Brad Pitt's decision to remove "Pitt" from daughter Shilo's last name is "more than a name change": sources

[Shiloh Jolie-Pitt, daughter of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt (soon to be just Shiloh Jolie if the court agrees), celebrates her 18th birthday and has hired her own lawyer and filed papers to legally remove "Pitt" from her last name. Shiloh, daughter of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, has hired her own lawyer and filed papers to remove "Pitt" from her last name, "Page Six" reports.

The magazine reported that the actor has "put on a brave face" since Shiloh's May 27 filing, but he sees it all as "a symbol of a deeper estrangement" and "more than a name change," sources said.

It was a decision that Jolie and Pitt had been "warming to for years" following their 2016 breakup, their first as a couple in 11 years, allegedly due to an argument on a plane. Jolie and Pitt began dating in 2005 after meeting on the set of Mr. and Mrs. Smith, and Shiloh was born the following year in 2006. Technically, they are still legally married, as their youngest twins, Knox and Vivienne (still a minor), and a custody agreement over their winery, Chateau Miraval, are still in divorce proceedings. Nevertheless, they were declared legally single in 2019, and Pitt is moving romantically with Ines de Ramon, whom he has been dating since November 2022.

Jolie and Pitt have six children together: Shiloh, Maddox, Zahara, Vivienne, and Knox and Pax, and it is unclear if they still use "Jolie-Pitt". The children's estrangement from him is something that another source said Pitt has been "very difficult to come to terms with," specifically this recent move by Shilo.

None of the six children have "much to do" with their father, but as a father, he is "not ready to give up on them." (This weekend is Father's Day in the U.S., which will no doubt be difficult for Pitt.)

"Page Six" reports that Pitt wants to "bond" with his six children, who were used "as weapons against Brad" and "pulled away" from Jolie during the divorce fiasco.

"It's not easy for Brad, of course, to be reminded of the loss of his children," a source told People. He loves and misses his children. All he can do is be the best father he can be," a source told Us Weekly. He loves his children dearly and always will."

According to a source who spoke to Us Weekly, the children "have struggled to forgive Brad and connect with him since the divorce. Their mother is the head of the family and has raised the children with love and selflessness." Once Brad left home, it was very hard for them to watch him go to war with her."

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As for the possibility of Jolie's involvement in keeping the children away from the pit, "He feels that the negative narrative Angelina presents to the children is a major obstacle to their efforts to reconnect." Because of Angelina's daily influence over the children, Brad feels it is nearly impossible to change their perceptions." However, another source countered, "To say that she is controlling the children is missing the point."

Pitt admitted his shortcomings as a parent in a 2017 interview with GQ, a year after his breakup with Jolie. He said, "Instead of really getting to know who fathers are and their own self-doubts and struggles. And then I went through a divorce, and I realized that keenly. I have to be more for them. I have to show them. And I wasn't good at that. "

Neither Jolie nor Pitt rarely speak directly about their divorce, but Jolie told Vogue last September that she and her children are still "healing" in the aftermath of her divorce from Pitt: "We're still finding our feet," she said.

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