This year has been huge for Angelina Jolie and her children. Knox and Vivienne turned 18 years old, which marked the official end of Angelina and Brad Pitt’s custodial fight/situation. The twins also graduated from high school, and Zahara graduated from Spelman. Alongside all of those milestones, Zahara and Maddox both filed their own name-change petitions around the same time. Both Z and Maddox are doing the same thing Shiloh did when she turned 18 years old: dropping “Pitt” from their surname and solely using “Jolie.” Well, as soon as Vivienne turned 18 in July, she also filed to change her name. Vivienne’s petition seems to be moving through the system pretty quickly, because she already published her name-change announcements in a newspaper.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s daughter Vivienne has taken the next step toward dropping “Pitt” from her name. According to Los Angeles County Superior Court documents obtained by PEOPLE, the 18-year-old — one of six children Pitt, 62, and Jolie, 51 share — now has proof of publication, confirming her intent to change her name.

Vivienne published a legal notice in the Los Angeles Daily Journal that she intends to change her name from “Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt” to “Vivienne Marcheline Jolie,” a required step in California law. Vivienne’s legal notice was published on July 24, July 31, Aug. 7 and Aug. 14, according to court documents.

The request has not yet been granted. Next steps include a court hearing, set for Nov. 2, to further discuss Vivienne’s petition. Court documents regarding Vivienne’s proof of publication noted that any person who objects to the name change “must file a written objection that includes the reason for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard.” That person or persons must also appear in person at the court hearing.

Vivienne filed the initial petition requesting that her legal name be changed from “Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt” to “Vivienne Marcheline Jolie” in Los Angeles County Superior Court on July 21, per court documents obtained by PEOPLE at the time. Vivienne listed the reason for the name change as “personal” in those court documents.

Her newspaper ad also comes roughly one month after her siblings Zahara, 21, and Maddox, 25, filed the same notice to drop “Pitt” from their names and published similar notices in the L.A. Daily Journal in order to comply with California law. Zahara’s hearing regarding her name change petition is scheduled for Sept. 28, while Maddox’s hearing is scheduled for Sept. 14. Zahara dropped her father’s last name while walking across the stage at her graduation from Spelman College on May 17, 2026. She was listed as “Zahara Marley Jolie-Pitt” on the commencement program, but her name was read as “Zahara Marley Jolie” when she walked across the stage.

“This is the result of a prolonged campaign of alienation of children against their parent,” a source close to Pitt told PEOPLE in July 2026. “It’s an incredibly sad reality, but it’s not surprising after years of one parent weaponizing the children against the other one with no regard for the consequences.”

[From People]

That last quote was the reason why I wanted to talk about this. Maddox, Zahara and Vivienne’s name-change stuff has been coming out in drips and drabs for months, and every time one of the kids made one of these moves, “sources close to Brad” would inevitably say something huffy about parental alienation. The problem right now is that Brad admitted in his Esquire cover profile that he’s been off the wagon for years, and that he’s back to drinking in a “professional” way. Sources close to Brad also said something about how his alcoholic relapse is okay because he has “discipline and self-awareness.” All of that is why Vivienne’s name-change publication has a different energy. Now we know, from Brad’s own drunk mouth, that he hasn’t been sober in years. This was never about parental alienation, it was about an alcoholic father’s children wanting absolutely nothing to do with him, especially given that he can’t even stay sober.

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