Last week, on her 18th birthday, Shiloh Jolie-Pitt filed to change her legal name to Shiloh Jolie. She apparently hired a lawyer on her own accord and paid for the legal fees herself, without her mother’s input or assistance. An insider just told Us Weekly that Shiloh’s choice to remove “Pitt” from her surname is “connected to the abuse history. That’s part of it.” I would imagine that Brad Pitt’s reaction to Shiloh’s name change reinforced her desire for a name change too – Brad’s team ran to People Magazine and announced that Brad is “aware and upset” about Shiloh’s filing, and then the Pitt insider said: “He’s never felt more joy than when she was born. He always wanted a daughter.” Brad was already a father to a daughter before Shiloh was born: he and Angelina had adopted Zahara the year before. Well, Entertainment Tonight gave Pitt’s team a chance to make a different statement and this is what Team Pitt chose:
Last week, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s daughter, Shiloh, filed a request to drop her famous father’s last name from her own. Now, the Oscar-winning actor, 60, is apparently having a hard time dealing with the emotional turbulence within his family.
A source tells ET, “Brad has always loved being a father and loves his children.”
“This situation is upsetting to him,” the source adds, “and he recognizes that things have been difficult for him and the whole family.”
On May 27, the day she turned 18, Shiloh filed a request with the court to allow her to drop her father’s surname from her own hyphenated surname, a source familiar with the matter told ET. The source added that the teen is requesting a new legal name, hoping to go by simply, “Shiloh Jolie,” as opposed to “Shiloh Jolie-Pitt.”
“Brad has made a tremendous effort to grow and learn from all of his experiences,” the source tells ET. “He would love to find a way to continue to do this, repair things with his kids, and for everyone to get to a better place.”
Shiloh is not the only one of Brad’s kids who has seemingly decided to stop using their father’s last name. Her younger sister, Vivienne, recently co-produced the Broadway production of The Outsiders, alongside her famous mom, and was credited as “Vivienne Jolie.” Additionally, Zahara recently joined the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, and during an introduction ceremony event, she introduced herself as “Zahara Marley Jolie.”
As always, beware of the passive voice. “He recognizes that things have been difficult for him and the whole family.” HE is the one causing all of the “difficulty.” He terrorized Angelina and the children on that plane in 2016. He repeatedly assaulted Angelina in the air and on the ground. He strangled one of his kids and struck another. Sidenote: this isn’t the first time I’ve posited this theory, but I honestly believe Pitt was blackout drunk on the plane and he truly doesn’t remember his violence. It’s not an excuse, but it would explain why his story has changed so many times and how he’s never understood why there was no coming back from it. Beyond that, his abuse of the kids and Angelina has extended past the 2016 plane terror. His team can talk until they’re blue in the face about how “Brad has made a tremendous effort to grow and learn” but the kids have shown for years that they’ve seen him without his mask and they want nothing to do with him.
