“Who’s Influencing Them?” – Four of Brad Pitt’s Kids Drop His Last Name

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**Patrick Bet-David** (0:15)
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, I believe, have six kids together, if I'm not mistaken, that have identified themselves based on public information. None of them's going to go. Yeah, they got six kids together. But four of them have officially taken all the necessary steps to drop the word Pitt from their last name.
Shiloh legally changed her name from Shiloh Jolie Pitt to Shiloh Jolie.
Zara changed her name, publicly used as name Zara Jolie. Maddox removed Pitt and uses Maddox Jolie professionally. And Vivienne recently filed a petition to also change her name to Vivienne Jolie. I wonder who's influencing them.
I wonder who's influencing them to hate their father. I wonder who's influencing them to not have any pride for their father, to keep their father's last name and keep their mother's last name. I mean, you hear a story like this, and I remember watching Original Sin, the movie with Antonio Banderas and Angelina Jolie. I don't know if you remember Original Sin. If you've ever seen the movie Original Sin, the movie, you know, I never thought Angelina was acting.
I thought she was just being. It's a very dark movie, by the way, if you watch Original Sin. And when you see the way she got in and she got Brad Pitt from, you know, Jennifer Aniston and then all of a sudden, now, all the kids are changing their names together. How long were they married? How long were they married? And how many years did the kids live with their father? Can you imagine, like, how long these guys were married? The two of them. They were married 12 years, okay? And two years married, 12 years together, 2005 to 2016 The six children, Maddox born 01, Pax 03, Zara 05, Shiloh 06, Knox and Vivian in 08, during their marriage, the children lived with both parents as a family during that time. After Jolie filed for divorce in 2016, and Jolie initially had primary custody. Pitt had visitation rights that later expanded into court proceedings. A judge in 2021 awarded Pitt joint custody, but that decision was later challenged during the ongoing legal process. By the time the children reach adulthood, their living arrangements were largely their own choices. So approximate ages when the separation occurred, Maddox was 15, Pax was 12, Zara 11, Shiloh 10, Knox and Vivian 8, and they're now doing their own thing and choosing to change their name away from Pitt to Jolie. Tom, how do you process this story?

**Tom** (3:07)
Two selfish actors fall in love while filming Mr. and Mrs. Smith.
They abandon their relationships, and get together, and now we have six kids that are being manipulated, lobbied, and confused. And I can say that. I can say that as my objective conclusion, because so many articles left and right have been written about this, you see what's going on. And the victims here are these kids. Kids want a mom, and they want mom roles out of her, and they want a dad, and they want dad roles out of them.
We did the webinar, the fatherhood webinar that we did here. The response to it was amazing, from men, women, and kids. And I look at this, and it just disgusts me. You know, two selfish actors are playing with the lives of these six kids.

**Patrick Bet-David** (4:03)
But let me tell you, Tom, so I had a husband and wife, good friends of mine, where they went through a divorce, nasty divorce. And they had four beautiful kids, okay?
And one day, I'm spending time with, and the guy had a strong personality, and you know, he was a driver, successful driver.
And one day I'm with the kids, and the mother and some friends, and she's there. And I just watched the animosity the kids had towards the dad.
And I went and whispered to the mom, and I said, man, whatever you do, don't feed into it. Don't get your kids to hate their father. This is not good. It's going to hurt them long term. Don't do that. You know, your issue is with your husband. Don't make your issue with the husband their issue with their father's. This is going to have a negative impact on them long term. Keep your animosity internally. Don't pass it to your kids. This is not a good. I've seen this happen in my family, and it backfired. So short term, like, you know, sometimes, you know, it was a lot on the other day, he said something. He said, he says, bad things happen in a family when you make money. He says, I don't know why. People who you had great relationships with just act differently around you. There's an expectation of that, you know, that money. Yeah, it's that interview. I just don't know which clip it is. If you can find it, you know, if you can find which one it is, it's a different one that he gets into with family. But they look at you in a different way. They almost feel like you don't spend enough time with them. You don't spend enough money on them. Everybody expects you to do. So imagine all the pressures already of Pitt and Jolie. Successful, famous, Pitt at one point, the greatest actor. We watched Troy last night. The guy made 17 and a half million dollars on Troy. He crushed it. He makes the movie Angelina Jolie. She's been on some very, very big movies. She's done an amazing job. But dude, if you cannot keep that animosity of you and your husband, you and your wife to yourself, your kids are gonna suffer consequences long-term. So anyways, I mean, I hate seeing when kids don't have the pride of their ethnicity. They don't have the pride of where they come from. They don't have the pride of their family last name.