FAMILY FEUD

Brad Pitt Nowhere to Be Seen at Son’s Fight Club Birthday Celebration

Hopes that Knox would mend his relationship with his father by his birthday were dashed.

Angelina Jolie, 50, watched her son Knox Pitt win a medal at an IKF Point Muay Thai Technical event on his 17th birthday, while his father, Brad Pitt, 61, was nowhere to be seen. On Thursday, the Daily Mail reported that Pitt was set on mending his relationship with his youngest children, Knox and twin sister Vivienne, in time for their upcoming birthday. Speculations circulated that Knox would be more receptive to repairing their strained relationship with Brad: While Vivienne has informally dropped “Pitt” from her surname, following the same move by her siblings Shiloh and Zahara, Knox has not. Brad has been estranged from the family since Jolie filed for divorce in 2016, after which the star couple were engaged in a messy series of legal battles across eight years over their shared property and custody of their children. The divorce came amid fallout from an incident in 2016 during which Jolie alleges Pitt verbally and physically abused her and their children. Their divorce was formally settled in December 2024, though they are still embroiled in a heated legal battle over their formerly co-owned vineyard. In his latest legal filing, Pitt demanded Jolie turn over her private messages related to the vineyard.