Vivienne Jolie filed a legal notice to drop Pitt from her last name. The request puts the 18-year-old’s name change into the public record and moves it toward judicial review in California.
On July 12, Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt filed paperwork asking to remove Pitt from her last name, citing “personal” reasons. By August 14, she had completed California’s required four-week newspaper publication process, the step that typically comes before a judge can act on a legal name-change petition.
The Outsiders credit
Vivienne had already appeared publicly as Vivienne Jolie in the Playbill for Broadway’s The Outsiders, where she helped produce the Tony Award-winning production alongside her mom. That credit made the filing easier to read as a formal cleanup of a name she had already been using in another public setting.
The petition also follows a pattern within Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s family. Shiloh legally requested to drop Pitt from her name when she turned 18 in May 2024, Zahara requested the change in April, Maddox did the same in May, and Knox used the name Knox Jolie on his high school diploma in June.
November 2 hearing
The hearing on Vivienne’s petition is scheduled for November 2. In practice, that date is the point at which the court can decide whether the published notice and paperwork satisfy California’s name-change requirements, turning a private preference into a legal result.
Vivienne is still listed as Jolie-Pitt in the filing even as she seeks to remove Pitt from her last name, and that is the story’s sharpest contradiction: the public document uses the old name to retire the old name. The next real answer is not another headline, but whether the court grants the change after the November 2 hearing.
