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Entertainment · 16 July 2026

Brad Pitt's older kids Zahara and Maddox use newspaper ads to drop his surname

Brad Pitt's older kids Zahara and Maddox use newspaper ads to drop his surname

Harald Krichel via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA-4.0)

Brad Pitt's older children, Zahara, 21, and Maddox, 24, have formally filed to remove 'Pitt' from their last name. They issued announcements of their plans in the Los Angeles Daily Journal, as mandated by California law. This follows Angelina Jolie's 2016 divorce filing, where she alleged Brad was physically abusive.

Reported by Metro.co.uk · How we write briefs

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