Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt pushed her Vivienne Jolie legal name change forward when the four-week newspaper publication period ended on August 14. The filing asks to drop Pitt from her last name, and the request now moves to a November 2 hearing under California procedure.
July 12 filing
July 12 was the date Vivienne filed the legal paperwork seeking to remove Pitt from her last name, and the reason listed in the petition was personal. Under California law, that notice step comes before a judge can act, so the August 14 completion is the point at which the request cleared the public-publication requirement.
That sequence matters because the petition is no longer just a family statement or a credit-line change. It is now in the formal stage where a judge can review the request after the required publication period, which gives the filing legal weight beyond the name itself.
Vivienne Jolie in Playbill
Vivienne was previously credited as Vivienne Jolie in the Playbill for Broadway's The Outsiders, and she helped produce The Outsiders alongside her mom. That credit shows how the name has already appeared in a professional setting, which makes the legal paperwork track the public version of her identity more closely than a casual nickname would.
For readers watching the industry side of the story, the practical detail is simple: the petition has cleared publication and is waiting on the hearing date. The change is not automatic; the legal name still rests on the court process, not on the newspaper notice alone.
Knox Jolie and the siblings
Shiloh was the first of the former couple's children to legally request to drop Pitt from her name when she turned 18 in May 2024, followed by Zahara in April and Maddox in May. Knox has not taken legal steps to drop Pitt from his surname, even though he already used Knox Jolie on his high school diploma in June.
That split is the complication inside the larger pattern. Three siblings have already moved through legal filings, one has not, and Knox's diploma choice shows that the public-facing version of a name can move ahead of the court version. The November 2 hearing will tell whether Vivienne's request advances the same way the others did.
