Angelina filed for divorce from Brad way back in 2016 following an alleged altercation on a private jet involving the couple and their six children.
For a quick reminder, Brad and Angelina started dating back in 2005 after meeting on the set of their movie Mr. & Mrs. Smith. They didn’t get married until August 2014, when they tied the knot in front of just 20 guests, including their six children: Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, and twins Vivienne and Knox.
Barely two years later, the marriage came crumbling down when Angelina filed for divorce on Sept. 19, 2016 — days after an alleged altercation on a private jet where Brad was accused of physically and verbally assaulting Angelina and Maddox, who was 15 years old at the time.
This brings us to Dec. 30, 2024, when the couple’s divorce battle finally concluded after eight years of intense legal fighting. Angelina’s lawyer, James Simon, said in a statement that the Oscar-winning actor is “exhausted” but “relieved” that “this one part is over.”
A divorce battle of this length is pretty unconventional, even by Hollywood standards. And while neither Brad nor Angelina have talked in great detail about the split, we do know that the legal dissolution of their marriage was complicated by the 2016 abuse allegations and several other factors relating to their shared assets and the custody of their children.
On Dec. 30, an inside source told People that the Maleficent star “doesn’t speak ill of [Brad] publicly or privately.” And now, a subsequent report has alleged that the couple’s six kids — who are now adults, apart from the 16-year-old twins — were rooting for their mom to publicly speak out throughout the ongoing divorce.
“They have wanted her to speak up for herself, to defend herself over these years,” an anonymous insider said of the children in a report published by People on Jan. 1. However, they suggested that Angelina found it important to choose privacy and look at the bigger picture, apparently reminding the kids to “focus on changing laws over telling public stories.”
Angelina has put a lot of time into campaigning for human rights, particularly with regard to children’s rights. In 2021, she published a book titled Know Your Rights and Claim Them, which is described as “a resource for children and young people to learn about their rights” to give them “the knowledge they need to protect themselves and others.”
It has been widely speculated that Brad’s relationship with his kids was left badly strained by his and Angelina’s split. He has not been seen with or spoken publicly about any of his children in years, and a source told People in July 2024 that he has “virtually no contact with the adult kids” — Maddox, 23, Pax, 21, Zahara, 19, and Shiloh, 18.
Though Brad and Angelina’s children are all very private, some of them have seemingly taken measures to publicly distance themselves from their father by dropping “Pitt” from their last names.
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“The reminders that he’s lost his children, is of course not easy for Brad. He loves his children and misses them. It’s very sad.”
We’ve had an update about how Brad Pitt apparently feels about the news that one of his daughters has filed to drop his last name — although it seems to have done more damage than good.
In case you missed it, it was widely reported last week that Brad and Angelina Jolie’s daughter, Shiloh, recently filed a request in court to legally change her last name from “Jolie-Pitt” to “Jolie.”
In addition to Shiloh, Brad and Angelina share five other children: Maddox, 22; Pax, 20; Zahara, 19; Knox, 15; and Vivienne, 15. And though Shiloh is the first to file legally, she certainly isn’t the only one of her siblings to have seemingly attempted to drop “Pitt” from their last name.
The girls’ apparent attempts to distance themselves from their father come after years of rumors that Brad’s relationship with his children was left strained over his and Angelina’s ongoing divorce. The split was believed to have been triggered by an alleged incident on a private jet involving the couple and their children, which took place five days before Angelina filed for divorce.
Neither Brad nor Angelina has publicly commented on Shiloh’s name-change filing, although a report now claims that her father is “aware and upset” by the move.
While it’s worth acknowledging that these quotes were provided anonymously, users online have expressed confusion over the claim that Shiloh’s birth overjoyed Brad because he “always wanted a daughter,” noting that he and Angelina adopted Zahara in 2005, before Shiloh was born.
According to a report from Entertainment Tonight, Angelina “can’t speak” on Shiloh’s name change because her daughter took the legal move into her own hands. However, she certainly knows a thing or two about it, having done the same thing more than 20 years ago.
That’s all we know for now. BuzzFeed has contacted Brad’s representatives for comment, and we’ll keep you updated on any further developments.
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