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- Brad Pitt during Blonde red carpet. 79th Venice International Film Festival, Italy – 08 Sep 2022,Image: 720717029, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: Maria Laura Antonelli / AGF Foto / Avalon
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- Brad Pitt during Blonde red carpet. 79th Venice International Film Festival, Italy – 08 Sep 2022,Image: 720717161, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: Maria Laura Antonelli / AGF Foto / Avalon
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- Brad Pitt during Blonde red carpet. 79th Venice International Film Festival, Italy – 08 Sep 2022,Image: 720717485, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: Maria Laura Antonelli / AGF Foto / Avalon
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- Brad Pitt during Blonde premiere, 79th Venice International Film Festival, Italy – 08 Sep 2022,Image: 720931966, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: Mirco Toniolo / AGF Foto / Avalon
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- Rome, ITALY – Angelina Jolie and her daughter Shiloh Jolie-Pitt enjoy ‘mommy-daughter time’ at the Maneskin concert for the world premiere of the “Loud Kids Tour” at the “Circo Massimo” in Rome, Italy. Pictured: Angelina Jolie – Shiloh Jolie-Pitt BACKGRID USA 9 JULY 2022 BYLINE MUST READ: Cobra Team / BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- Rome, ITALY – Angelina Jolie and her daughter Shiloh Jolie-Pitt enjoy ‘mommy-daughter time’ at the Maneskin concert for the world premiere of the “Loud Kids Tour” at the “Circo Massimo” in Rome, Italy. Pictured: Angelina Jolie – Shiloh Jolie-Pitt BACKGRID USA 9 JULY 2022 BYLINE MUST READ: Cobra Team / BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- Rome, ITALY – Angelina Jolie and her daughter Shiloh Jolie-Pitt enjoy ‘mommy-daughter time’ at the Maneskin concert for the world premiere of the “Loud Kids Tour” at the “Circo Massimo” in Rome, Italy. Pictured: Angelina Jolie – Shiloh Jolie-Pitt BACKGRID USA 9 JULY 2022 BYLINE MUST READ: Cobra Team / BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- Rome, ITALY – Angelina Jolie and her daughter Shiloh Jolie-Pitt attend the Maneskin’s concert for the world premiere of the “Loud Kids Tour” at the “Circo Massimo” in Rome, Italy. Pictured: Angelina Jolie, Shiloh Jolie-Pitt BACKGRID USA 10 JULY 2022 BYLINE MUST READ: Cobra Team / BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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He’s had 8 years to work on himself and those relationships. Instead he has spent much of that time attacking and suing the kids’ mother.
Exactly! 💯
Attacking their mum over perceived slights on the winery isn’t literally showing “tremendous efforts to change and grow”, rather the opposite!
So sad that people would rather condemn another’s actions than realize we are all subject to making bad choices; ,’What one of us is capable of, we are all capable of.’
Mostly Brad was suing over visitation. The judge even told Angie if she didn’t stop from preventing him from seeing his kids, she was going to lose custody. Why even put this news out there. Why say it was Shiloh’s money and her.own lawyer. It’s seems the private information leaked was meant to be especially hurtful to Brad. It’s been years since the divorce. Years that Brad had been.clean. By continuing this public drama, Angie is hurting her kids. Enough already.
It’s not private information but rather public record. TMZ monitors filings.
The winery dispute and visitation are 2 different things. Angelina isn’t the one who can’t shut up about all of this.
Interesting that no comment about Zahara and Vivienne not using Pitt. Is Shiloh the golden child or is just because she made it legal?
I think because she made it legal and according to Brad his ‘first’ daughter.
And Shiloh looks the most like her mom. He’s obsessed with AJ. He could care less about the adopted kids. This is what hurts him, his biological daughter “rejecting” him. I hope by doing this she is able to heal and move on. I can’t imagine what those kids have been subjected to after the plane incident.
So they DID adopt Z before they had Shiloh! I noticed it when he said something about her being the daughter he always wanted and was like wow, if he’d already adopted his other daughter by then, WOW. That says it all.
And also? Too soon. Speaking as someone whose parents had a ten-year divorce, it takes a solid ten years after that for anyone to want to be around each other again. Like check in with your kids when they start having THEIR kids, and you might have a shot. With a lot of apologies.
The adopted Z a whole year before Shiloh was born.
There was an article in the past about Brad seeking visitation with his bio children, excluding adopted ones and his bio children rejected him after that demand. To me, it also feels like he is someone who would choose a golden child and harm the siblings’ relationship. Fortunately, the children didn’t let him play that game.
This article does not mention why the kids, in this case only naming the girls, have been dropping BP’s surname. It’s a gentle version of his story, not necessarily what is going on.
Because Shiloh is the one he’s always been obsessed with. She’s the one who looks the most like Angelina – their birthdays are even days apart. I called it awhile back – the man has a weird fixation on Shiloh. Hence the weird story his team put out about her coming to live with him – which was an obvious lie. I don’t think he’s seen any of those kids since they were old enough to say they no longer wanted to see him (which in custody issues is usually 14 or 15 years old)
This is so true. “Shiloh’s so smart. Shiloh is daddy’s little girl. Shiloh wants the fighting to stop” Sir you have 5 other kids! I don’t believe for a second it’s just tabs making things up. Someone is pushing those stories.
