon since 2022.
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