Why Are Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s Kids Dropping “Pitt” from Their Names?
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From Sony Music Entertainment and Campsite Media, this is Infamous. I'm Natalie Weberman. And I'm Vanessa Gregorianis. So here in the Northern Hemisphere, it is very much summer. And if you're one of many people who enjoy a drink now and then, you may find yourself reaching for a glass of rosé. But you may not know that one of the top rosés in the world comes from Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's winery, Miraval. Now, since Brad and Angelina filed for divorce in 2016, the pair have been embroiled in an incredibly messy fight over this exquisite French winery involving a Russian billionaire, an altercation on a private plane, and now, as you may have seen recently, some of their kids deciding to drop the name Pitt from their surnames.
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's son Maddox has legally filed to remove Pitt from his last name. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's daughter Zahara officially drops Pitt from her last name.
The actor's 18-year-old daughter Shiloh officially requested to drop Pitt from her last name. Their split up of the family, and by that I mean the Brangelina divorce, took eight years to reach a deal. Which is pretty crazy considering they were only married for two years. And the reason it took four times as long as the marriage itself to settle is due to two reasons. A custody battle and this winery. As Vanity Fair wrote, in Joe Lee's telling, this whole tale is about alcohol abuse and financial control. For Pitt, it's one of vengeance and retribution. Neither can deny its sheer dramatic force. There are echoes even of the movie that brought them together, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, in which they played a married couple surprised to learn that they're both assassins hired by competing agencies to kill each other.
Now, of course, these are two people who play the media very well, between glossy profiles and insiders commenting to the tabloids. But there also seems to be very real conflict here. I mean, as I just said, three of their six kids have legally filed to remove Pitt from their names. It's turning into a very messy conflict involving children, but it does make one wonder. Is Angelina encouraging the kids to drop the names because she's so angry at Brad? Or are the kids dropping the names because they truly want to distance themselves from their father? So let's go back to the beginning. Before she was a humanitarian or a mother, who was Angelina Jolie?
Vanessa, you've actually met her, right? Yeah, I met her when I was very young and she was actually very young, which was at the Gia premiere.
Oh, wow. I remember that movie. That's where she plays a model and the tagline was something about everybody saw the beauty, no one saw the pain, right?
Exactly, right. And she's just this wild model. She's on the back of a motorcycle at one point and this very iconic kind of photo shoot with an enormous gown on and Gia, the model, does die. It was back in the days of the bad girl, Angelina Jolie. And I just, I remember so vividly, it was actually one of the first times I had ever covered a movie premiere. It might've been the first. Being at the party and seeing her, she was in the back of the room and She was wearing sort of, you know, like a tight tank top, black leather pants, that kind of get up, if it wasn't that exactly. And she was by herself. And she was just leaning against this wall. And I went up and asked her a couple of questions. She was really very nice, very poised, seemed lovely, you know.
But it's always struck me that she... was not somebody who was up on a banquette dancing. She was like, I don't really want to be here at this premiere. I'm doing my job. But she wasn't surrounded by a lot of hangers-on. It's really rare to see the star of the movie standing alone at the premiere. And I think that says a lot about who she is just as a person and how she's gone through life. She's so independent.
Yeah, I mean, she is not somebody who's had a normal life by any stretch of the imagination. I mean, she's what we'd call a nepo baby now, which we I think we used to refer to them as Hollywood royalty.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–4:51
2
How did Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s Miraval winery factor into their divorce?
4:51–5:55
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What prompted the children to start legally dropping 'Pitt' from their surnames?
5:55–13:07
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How did Angelina Jolie’s early career and humanitarian work shape her public image?
13:07–27:09