Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s daughter Shiloh took it upon herself to legally drop her father’s last name from her own surname when turning 18 last week. “Shiloh hired her own lawyer and paid for it herself,” an insider about Shiloh’s move to legally petition the Los Angels County Superior court to change her name from “Shiloh Jolie-Pitt” to just “Shiloh Jolie.” A source close to the matter that Shiloh’s move was in part motivated by her mother’s allegations related to her father’s “abuse history.
” In Jolie and Pitt’s contentious, drawn-out divorce, the “Maleficent” star has alleged that Pitt was physically abusive to her before and during an infamous 2016 private plane ride from Europe that prompted her to file for divorce. Shiloh, an aspiring dancer, filed legal documents to drop Pitt from her last name on May 27, her 18th birthday, People reported. Shiloh is the fourth-eldest of the former Hollywood power couple’s six children, and the eldest of their three biological children.
The couple also share Maddox, 22, Pax, 20, Zahara, 19, and 15-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne. Shiloh’s 2006 birth in Swakopmund, Namibia, was a high-profile event that In the past year, two of Shiloh’s siblings also have publicly dropped Pitt from their surnames, though Shiloh is the first to do it officially. In a video shared by Essence magazine in 2023, Zahara can be seen and heard when introducing herself as a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority at Spe.