Its doable at 12 years of age in California but remember that Brad was only able to see the kids with supervision for a very long time so he just DIDN’T in my opinion. He had to do drug/alcohol testing 24 hours before visitation and I also think that impacted how much he actually saw his kids. I think when he did visit he had no idea how to relate to them given he really hadn’t engaged with therapy as he claimed.
The special master could have suspended visitation for any or all of the kids depending on the psychologists recommendation.
Why dont they have cameras on airplanes? People are always acting a fool on planes.
Private, chartered jets for celebrities and business tycoons have different privacy considerations. Those folks, in particular, do not want their behavior and voices recorded for any number of (usually legitimate) reasons and privacy fears. Unlike the typical flyer, there’s a literal market and high offering prices for security footage of private, intimate, or privileged celebrity and business conversations/behavior.
And that’s before you get to actual, unsavory behavior and conversations, illegality, substance abuse, intimate behavior, and, sadly, yes verbal and physical abuse.
But that’s the long and short of why those folks wouldn’t rent a charter with cameras, let alone cameras actually running.
Commercial flights, not private. And if AJ or the kids had picked up a camera to film him can you imagine how much worse it would have gotten?
If he had learned and grown he wouldn’t have children actively changing last names.
Exactly.
He’d love to fix it, he says. He could stop financially abusing their mother, to begin.
He could stop with this “brads hurting too” victimhood.
He could stop parading around how he’s found love with his new girlfriend.
I do wonder if he sold the property he had that was close because of a restraining order.
He can’t stop financially abusing their mother. Getting the sale overturned is his only hope at blocking the new owners from uncovering all his financial misdeeds with Miraval. I think that’s what that lawsuit is actually about.
There’s a reason she hired a flipping attorney as soon as she legally was able to in order to change her name. This was not done lightly.
Shiloh was so smart to hire a lawyer.
A name change may be a simple process.
But with an abusive father, with money & so many on his side & power, she was smart to have a lawyer lined up to issue any statements & deal with it all.
She’s been through enough.
Whatever, Brad.
Seriously. It’s been eight years. That’s plenty of time to rehab yourself and put the work in to repair the relationships. At this point, it’s obvious that he chose not to put in the work.
Sure, it’s the “things” that have been difficult, not he himself. I don’t know who is advising him, but maybe they should suggest he stop talking.
He and his “team” are just going to keep digging that hole they’re in. Then they’ll get back to abusing Angelina.
When my ex husband and I were going through our divorce his lawyer told him to tread softly. Children do not like having their mom screwed over especially if they are tight with their mom (which we ate). Don’t roll over but don’t go for the juggler if you want to have a relationship with tour kids.
These continual legal attacks are making their relationship worse.
The passive voice just screamed off the page, so glad you mentioned it.
There is zero in any of that statement to indicate any acceptance of responsibility or any way in which he acknowledges his actions (then and now) are what caused his entire family to distance themselves from him.
The whole “he would love to find a way to … ” section rang so many bells for me RE stuff that went on with my own father, who pulled similar stuff with my mom and us 6 kids, with his local celebrity, minions, resources (vs Brad’s international). The mysterious always elusive “way” was a simple “admit you acted like an AH, apologize, and stop being a ragey self-centered jerk”. Sometimes said directly and clearly to his face. Oh, and “call off your flying monkeys”.
But no, he could NEVER do that. He just wanted the image of fawning children around him (sometimes, for photo ops and press write ups, like pawns and props … but only those of us who that day were looking good, or were succeeding at something he could bask in and co-opt). But not actual relationships with actual people he had any accountability for or whose needs, feelings, care he had to give a thought to.
He was too selfish and entitled for that.
We see you, Brad.
