Brad Pitt’s daughter Shiloh hired and paid for her own attorney when she filed to have Pitt’s name removed on her 18th birthday.
Family sources confirm that Shiloh, who turned 18 on May 27, was in the driver’s seat when it came to dropping ‘Pitt’ from her last name ‘Jolie Pitt.’
A source close to the matter said: “Shiloh hired her own lawyer and paid for it herself, so Angie doesn’t know and can’t speak out about it.”
“But if you’re asking if this is related to Shiloh’s history of abuse or violation of victims’ rights, yes, that’s part of it.”
Shiloh Jolie, pictured in 2021, paid to have her last name changed from Shiloh Jolie-Pitt, as she continues her estrangement from her father Brad Pitt.
Paperwork to change Shiloh’s name was filed Monday when he turned 18, the first opportunity he had to do so independently.
The revelation that Shiloh paid herself suggests that the ugly feud between former couple Brad Pitt, 60, and Angelina Jolie, 48, may still continue in the form of legal action by their once six children. the couple shared.
Last month there were suggestions in supermarket magazines that Shiloh planned to move in with her father as soon as she could. And other stories suggested that movie star Pitt was “hoping” to reconcile with her now that she is an adult.
However, there really doesn’t seem to be any chance of him reconciling with his children following a notorious and controversial confrontation on a private jet in 2016.
In an FBI report on the incident released in 2022, Jolie accused Pitt of physical assault while flying to California.
She accused her ex of grabbing her head and shoulders and shaking her while shouting ‘You’re f***ing this family up.’
Shiloh is pictured with her father, brothers Pax and Maddox, as well as Brad’s parents, Jane and William Pitt, at a December 2014 film premiere in Los Angeles.
The report also saw Brad accused of hitting the roof of the plane four times, growling at his children and spilling beer on Angelina.
Brad was also accused of attacking one of the couple’s children on the plane, but was later cleared of any wrongdoing by Los Angeles police.
There have been lengthy custody battles that ultimately ended in a victory for Pitt, who won 50-50 custody in 2021 only to have it overturned on appeal.
A judge intervened to tell Angelina that she should not listen to her cell phone calls with the children. The judge also ordered “reunification therapy” for Pitt and the children.
The actor set up a skate park at his home for Shiloh and, more recently, an art studio to reflect their shared interest in art.
He has sent cars and security to transport the children from her home to his whenever there is an assigned custody visit. Unfortunately, none of that has brought them closer.
Angelina Jolie, pictured in April 2024, has been blamed for widening the rift between her daughter and ex-husband.
In fact, his son Pax said in an Instagram post in 2016 that the four youngest children, including Shiloh, “tremble in fear in his presence.” The two oldest at that moment already refused to see him.
The current situation has seen the children (Maddox, 22, Pax, 20, Zahara, 19, Shiloh 18, and Knox and Vivienne, 15) form a tight gang of seven with his ex-wife.
Last year Jolie called them “the closest people to me in my life and they are my closest friends.” We had to heal. There are things we needed to heal from.’
While Shiloh has repeatedly walked red carpets with her famous actress mother, neither she nor her siblings have done the same for Brad. He often says how proud he is of Shiloh, but clearly the feeling is not mutual.
“This is the result of textbook parental alienation, and it is a great sadness in your life,” they tell me. “They’ve spent years and years (Angelina) telling and retelling the same lies about (Brad) and the reality is that it has alienated the kids, and the reality is that it bothers Brad. He cares about all of them. It’s devastating.”
Being a father was very important to him. Now he could start a family with his serious girlfriend Inés de Ramón, who now lives with him. She is 31 years old, he is 60.
Shiloh, a creative soul who for a few years went by the name John, is a dance student. At the release of his film Bullet Train in 2022, Brad said of his achievement: “It makes me cry, yeah. I’m Mr. Two Left Feet. Yet despite all that pride, and despite years of custody visits, there is only rejection.
Zahara, a student at Spelman College, Atlanta, no longer uses the name Pitt. Vivienne has been working this spring with Angelina on a musical, The Outsiders in New York and in the show she is credited simply as ‘Vivienne Jolie’. Maddox and Pax openly dislike their father, having not used Pitt’s name for years. He looks like he’s been totally eliminated.