Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s daughter Shiloh officially drops Pitt from last name

The daughter of actors Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt appears to have officially dropped her father’s last name.

Shiloh Jolie, who submitted a petition to remove her father’s surname from hers in May, filed a decree Monday asking the court to officially recognize the change, according to court documents reviewed Tuesday by The Times. She will be legally known as Shiloh Nouvel Jolie instead of by her birth name, Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt.

famous father, is in fact part of a state legal procedure that helps screen disingenuous name changes.

Shiloh hired and paid her own lawyer to see the matter through, NBC News reported. The attorney, Peter Levine, previously told The Times that the media “should be more careful in their reporting, especially when covering a young adult who has made an independent and significant decision following painful events, and is merely following legal process.”