Brad Pitt’s daughter Vivienne has moved one step closer to legally dropping her famous father’s surname, as the estrangement between the Hollywood actor and his children continues.
The 18-year-old, who is the youngest daughter of Pitt, 62, and ex-wife Angelina Jolie, 51, filed a petition last month asking to change her name from Vivienne Jolie-Pitt to simply Vivienne Jolie.
She has now completed another required step by publishing a legal notice announcing the proposed change.
According to court documents obtained by TMZ, Vivienne’s petition has appeared in the Los Angeles Daily Journal once a week for four consecutive weeks, as required under California’s name-change procedure.
The notice also gives anyone wishing to oppose her request the opportunity to submit a written objection ahead of a final hearing.
No suggestion has been made that Pitt intends to challenge the application.
Vivienne’s latest move comes after years of signs that the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood actor’s relationship with several of the six children he shares with Jolie has deteriorated.
The former couple share: Maddox, 24, Pax, 22, Zahara, 21, Shiloh, 20, and 18-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne.
While the reasons behind each child’s decisions are their own, Vivienne is far from the first of the siblings to stop publicly using Pitt.
Her older sister Shiloh made the decision official in 2024, filing to legally become Shiloh Jolie on the day she turned 18.
At the time, a source previously told People that Pitt was ‘aware and upset’ by his daughter’s choice.
‘The reminders that he’s lost his children, is of course not easy for Brad,’ they claimed. ‘He loves his children and misses them. It’s very sad.’
Earlier this year, Zahara and Maddox also reportedly began the legal process of removing Pitt from their surnames.
Both had already been using Jolie publicly for some time.
Zahara memorably introduced herself as Zahara Marley Jolie during an Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority event in 2023 and continued to use the name when she graduated from university this year.