On Friday, Belgium and Spain played in the FIFA World Cup quarterfinal at the SoFi Stadium in LA. Spain won, and the semis are now set (Spain vs. France and Argentina vs. England). Interestingly, Brad Pitt and Ines de Ramon are suddenly into soccer, and they attended the Spain-Belgium quarterfinal. They had VIP seats and Brad wore a USA t-shirt while Ines wore Spanish colors. None of Brad’s kids were there, at the game. There’s zero evidence that Brad has seen any of his kids at any point in many years. That’s unlikely to change, because his two youngest, Knox and Vivienne, both turned 18 years old on Sunday. This marks the complete end of whatever custody arrangement Angelina Jolie had with Brad.

When Knox Léon and Vivienne Marcheline were born in Nice, France on July 12, 2008, they were already two of the most famous babies in the world. Parents Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie sold their first photograph for about $14 million, a record amount at the time, which the then-couple placed with their Jolie-Pitt Foundation, a charitable organization dedicated to global humanitarian efforts.

Eighteen years later, those babies have come of age—a moment that marks the end of their childhood and brings the last image of the so-called “Brangelina babies” to a close: For the first time since Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt parted ways, all of their children are legal adults.

When Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie announced their divorce in September 2016, Knox and Vivienne were eight years old. It took over eight years for that parting to be finalized, with the legal end of the relationship coming in December, 2024. All the while, the former couple’s children grew up under a level of media scrutiny unprecedented even by Hollywood standards—but, according to Jolie, they’ve managed to remain “pretty great people” despite the pressure.

The twins’ coming of age also marks a turning point in their parents’ long separation: the issue of custody is now definitively behind them. That means Jolie, who told The Hollywood Reporter in 2024 that she was required to remain in Los Angeles as a stipulation of the parental agreement, is finally free to move about the globe. “I am here because I have to be here from a divorce, but as soon as they’re 18, I’ll be able to leave,” she said then. But when her nest empties, “I’ll spend a lot of time in Cambodia. I’ll spend time visiting my family members wherever they may be in the world.”

[From Vanity Fair]

Last month, Knox graduated from an LA high school and Brad was nowhere near the graduation. Brad was actually in Paris at the time, watching the Roland Garros women’s final. We later learned that Knox did not include “Pitt” on his high school diploma – he apparently uses the Jolie surname, the same as most of his siblings. I’ve heard rumors that Vivienne graduated from high school before Knox, and that Vivi is already working and spending time in New York. There are also rumors that Knox and Vivienne will soon file to drop “Pitt” from their legal names too. I wonder if we’ll hear anything about that this week, because Shiloh, Maddox and Zahara have already made those moves.

As for Angelina, she put her LA mansion on the market months ago, and it apparently has not sold yet. A source told the Daily Mail: “Angelina is smart, she knew it would take a while to sell the property even though it is gorgeous and legendary, because the housing market has slowed in Los Angeles, but it still is annoying.” Sources also claim that Angelina plans to leave the US with all of her kids, but I think that’s fake news. She plans to travel more, absolutely. I could even see her basing herself in New York permanently now. But I think the kids all have their own things going on and some of them are planning to be LA-based, which is fine.

Photos courtesy of Backgrid, Cover Images.