Shiloh Jolie officially drops father Brad Pitt’s last name
Shiloh, the daughter of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, has been granted her request to legally change her name and officially be known as Shiloh Nouvel Jolie.
Though her legal name was previously Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, she filed a petition on her 18th birthday in May to remove her father’s surname.
The announcement was first made in the Los Angeles Times in July, as is practice under California law. Legislation in the state says an adult seeking to change their name must publish their order to show cause documents in a newspaper for four weeks in a row prior to their court date.
Shiloh’s legal hearing to officially drop the “Pitt” surname was held on Monday. Pitt, Angelina and Shiloh have not commented publicly on the name change.
Shiloh’s lawyer, Peter Levine, earlier told People magazine the 18-year-old decided to change her last name “following painful events.”
Levine did not elaborate, though Shiloh’s name change comes amid a fierce legal battle between her famous parents, with Angelina alleging Pitt was physically and mentally abusive to her and their children. The official reason for Shiloh’s name change has not been publicly disclosed.
Angelina and Pitt share six children: Maddox, 22, Pax, 20, Zahara, 19, Shiloh and twins Knox and Vivienne, 16.
Shiloh is not the only kid among the Jolie-Pitt bunch to publicly drop their father’s surname, though she is the only one to legally change it.
Last year, Zahara Marley Jolie-Pitt introduced herself as only Zahara Marley Jolie while celebrating her acceptance into the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority at Spelman College.
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Vivienne has also seemingly ceased using Pitt’s name publicly and was referred to as simply Vivienne Jolie in her
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