Zahara Jolie-Pitt has asked a court to make official what she has already been using in public: Zahara Jolie. A judge is scheduled to rule on the 21-year-old’s motion on 28 September.
The filing turns a personal choice into a legal one. Documents obtained by In Touch magazine show that Zahara Jolie-Pitt requested the change from Zahara Jolie-Pitt to Zahara Jolie, setting up a hearing that could confirm the name she has been using informally for months.
That informal use was already visible in Atlanta in 2023, when she introduced herself at her Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority induction ceremony at Spelman College as Zahara Marley Jolie. Later, in May, she again opted out of using her father’s last name when she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in psychology.
The gap between the public name and the legal one is what makes the filing notable now. Zahara has been presenting herself as Jolie in settings that matter to her, but the court record still carries Jolie-Pitt until a judge acts on the motion.
What happens next is straightforward: the hearing on 28 September will decide whether the change is granted. If it is approved, the name she has already chosen for herself in public will become the name on paper too.
