A Los Angeles judge signed off on Vivienne Jolie-Pitt’s request to legally change her name during a hearing on Nov. 2, Page Six reported. The 18-year-old is now Vivienne Marcheline Jolie in court records, having dropped the surname she shared with her father, Brad Pitt.
Judge Virginia Keeny approved the petition at the Stanley Mosk Courthouse after no objections were filed. Vivienne submitted the paperwork on July 20, just eight days after she and her twin brother, Knox, turned 18. According to Page Six, court documents listed her reason for removing “Pitt” simply as “personal.”
The Vivienne Jolie Name Change Details
The ruling formalizes a change that went public more than two years earlier. In May 2024, Vivienne was credited as “Vivienne Jolie” in the Playbill for the Broadway production of “The Outsiders,” a show she helped her mother, Angelina Jolie, produce.
The Nov. 2 court order makes that billing legally official, converting her full name from Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt to Vivienne Marcheline Jolie.
Siblings Who Have Made Similar Changes
Vivienne is the fourth of Jolie and Pitt’s six children to legally drop the Pitt surname, and the third to do so this year. Shiloh led the way, filing in May 2024 and receiving approval that August to become Shiloh Nouvel Jolie.
Maddox, 25, followed on Sept. 14, when a judge approved his new name, Maddox Chivan Jolie. Zahara, 21, got the same result two weeks later, legally becoming Zahara Marley Jolie, Page Six reported.
Knox reportedly went by “Knox Jolie” on his high school diploma in June, though he hasn’t been confirmed to have filed a legal name change petition.
What’s Next
No new court filings have been reported, and neither Jolie nor Pitt has publicly commented on the ruling. That leaves Knox and Pax, 22, as the only Jolie-Pitt children still legally carrying their father’s surname, at least based on the record so far.
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