Another of Brad Pitt‘s children has dropped his last name. Maddox, Pitt’s eldest child with ex-wife Angelina Jolie, removed Pitt from his last name in the credits of his mom’s new movie, Couture, on which he served as an assistant director.
The film stars Angelina as an American film director diagnosed with breast cancer just as she arrives in France to film a video for a Paris fashion show. In the end credits, Maddox’s name was listed as Maddox Jolie instead of Maddox Jolie-Pitt. The production notes provided by journalists at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2025 also listed Maddox’s name as Maddox Jolie.
The change is a shift from Maddox’s credit in Angelina’s 2024 Netflix movie, Maria, in which she played late opera singer Maria Callas. In the credits of the film, which Maddox worked as a production assistant for, Maddox was credited with his father’s last name as Maddox Jolie-Pitt.
Maddox, 24, is Jolie and Pitt’s eldest child. His siblings include Pax, 22, Shiloh, 19, and 17-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne. Maddox isn’t the first of Brad’s children to distance themselves from him. In a Playbill for the Broadway musical The Outsiders in May 2024, which Vivienne helped Angelina produce, the twin was credited as Vivienne Jolie, instead of Vivienne Jolie-Pitt.
In August of that same year, Essence also shared a video of Zahara introducing herself as, “My name is Zahara Marley Jolie. And [I] landed all the way from the Golden State in the city full of angels: Los Angeles, California.” That same month, news broke that Shiloh, who was born as Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, had legally changed her name to Shiloh Jolie after she turned 18 and reached the legal age to do so. At the time, Shiloh’s attorney said that Shiloh’s name change was part of “an independent and significant decision following painful events.”
“He’s aware that Shiloh dropped his last name,” a source told People at the time of Brad’s feelings toward Shiloh’s legal name change. “The reminders that he’s lost his children, is of course not easy for Brad. He loves his children and misses them.”
A source also told Us Weekly in 2024 that Brad sees the changes as “more than a name change.” “It was a symbol of a deeper estrangement that has been brewing for years,” the insider said, with another source claiming that Brad was “finding it extremely difficult to come to terms with” the name change. The first source also added that Brad was “devastated” by the change.
