What we know about Zahara Jolie, the college girl: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s adopted daughter decided not to use her dad’s surname in her sorority speech, and has her own jewellery line
There’s no doubt that Zahara Marley Jolie is close to her mum, Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie – they’ve been pictured everywhere together.
As seen in a video shared by Essence on Wednesday, Zahara may have dropped her famous father’s surname.
“My name is Zahara Marley Jolie,” she says in the clip, “Coming all the way from the Golden State in the city that is full of angels, Los Angeles, California. … I am this line’s number seven.”
Zahara joins her sorority sisters as part of the latest class of the Mu Pi chapter at Atlanta’s Spelman College, per Us Weekly. She enrolled at the university back in 2022, and has had plenty of support from her mum, who helped her move into her dorm last August, according to the magazine.
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Here’s everything you need to know about Zahara Marley Jolie, as she continues to embark on her college life:
Zahara Jolie is the adopted daughter of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt
Zahara Marley Jolie was born in January 2005, in Hawassa, Ethiopia. She was adopted by Jolie when she was just seven months old, per People. Pitt later joined for the official adoption process.
She’s close to her siblings
Jolie and Pitt share six children from their relationship. Zahara seems close to all her siblings, and has been pictured with Shiloh Jolie Pitt on numerous occasions in recent months.
She has three brothers: Maddox, 22, Pax, 19, and Knox, 15, and two sisters, Shiloh, 17, and Vivienne, 15. Knox and Vivienne are twins.
She met Ethiopia’s first female president, Sahle-Work Zewde
Zahara may be interested in politics – just like her mum. In 2019, Angelina took her daughters Zahara and Shiloh to meet the first female president of Ethiopia, Sahle-Work Zewde. According to People, their discussion revolved around topics like education and sanitary pad solutions for girls in the region.
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She’s got acting credits
Both of Zahara’s parents are in acting, so it’s not too surprising that she’s done the occasional cameo!
She launched a fine jewellery collection
In October 2019, news surfaced that Zahara had launched The Zahara Collection, which was available at Saks Fifth Avenue locations. She wore some of the pieces from the collection in collaboration with jeweller Robert Procop on red carpets, according to Buzzfeed.
A philanthropist at heart, just like her mum, Zahara donated all of the proceeds to the Los Angeles-based House of Ruth Shelters, which “provides transitional housing for battered women and children”, according to a press release.
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What happened between Zahara and her dad Brad Pitt?
Since her parents’ split in 2016, things have been tense in the Jolie-Pitt household amid a lengthy divorce battle between the two former lovers.
According to British media, the relationship came to an “explosive end” in 2016, after Jolie and Pitt allegedly got into a physical altercation while on a private flight with their children. Jolie reportedly claimed that Pitt had “choked” one of the kids, amid various other allegations.
It’s unclear where Pitt stands now when it comes to his relationships with his kids, but he did make it clear that he’s proud of his daughter, Zahara.
“I’m so proud of her,” he told Vanity Fair last August, “She’s so smart. She’s going to flourish even more at college. It’s an exciting and beautiful time to find her own way and pursue her interests. I’m so proud.”
- Zahara Marley Jolie, a new member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority at Spelman College in Atlanta, introduced herself to her classmates by omitting her dad’s last name – using only ‘Jolie’
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