BRAD Pitt’s estranged son Maddox has dropped the actor’s surname for his credit on his new film with mum Angelina Jolie.
Maddox, 24, served as the production assistant on Angelina’s critically acclaimed 2024 Maria Callas biopic and is now an assistant director of her latest feature, Couture.
For the first time, he’s been credited as Maddox Jolie rather than Maddox Jolie-Pitt.
The new flick sees Angelina play the lead role of Maxine, an American film director diagnosed with breast cancer before jetting to France to shoot the film that will open Paris Fashion Week.
Brad and ex-wife Angelina, 48, have six kids — they adopted Maddox, Pax, 22, and Zahara, 21, and also have their biological children Shiloh, 19, and 17-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne.
Maddox isn’t the first child to ditch the Pitt name.
Shiloh made the same decision in 2024. The legal forms were published in the LA Times for a month before a judge finalised the move as per California law.
Brad was reported to have been upset by the name change.
A source told People: “He’s aware and upset that Shiloh dropped his last name. 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.”
The same year Vivienne only used her mother’s name when she was credited as a producer on Broadway musical Playbill for The Outsiders.
While Zahara presented herself as ‘Zahara Marley Jolie’ at her introduction to the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority at Spellman College in 2023, this despite Brad describing her enrolment at the college as “really beautiful” months earlier.
The Once Upon a Time in Hollywood actor’s marriage to Angelina came to an end in 2016 after an explosive row in front of their kids on a private jet. Brad allegedly clashed with Maddox on the same flight.
As the bitter divorce rumbled on, it became clear the kids were on their mum’s side.
An insider told The Sun: “As far as Maddox, Pax and Zahara go, the word is that they are totally in support of their mother and Brad doesn’t hear from them these days at all — certainly not the boys, and it’s been that way for a very long time.”
The source suggested Brad still had contact with his biological kids, Shiloh, Knox and Vivienne.
They said: “He still sees Shiloh and the twins whenever he can, though not as often as he would like.”
The multi-millionaire fought a long, bitter and expensive battle to try to gain equal custody rights with Angelina.
And in May 2021, a judge ruled he could jointly share access.
But just a few months later that was overturned following an appeal by Jolie on the grounds that the judge had financial connections to Brad’s legal team.
None of that stopped Brad from seeing the children under supervision, which he had to book in advance.
Following the break-up, Brad joined Alcoholics Anonymous and he has spoken about drinking too heavily for much of his life.
Pax’s private Instagram post in 2020 on Father’s Day suggested the kids experienced problems before and beyond the plane incident.
He wrote: “You time and time and again prove yourself to be a terrible and despicable person.
“You have no consideration or empathy toward your four youngest children who tremble in fear when in your presence.
“You will never understand the damage you have done to my family because you’re incapable of doing so.”