Another Jolie-Pitt Child Drops Their Father’s Surname

Vivienne Jolie-Pitt has seemingly dropped her father, Brad Pitt‘s final identify, and has now chosen to solely use “Jolie” from her mom, Angelina Jolie.

The change was seen within the playbill for “The Outsiders,” but it surely’s not clear if it is official. The surname drop comes after years of a strained relationship between Pitt and his youngsters amid his divorce from Jolie.

Vivienne’s identify change comes after her elder sister, Zahara, additionally selected to cease utilizing her father’s identify.

In accordance with People magazine, Jolie and Pitt’s daughter, Vivienne’s identify change was seen within the playbill for her mom’s musical and manufacturing debut, “The Outsiders.”

In it, the 15-year-old is listed as “Vivienne Jolie,” which might have beforehand been “Vivienne Jolie-Pitt.”

Regardless of the change within the playbill, it is not confirmed if Vivienne has legally modified her surname. {The teenager} is the newest of Jolie and Pitt’s six youngsters to modify to utilizing solely their mom’s identify as a surname in recent times.

The previous couple’s eldest daughter, Zahara, additionally makes use of solely “Jolie” for her surname. In a viral video of Zahara becoming a member of the Mu Pi chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority at Spelman Faculty final 12 months, she launched herself as “Zahara Marley Jolie.”

The playbill for “The Outsiders” lists Vivienne as a producer assistant and mentions her in Jolie’s bio. It reads, “Angelina is thrilled to be engaged on her first theatrical producing enterprise alongside her daughter, Vivienne, who’s a theatre pupil and supporter of the humanities.”

Jolie introduced that she was producing “The Outsiders” final 12 months and has credited Vivienne as her inspiration for the mission.

When the musical had its opening night time in April 2024, the “Salt” actress had excessive reward for her daughter.

She stated, “She noticed an early workshop a couple of instances after which invited me to it. Viv is a younger artist who focuses her efforts on her assist of others. She has been there to help in any approach she will be able to and has discovered a lot from [score and co-book writer] Justin Levine and the entire artistic group.”

Given the years of pressure of their relationship with Pitt, Vivienne and Zahara’s choice to vary their surname isn’t surprising.

The strained relationship between Pitt and his youngsters has been famous since Jolie filed for divorce and requested sole bodily custody of all six youngsters in 2016.

Pitt has since tried to reconcile along with his youngsters, however progress is reportedly gradual. In August 2022, a supply near the “Babylon” actor advised People that he was engaged on having a greater relationship with the children.

The supply stated, “It has been a tragic state of affairs for years. Since Angelina filed for divorce, Brad has been targeted on having the perfect relationship potential along with his youngsters. It has been very tough for him. Many instances, there have been lengthy gaps the place he did not see the children in any respect.”

The insider defined that Pitt usually “misses the children” in the course of the stretch of time when he has no contact with them. They added, “He believes there will probably be a time when he has a fantastic relationship along with his youngsters once more.”

As Vivienne joins the record of youngsters eradicating “Pitt” from their surname, there are studies that Jolie is a driving drive behind the tense parental relationship.

A safety guard who used to work for the previous couple and is presently working for Pitt has claimed that the actress inspired the children to “keep away from” their father.

The guard’s claims have been included in court docket paperwork obtained by Folks. Pitt and Jolie are presently in court docket over their French vineyard, Château Miraval.

The actress not too long ago claimed that Pitt refused to purchase her shares within the vineyard except she agreed to a brand new and “extra onerous” NDA. In accordance with a movement beforehand filed by Jolie’s attorneys, Pitt needed his ex-wife to signal the NDA to guard himself and sure data.

The “Eternals” actress’ attorneys declare that Pitt is fearful that sealed paperwork from their earlier custody battle might grow to be public with out the NDA.

The ex-couple has been locked in a authorized battle over their previously joint-ran French vineyard since Pitt accused Jolie of betraying him by promoting her $64 million stakes to Russian billionaire Yuri Shefler in 2021.

In a latest Los Angeles Superior Courtroom ruling, Decide Lia Martin known as on the actress to “produce, inside 60 calendar days of this Order, all non-privileged paperwork in her possession, custody or management which are aware of” Pitt’s requests in a beforehand filed motion.

A supply near the actress has now claimed that the “Combat Membership” actor is utilizing the court docket case to get again at her after a choose ordered Jolie to supply eight years’ value of NDAs.

The supply shared that Pitt “and his group know that these NDAs are by no means going to see the sunshine of day at trial,” including that their entire antics “is all for the press.”

“Additionally they know that this may drive Angelina to spend assets monitoring all of this data down, which is simply one other technique to drain her assets and punish her for leaving,” the insider advised People.