Zahara, 21, and Maddox, 24, did something few celebrity children dare to do in public: they published legal notices for four consecutive weeks in the Los Angeles Daily Journal, as required by California law, to officially change their surname from Jolie-Pitt to Jolie.
She requested to be called Zahara Marley Jolie. He, Maddox Chivan Jolie. Their hearings were scheduled for September 14 and 28 in Los Angeles, and they are not taking this step alone: their sister Shiloh had already done the same in 2025, just after turning 18, paying for her own lawyer.
With them, three of the six children Brad Pitt had with Angelina Jolie have now decided to keep only their mother’s surname. A source close to the family says that the actor now has ‘virtually no contact’ with them.