No amount of PR shine can polish the ish you’re putting out.
It’s bullsh*t.
It’s slightly better bullsh*t than the People response but still bullsh*t nonetheless.
And I agree about him being blackout. He does not remember.
No one steals a staircar while being of sound mind.
Well, just my 2cents here to Brad and his people, maybe stop smearing the mother of your children in the press at every given chance????? It doesn’t take a scientist, for god’s sake.
What an awful man, he’s just good at throwing himself pity-parties. Instead of even trying to repair the relationship with his kids he just paraded his latest fling and abused his ex in the press, what about this is ‘trying’?
He is now bullying the kids too. Unhinged.
In all this mess, Goop turned out the smartest. She dated, married a decent guy, divorced and moved on. Emphasis on decent, Martin is bland, but not problematic.
What dose Goop have to do with anything and why even bring her up?
@Erica — because she was romantically involved with him but bailed. She dodged a bullet for sure.
@Jaded
OK but why bring up Goop when they dated almost 30 years ago.
@Erica I think it’s because he was actually engaged to Gwyneth. The next famous person he dated was Aniston. Who he then went on to marry. So Gwyneth was the one who dodged a bullet by not marrying him. And I agree.
Brad has made a tremendous effort to grow does not mean he grew at at all. But he wants points for trying. All while leaking negative things about his children’s mother for the past few years.
He seems to have grown nastier.
Seems that way.
Christ, what an assh*le 🙄
He can put whatever BS statement he wants to fool strangers because that’s all he’s doing is fooling strangers. Those kids know the real him. I too think he was blacked out drunk raging like a madman however the fact that he still almost a decade later, FBI involvement, supervised visitation and counseling he still refuses to take accept full responsibility for why his adult and minor children hates him.
It sucks that respect for the boundaries a young person in the public eye sets with an abusive parent seems to be selective. Neither the man who raised Jennette Mccurdy nor her actual father were smeared as manipulative, nobody cried parental alienation, and nobody said those men had BPD, NPD, or was a sociopath. This is the hell reserved for women people don’t like coming forward with evidence that men they do like (or at least have a more sympathetic view of) abused them. Some of those same people also like to talk about female self-respect and everyone’s need to distance themselves from abusers, but can’t even accept a young person choosing to distance herself from the father who assaulted her mother and siblings. The excuses being made for Brad and the hoops that are being jumped through to make Angelina the villain are truly pathetic.
Actually Brad, the kids are THRIVING WITHOUT you in their lives. So, no difficulties there.
BUT YOU GO ON AND DO YOU. Paid pap strolls with Ines (who BTW looks bored with you in every pic), filming your race car movie (overblown budget I hear?) and other bullsh*t PR antics. Father’s Day is just around the corner…I wonder if we’ll see another social media post from one of your kids, you know the kind that Pax unveiled to the world a couple of years back…telling the world that you are family terrorizing prick.
Pitt doesn’t have a family. They’ve disowned him (well, I don’t know about Knox). He’s still claiming to be a father when he’s clearly never been that. Move on bp publicists.
I wonder how much do the kids know of the financial abuse their mom has had to deal with?
I think that being the responsible adult Angie probably spared them that.
Brad gave Angie 8 million as a down payment on her current home even before any settlement. He was also paying child support. She owned half the French estate. She was just to give him first option to buy her out and she broke the contract. How is she being financially abused ???
He did not give her the money, he loaned it to her when she needed to purchase another home to escape him, and according to her attorney, he is charging her interest. It’s also well documented that she gave him multiple chances to buy her portion of the winery, but he would only agree if she signed an NDA.
Brad charged Angie interest for the 8 million dollar down payment. For the house that Angie bought so their kids could still live near Brad.
Angie was forced to borrow from Brad, because he wouldn’t let her sell her share of Miraval.
Brad should have bought or given a house for their children. Least he could have done was not to charge Angie interest.
What does he expect when he’s using the court system to abuse his children’s mother?
