Maddox Drops Pitt Surname in Heartbreaking Move

and 's adopted son Maddox Jolie-Pitt has officially filed to drop the actor's last name.

The Daily Mail can confirm that Maddox, 24, filed for the name change on Thursday listing his reason as 'personal.'

He is requesting to legally drop 'Pitt' from his surname, changing his full name to Maddox Chivan Jolie. 

Maddox in February, when he was listed in the end credits of his mother's movie, Couture, as Maddox Jolie, rather than Maddox Jolie-Pitt. 

In a heartbreaking blow to the Oscar winner, Maddox has joined several of his siblings in distancing themselves from the Pitt name, following sister Shiloh's, 20, legal name change. 

His other sisters Zahara, 21, and Vivienne, 17, have also informally dropped the name. 

The Daily Mail has reached out to Pitt's representatives for comment.  

Previously, on Jolie's biopic, Maria, about legendary opera singer Maria Callas, Maddox, who worked as a production assistant, was credited as Maddox Jolie-Pitt.

In addition to Maddox, Zahara, Shiloh and Vivienne, Jolie and Pitt also share Pax, 22, and Vivienne's twin Knox, 17.

Last year, Shiloh, who was born Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, legally changed her name to Shiloh Jolie shortly after turning 18.

At the time, in a statement shared with People, Shiloh's lawyer Peter Levine said she 'made an independent and significant decision following painful events,' adding that she was 'merely following legal process' when publishing notice of the change.

'Shiloh Jolie did not take out an "ad" announcing any name change, and any press reporting that is inaccurate,' Levine clarified, per People.

'As Shiloh's attorney, I am required to publish a legal notice because the law in California requires that of anyone who wants to change their name. That legal notice was published in the Los Angeles Times, as is required.'

One month after Shiloh filed to drop her father's last name, a source told People that Pitt's relationship with his older children remained strained.

'He has virtually no contact with the adult kids. His engagement with the younger kids is more limited in recent months because of his filming schedule,' the insider shared.

In May 2024, Vivienne was credited as Vivienne Jolie, not Vivienne Jolie-Pitt, on the playbill for The Outsiders, the Broadway musical.