Shiloh Jolie paid for her own lawyer to drop Pitt surname – with mom Angelina Jolie blamed for worsening teen’s rift with Brad

Brad Pitt’s daughter Shiloh hired and paid her own lawyer when she filed to drop the Pitt name on her 18th birthday.

Family sources confirm that Shiloh, who turned 18 on May 27, was in the driver’s seat when it came to dropping “Pitt” from her last name “Jolie Pitt.”

A source close to the case said: ‘Shiloh hired her own lawyer and paid for it herself, so Angie doesn’t know and can’t speak for it.

“But if you’re asking if this is related to the history of abuse or the violation of the rights of Shiloh’s victims, yes, that’s part of it.”

Documents to change Shiloh’s name were filed Monday when she turned 18 — the first time she could do so on her own.

The revelation, which Shiloh paid for himself, suggests that the ugly feud between former couple Brad Pitt, 60, and Angelina Jolie, 48, could still continue in the form of legal action against the six children the couple once shared.

Last month there were suggestions in supermarket magazines that Shiloh was planning to move in with her father as soon as possible. And other stories suggested that film star Pitt was ‘hopeful’ to reconcile with her now that she is an adult.

In reality, however, there appears to be no prospect of him reconciling with his children following an infamous and controversial private jet confrontation in 2016.

In an FBI report on the incident published in 2022, Jolie accused Pitt of physical assault while flying to California.

She accused her ex of grabbing her by the head and shoulders and shaking her as she screamed, “You are destroying this family.”

Shiloh is pictured with her father, brothers Pax and Maddox, as well as Brad’s parents Jane and William Pitt at a December 2014 film premiere in Los Angeles.

The report also accused Brad of punching the plane ceiling four times, snapping at his children and pouring beer on Angelina.

Brad was also accused of assaulting one of the couple’s children on the plane, but was later cleared of wrongdoing by the LAPD.

There have been long custody battles that ultimately ended in a victory for Pitt, who was awarded 50-50 custody in 2021, but it was overturned on appeal.

He has had a judge intervene to tell Angelina that she cannot listen in on his cell phone conversations with the children. The judge also ordered “reunification therapy” for Pitt and the children.

The actor set up a skate park for Shiloh in his home, and more recently an art studio to reflect their shared interest in art.

He has sent cars and security to take the children from her home to his whenever there is an assigned custody visit. Unfortunately, none of this has brought them closer together.

Angelina Jolie, pictured in April 2024, is blamed for widening the rift between her daughter and ex-husband

Son Pax said in an Instagram post in 2016 that all four youngest children — including Shiloh — “tremble in fear in his presence.” The two eldest already refused to see him at that time.

The current situation makes the kids – Maddox, 22, Pax, 20, Zahara, 19, Shiloh 18, and Knox and Vivienne, 15 – a tight-knit gang of seven with his ex-wife.

Last year, Jolie called them “the people closest to me in my life, and they are my good friends.” We had to heal. There are things we needed to heal from.”

Although Shiloh has repeatedly walked the red carpet with her famous actress mother, neither she nor her siblings have done the same for Brad. He will often say how proud he is of Shiloh – but the feeling is clearly not mutual.

“This is the result of textbook parental alienation, and it is a great sadness in his life,” I am told. “There have been years and years of (Angelina) telling and retelling the same lies about (Brad), and the reality is she has alienated the kids, and the reality is it upsets Brad. He cares about them all. It’s devastating.’

Being a father was extremely important to him. He could now start a family with his serious girlfriend Ines de Ramon, who now lives with him. She is 31, he is 60.

Shiloh, a creative soul who went by the name John for many years, is studying dance. At the 2022 premiere of his film Bullet Train, Brad said of her performance: “It brings tears to the eyes, yes. I’m Mr. Two-Left Feet here.’ Despite all that pride, and despite years of custody visits, there is only rejection.

Zahara, a student at Spelman College, Atlanta, no longer uses the name Pitt. Vivienne worked with Angelina this spring on a musical, The Outsiders in New York and is referred to simply as ‘Vivienne Jolie’ in the program. Maddox and Pax are openly antipathetic towards their father, having not used the name Pitt for years. It looks like it’s been completely cut out.