They forgot to add that “he is happy with his gf”. Cause that seems to be the most important thing in his life. If he placed this much effort and dedication into repairing things with his kids as he is with regards to this, he would be in a different place now, but NO, his happiness first. I guess Ines is kinda like his daughter anyways with a disgusting age gap and all, so maybe that is why he is saying that. Looser.
God that is such a bad tux. It looks like a one-piece, zips-up-the-back tux you’d put on a corpse.
We remember when Jennifer Aniston said he was missing a “sensitivity chip”….that spoke volumes years ago.
Jennifer Anniston is probably so thankful that she did not waste her life with that man.
As a child, it is absolutely terrifying to experience your father in a drunken rage, especially when that rage is directed at you, your mom and your siblings. I wish nothing but happiness & peace for AJ & her children.
I wonder if she is letting go of her middle name, too, considering it was Brad’s narcissistic choice (after his favourite architect Jean Nouvel)
I don’t think he remembers what happened either. Even worst, he doesn’t want to remember. He’s one of those that wants to forget and act like it didn’t happened. “Oh that was so long along. Let’s move on” Zero accountability.
Amazing how much Bad Parent(s) Amnesia there is in the world…. Seem there is no cure also!
When I first read about this, I didn’t realize she had planned it to go down exactly on her 18th bday… amazing.
You’re reaping what you’ve sown, Brad!!
He humiliated Jennifer Aniston publicly how badly he wanted kids. Which then Jennifer Aniston had to publicly disclose years later in interviews she went through the mill on IVF and it didn’t happen for them.
Then he gets them, and he treats them like trash.
Enjoy the humiliation Bradster.
And 100% I believe he only cares about his bio kids. Otherwise, he and Jennifer would have adopted.
He wanted his own blood. Now blood is on his hands.
Did JA ever say she was interested in adoption? She and Justin talk a lot about wanting to start a family and it never happens. Just because someone is unable to have kids doesn’t mean they want to adopt . The reality is if bio kids were so important they could have used a sergeant in either case.
No, I think Pitt is more like the fathers who only see their kids as a connection to their mother. Meaning they only care about their kids if they are in a relationship with the mothers. The moment they are not then they don’t want to be involved with the kids’ lives any more. They will be happy to play step-dad or be a father to the new kids in their new relationship.
A great example of those types of fathers is Brian McKnight.
That’s a good point. Personally, I never thought Jennifer Aniston wanted kids. And was just trying to please Bradley to try. Maybe adoption or surrogacy was off the table for her too.
She dodged a bullet never having kids with him.
I also, think he is obsessed with Shiloh since she looks the most like Angelina and himself. He’s beyond narcissistic.
I don’t believe Pitt was unaware of his actions. An hours long flight + Angelina claimed she has seen him drink a whole bottle of vodka and still operate. Assaults happened throughout the flight and when they were leaving the tarmac. Angelina’s lawyers have said his physical abuse started long before 2016. He even said he put his hands on the kids. He remembers, he just hates her for leaving him.
He is 60 years old. I don’t know if he thinks he’s going to wait it out until the children reach out to him later on in life or what. In the meantime, dude you haven’t learned anything if you’re going to continue to make their mother’s life difficult. Just stop. He really needs to humble himself to his kids. And let them know that he is their father and will always be there for them, even if they don’t want a relationship with him right now. But the most important thing is, they need to see that he is dropping that lawsuit against their mother. You continue to make my mother’s life difficult, there will be no relationship now or in the future.
I think it’s horrible to even bring Jennifer Aniston’s name into the discussion. Brad and Angelina both treated her despicably .
@Happy idk why they brought Aniston in this because she didn’t belong in this discussion. She was a victim for a minute.
However when she allowed her friend to taunt innocent kids she was no longer one for me.’
When she dumped her own husband and tried to court Pitt by inviting him to her home and the bday party to make news and avenge herself against Jolie was just as distasteful.
Pitt the manipulative azzhat he is is now thing his kids don’t want not to do with him this is one reason