Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s son Knox Jolie-Pitt is embracing his wilder side with a fiery new hairstyle.
The 18-year-old was seen sporting spiked red hair with blond shaved sides as he stepped out in Los Angeles on Monday, August 10.
Knox was all smiles as he jogged through the City of Angels wearing a cream T-shirt, black shorts, white socks and Crocs, according to photos published by the Daily Mail.
The teenager looked relaxed and slightly sweaty as he enjoyed the afternoon sun on Monday, with his bold new hair color turning heads along his route.
Knox’s style statement comes amid his family’s ongoing ups and downs with their dad, 62, following Pitt and Jolie’s highly-publicized 2016 divorce. (The former couple finalized their divorce in December 2024.)
As of August, Knox is one of the exes’ two children who have not decided to legally drop their dad’s last name from their monikers after spending much of their childhood being raised primarily by the Maleficent actress, 51.
Maddox, Zahara, Shiloh and Vivienne have all distanced themselves from their famous father over the past few years, filing to only use their mother’s last name , leaving Knox and 22-year-old Pax the actor’s only children who go by “Pitt.”
Us confirmed that Shiloh, 20, was the first to make a change, filing a motion to change her moniker on her 18th birthday in May 2024. The petition was granted three months later.
Zahara, 21, followed suit in April, filing her own petition that was processed that June.
Twenty four-year-old Maddox, who was legally adopted by Pitt after he married Jolie in 2014, filed for his name change in May.
Vivienne, Knox’s twin, has been going by Vivienne Jolie for her entertainment credits, including working as a production assistant on the Broadway show The Outsiders. Us confirmed in July that the 18-year-old officially filed to legally drop “Pitt” from her surname as well.
With every legal filing, Pitt has been feeling his family grow further apart, a source exclusively told Us earlier this year.
“He feels most hurt out of everything that happened with Angie that his children don’t want a public association with his last name,” the insider said in May. “It’s been very difficult.”
The Fight Club star “still does hope and keeps the door open to eventual reconciliation, hopefully with all of them, but it is their decision,” the source explained.
As each of his children become adults, the insider added that Pitt knows he “has no power and he can’t force them” to keep his last name.
Pitt, for his part, made a rare comment about his personal hardships in an interview with Esquire published on Monday.
“I’ve never been suicidal except for one little period. And in that one little period, I just thought — I just couldn’t — just didn’t see a way out,” the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood actor revealed. “The pain was so oppressive that — I wasn’t going to act on this, but I could feel — I could feel the cold steel of the bullet in my head, and it felt like relief.”
Pitt recalled, “And I thought, ‘Oh, OK, now I understand — I understand suicide, in the sense that it’s just relief. It’s just looking for relief from the pain. But I also think we have incredible survival instincts.”
When asked whether the “oppressive” pain had anything to do with “kid stuff,” Pitt replied, “Family stuff. … We could leave it at that.”
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