Another Jolie-Pitt Child Files to Legally Drop Pitt Surname

Zahara Marley Jolie, 24, filed to formalize a name she had already been using informally since February, following sister Shiloh's legal name change nearly two years prior.

Zahara Marley Jolie filed a legal petition to drop the Pitt surname, according to a Page Six report dated May 29, 2026.
She had already dropped the name informally in February 2026, roughly three months before the legal filing.
Shiloh Jolie-Pitt filed a similar petition around her 18th birthday in 2024, making Zahara the second of the couple's children to take the legal step.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's divorce proceedings have been ongoing since their 2016 separation.
The couple has six children together; the name-change filings account for two of them.

Zahara Marley Jolie, 24, has filed a legal petition to formally drop the Pitt surname, Page Six reported on May 29, according to court records reviewed by the outlet.

Zahara had already been going by Jolie informally since at least February 2026, but the filing converts that informal preference into a legal change.

The move follows a near-identical filing by her younger sister Shiloh, who petitioned to remove Pitt from her name shortly after turning 18 in 2024 — a timeline that made the filing itself a news event.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie separated in September 2016. Divorce proceedings, complicated by a dispute over their French vineyard Château Miraval, have continued across multiple jurisdictions and remained unresolved as of publication.

Of the couple's six children, two have now filed legal name-change petitions. The other four have not, at least on the public record.