The youngest daughter of Hollywood actors Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie has entered the final step to officially remove her father's surname.
U.S. entertainment outlet Page Six reported on the 21st (local time) that Pitt and Jolie's daughter VIVIEN placed a notice in the newspaper to officially remove her father's surname.
According to the report, VIVIEN ran a notice of her name change petition in the Los Angeles Daily Journal once a week for four consecutive weeks. VIVIEN placed the notice from July 24 to Aug. 14, and the notice said that anyone who opposed the name change should submit a written objection before the final hearing.
VIVIEN's next hearing is scheduled for Nov. 2, and if no one files an objection, a judge can approve the name change petition. Publishing a notice publicly in a newspaper is one of the procedures required for a legal name change in California.
Earlier, VIVIEN filed a legal petition last month to remove "Pitt" from her surname. In court documents obtained by Page Six, VIVIEN requested that her name be changed from VIVIEN Marceline Jolie-Pitt to VIVIEN Marcelin Jolie. She cited "personal reasons" as the reason for the change.
When VIVIEN previously worked with Angelina Jolie on adapting the Broadway musical "The Outsiders" in 2024, she also did not use her father Pitt's surname and was listed on the Playbill as "VIVIEN Jolie."
VIVIEN is following the same course after several siblings already took legal steps to remove "Pitt" from their surnames. Pitt and Jolie have six children in total, and after Shiloh officially became the first to remove their father's surname, Maddox and Zahara have been pursuing legal procedures.
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt met through the film "Mr. & Mrs. Smith," maintained a relationship for a long time and married, but they separated in 2016. After extended legal battles, the divorce was finalized in Dec. 2024.
Earlier this month in an interview with Esquire, Pitt admitted about family issues, "The pain was so overwhelming that (though I didn't actually act on it) I could feel the cold metal of a bullet in my head, and it felt like a relief."
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