A new legal and emotional setback shook Brad Pitt's life. In the midst of the prolonged legal battle and the family estrangement that he maintains with Angelina Jolie, a third son of the former couple began legal proceedings to legally eliminate the surname “Pitt” from his name.

According to documents obtained and published by Page Six, this is 21-year-old Zahara, who requested that her name be Zahara Jolie instead of Zahara Jolie-Pitt.

The young woman has a court hearing scheduled for September 28 in which a judge will rule on the motion.

This request represents a hard blow for the Hollywood star, showing that the fracture with her older children seems irreversible.

The decision follows in the footsteps of her sister Shiloh, who in late May 2024 — upon turning 18 — filed a similar petition in Los Angeles Superior Court to adopt only her mother's last name, a process that included publishing the change in local California newspapers as required by law.

Likewise, Vivienne, another of the youngest daughters of the former marriage, had already chosen to stop publicly using her father's surname, appearing in the official credits of the Broadway musical “The Outsiders” simply as “Vivienne Jolie.”

Although on previous occasions sources close to the “Troya” actor assured that he was “deeply sad” about his children's decision to remove him from their lives, this new legal movement ratifies the systemic rejection of young people towards their father figure.

Since the controversial incident on a private plane in 2016, which triggered the divorce of the Hollywood couple, the relationship between Pitt and his six children (Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, Knox and Vivienne) has deteriorated continuously, consolidating a rift that today is firmly settled in court.