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Zahara Jolie-Pitt, the eldest daughter of exes Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, is following in the footsteps of her siblings and looking to legally drop her estranged dad\u2019s surname from her own.<\/p>\n

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So long as no one objects to the bid by the 21-year-old newly minted college graduate, who filed last month to legally go by Zahara Marley Jolie, a judge can approve the move during a Sept. 28 hearing, TMZ reports.<\/p>\n

First, Zahara \u2014 who\u2019s already informally dropped the Pitt \u2014 had to publish notice of her petition in the Los Angeles Daily Journal for four consecutive weeks, which ended July 7. The notices, in accordance with California legislation, alerted those against the name change to submit a written opposition ahead of said hearing.<\/p>\n

Zahara\u2019s 20-year-old sister Shiloh, the exes\u2019 eldest biological child, filed to remove Pitt\u2019s name from hers upon turning 18 in May 2024. By that point, both eldest sibling Maddox and Zahara \u2014 both adopted by Jolie in the early 2000s, and later by Pitt \u2014 had also stopped using Pitt as part of their moniker, as had Vivienne, one of Jolie and Pitt\u2019s biological twins.<\/p>\n

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Maddox, 24, formally filed to drop Pitt from his last name in late May 2026 and, if approved, will go by Maddox Chivan Jolie, per Us Weekly at the time.<\/p>\n

A Pitt insider told TMZ his circle believes Jolie, 51, is behind the tensions with the 62-year-old \u201cF1\u201d star and their children.<\/p>\n

The Pitt-Jolie divorce was a contentious one that settled in late 2024, after eight long years. The Oscar winners \u2014 who also share 22-year-old adoptive son Pax as well as Vivienne\u2019s fraternal twin brother Knox, 17 \u2014 remain locked in a legal battle over their French winery.<\/p>\n

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Zahara Jolie-Pitt ran an ad in a Los Angeles newspaper as part of a petition to remove adoptive father Brad Pitt’s surname from hers, joining several of her siblings who’ve already done so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-things-to-do"],"yoast_head":"\nZahara Jolie-Pitt takes out ad to announce she\u2019s dropping Brad\u2019s surname - Next City Digest<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=4442\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Zahara Jolie-Pitt takes out ad to announce she\u2019s dropping Brad\u2019s surname - 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