Why Did Maddox Change His Final Title From Brad Pitt’s? 

One other of Brad Pitt‘s kids has dropped his final identify. Maddox, Pitt’s eldest youngster with ex-wife Angelina Jolie, eliminated Pitt from his final identify within the credit of his mother’s new film, Couture, on which he served as an assistant director.

The movie stars Angelina as an American movie director identified with breast most cancers simply as she arrives in France to movie a video for a Paris style present. Ultimately credit, Maddox’s identify was listed as Maddox Jolie as a substitute of Maddox Jolie-Pitt. The manufacturing notes supplied by journalists on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant in September 2025 additionally listed Maddox’s identify as Maddox Jolie.

The change is a shift from Maddox’s credit score in Angelina’s 2024 Netflix film, Maria, during which she performed late opera singer Maria Callas. Within the credit of the movie, which Maddox labored as a manufacturing assistant for, Maddox was credited together with his father’s final identify as Maddox Jolie-Pitt.

Maddox, 24, is Jolie and Pitt’s eldest youngster. His siblings embody Pax, 22, Shiloh, 19, and 17-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne. Maddox isn’t the primary of Brad’s kids to distance themselves from him. In a Playbill for the Broadway musical The Outsiders in Might 2024, which Vivienne helped Angelina produce, the dual was credited as Vivienne Jolie, as a substitute of Vivienne Jolie-Pitt.

In August of that very same 12 months, Essence additionally shared a video of Zahara introducing herself as, “My identify is Zahara Marley Jolie. And [I] landed all the way in which from the Golden State within the metropolis stuffed with angels: Los Angeles, California.” That very same month, information broke that Shiloh, who was born as Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, had legally modified her identify to Shiloh Jolie after she turned 18 and reached the authorized age to take action. On the time, Shiloh’s legal professional stated that Shiloh’s identify change was a part of “an unbiased and vital determination following painful occasions.”

“He’s conscious that Shiloh dropped his final identify,” a supply advised Individuals on the time of Brad’s emotions towards Shiloh’s authorized identify change. “The reminders that he’s misplaced his kids, is in fact not straightforward for Brad. He loves his kids and misses them.”

A supply additionally advised Us Weekly in 2024 that Brad sees the modifications as “greater than a reputation change.” “It was an emblem of a deeper estrangement that has been brewing for years,” the insider stated, with one other supply claiming that Brad was “discovering it extraordinarily troublesome to return to phrases with” the identify change. The primary supply additionally added that Brad was “devastated” by the change.