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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nBrad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s daughter Shiloh reportedly filed to remove Pitt from her surname in May.\u00a0(Getty Images)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Over the weekend, reports circulated that Shiloh took out an advertisement in the Los Angeles Times to share the name change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“The media should be more careful in their reporting,” Peter Levine said in a statement obtained by Fox News Digital, “especially when covering a young adult who has made an independent and significant decision following painful events, and is merely following legal process.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Shiloh Jolie did not take out an \u2018ad\u2019 announcing any name change, and any press reporting that is inaccurate. As Shiloh\u2019s attorney, I am required to publish a legal notice because the law in California requires that of anyone who wants to change their name. That legal notice was published in the \u2018Los Angeles Times,\u2019 as is required.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Following the announcement in May, a source close to Pitt shared the actor’s dismay regarding his daughter’s legal action. “He\u2019s aware and upset that Shiloh dropped his last name. He\u2019s never felt more joy than when she was born. He always wanted a daughter,” the insider told People magazine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “The reminders that he\u2019s lost his children, is of course not easy for Brad. He loves his children and misses them. It\u2019s very sad,” they continued. “He\u2019s still happy with Ines [de Ramon],” the source said of Pitt’s girlfriend, but the separation from his six children “pains him.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pitt and Jolie have been locked in a contentious custody battle since Jolie filed to divorce Pitt in 2016, with the couple being declared single in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2022, the actress was re-granted sole physical custody of her minor children (which included Shiloh at the time), after Pitt had been granted joint custody for a short period of time. Pitt was then allowed “custodial time” with his minor children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Two of Pitt’s other daughters \u2014 Vivienne and Zahara \u2014 have seemingly dropped Pitt from their last name in professional and personal settings. People also confirmed in May that Vivienne Jolie-Pitt’s name was printed as solely Vivienne Jolie in a playbill for “The Outsiders,” which she worked on with her mother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Zahara previously identified herself as “Zahara Marley Jolie” in a video obtained by Essence, when joining her sorority at Spelman College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Representatives for Pitt, Jolie and Shiloh did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Actor Brad Pitt has long been the subject of child abuse allegations following his split with Angelina Jolie,…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6067","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-musician"},"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/artgardenhub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-50.png\")
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