Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s daughter, Vivienne, is credited as “Vivienne Jolie” for her function as an assistant and coproducer of Broadway’s The Outsiders.
Us Weekly can verify that the playbill for The Outsiders: A New Musical credited Vivienne, 15, along with her mom’s maiden identify, versus the hyphenated surname “Jolie-Pitt” shared by her 5 siblings (and her mom, at one level): Maddox, 22, Pax, 20, Zahara, 19, Shiloh, 17, and Knox, 15. It’s not clear if Vivienne has legally modified her identify.
Jolie, 48, and Vivienne attended the purple carpet of The Outsiders’ Broadway debut on April 11. “She’s been a extremely robust assistant,” Jolie stated of her daughter on the time. “She takes it very, very critically.” (It was introduced in August 2023 that The Outsiders musical would head to Broadway with Jolie main the manufacturing staff.)
This isn’t the primary time one among Brangelina’s brood has dropped the “Pitt” moniker from their final identify. Final November, Vivienne’s older sister Zahara launched herself as “Zahara Marley Jolie” when becoming a member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority at Spelman School. (Jolie maintains main custody over her and 60-year-old Pitt’s three minor kids, Shiloh in addition to twins Vivienne and Knox.)
Vivienne’s identify change comes after claims from Pitt’s safety guard, Tony Webb, that Jolie was encouraging her kids to shun their father throughout custody visits, in keeping with courtroom paperwork obtained by Us. Webb claims {that a} former worker, Ross Foster, allegedly informed him “about statements he overheard that Ms. Jolie made to the youngsters, encouraging them to keep away from spending time with Mr. Pitt throughout custody visits.”
Pitt and Jolie have been embroiled in a tumultuous authorized battle over their divorce, custody of their kids and possession over their French vineyard, Chateau Miraval. The couple tied the knot in 2014 however cut up two years later and their divorce has but to be finalized.
A supply solely informed Us in March that, after years of litigating the main points of their divorce, Jolie and Pitt are one step nearer to ending the method. “The negotiation course of was agonizing, however the monetary docs have been filed within the final couple of weeks,” the supply informed Us. “Brad simply needs to maneuver on together with his life, and this closing step symbolizes aid and a definitive finish to their relationship.”
A second insider famous that whereas Pitt has visitation rights together with his kids, “it’s disappointing that he doesn’t see the youngsters” as usually as he’d like. “He needs their relationship was stronger and desires to work on that,” the insider defined.