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I’M SHILOH JOLIE

IT’S 2002 and a Los Angeles judge has a petition before him from a young woman: she wants to drop her father’s surname and go only by the names she’s been using professionally.

Angelina Jolie. No more Voight.

The judge signs the petition and Angie is freed from the moniker of the man she blamed for her parents’ divorce.

Leap ahead 22 years and history seems to be repeating itself. Shiloh, the first biological child of Angie and Brad Pitt, is seeking a court order to legally rid herself of her dad’s name. She wants to be known only as Shiloh Jolie – no more Jolie-Pitt.

There are differences between Shiloh’s case and her mom’s: Angie was 27 and already building a

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