Angelina Jolie's son Pax, 22, surfaces in LA after bombshell revelation about his relationship to Brad Pitt

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's son Pax surfaced in Los Angeles Saturday, amid stunning claims he has retained ties to his father's family.

Pax's elder brother Maddox, 24, recently became the latest of 'Brangelina's' six children to file legal documents asking to drop the surname Pitt.

The former Hollywood power couple biologically conceived their daughter Shiloh, 20, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 17, and also adopted Maddox, Pax and Zahara, 21.

In 2020, Pax furiously denounced Pitt as a 'world class a**hole' who made his younger children 'tremble in fear,' and when the 'nepo baby' was in a dirt bike accident four years later, his father was reportedly unable to visit him in the hospital.

However a source alleged this week that Pax, 22, still meets with his paternal extended family and has not filed to excise Pitt from his name, according to Page Six.

In the wake of the report, Pax was spotted filling up his vintage Charger RT during a weekend outing in sweltering Los Angeles.

Pax's sister Shiloh legally dropped her father's family name last year, while Zahara and Vivienne have also informally switched from Jolie-Pitt to merely Jolie.

The Daily Mail confirmed Maddox submitted paperwork this May to have Pitt officially taken off his double-barreled surname for 'personal' reasons. 

Pax, on the other hand, has not done so, and a source maintained he 'still has a relationship with his dad’s side of the family and continues to spend time with them.'

According to the insider, Pax 'recently joined his family as they went out to dinner and celebrated his cousin Sydney’s engagement to Archimede Jerome,' in a party that also included Brad Pitt's sister Julie and niece Reagan.

However another source explained that Pax 'doesn’t have much of a relationship with Brad,' who is currently in a nearly four-year relationship with jewelry designer Ines de Ramon, the ex-wife of The Vampire Diaries star Paul Wesley.

Near the end of last month, Maddox filed paperwork with the aim of formalizing the name change he had already put into practice months earlier.

In his mother's new French movie Couture, which was released this February and also starred Louis Garrel, he was credited merely as Maddox Jolie.

Two years earlier, he had been referred to by the name Maddox Jolie-Pitt in the credits of Jolie's Oscar-nominated Maria Callas biopic Maria.

'Brangie' plunged into a seething feud after their split, and over the course of their divorce battle she accused him of being abusive, which he firmly denied.

Pitt is said to be estranged from his children, an impression buttressed by the growing number of them who have dropped his surname.

The former couple infamously fell in love during the making of their 2005 movie Mr & Mrs Smith while he was still married to his first wife Jennifer Aniston. 

Jolie, the daughter of actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand, maintained that she did not have an affair with Pitt while he was with Aniston.

'To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive,' she said on Today. 'I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.'

Fans around the world began siding with 'Team Jolie' or 'Team Aniston,' as a furor erupted over the love triangle with Pitt at its center. 

Pitt and Jolie married in 2014 but split two years later, triggering an explosive legal battle over money and custody that rages on to this day. 

Jolie filed for divorce from Pitt in September 2016, after a mysterious dispute on a private plane in the presence of Maddox, who was then 15.  

Early in the proceedings, the FBI looked into allegations that Pitt became 'physical' with Maddox on the jet, but the investigation was closed with no charges filed. 

Jolie allegedly filed a Freedom of Information Act request as 'Jane Doe' in 2021 related to the FBI documents about the fateful 2016 plane ride.

She apparently dropped the action against the FBI on September 25, 2024, via legal documents obtained by In Touch magazine.

However, in court papers she had filed that April in a property dispute, Jolie accused Pitt of having been abusive to her 'well before' the plane ride. 

Meanwhile Pax suffered a terrifying accident when he crashed his dirt bike into a car in Los Angeles while not wearing a helmet in July 2024.

Sources informed the Daily Mail that Jolie was 'by his side in hospital,' while Pitt was 'distraught and worried over Pax's accident, but he is unable to reach him.'

The accident came four years after Pax unleashed an explosive social media tirade calling his father a 'world class a**hole' and a 'terrible and despicable person' who had caused his four younger children to 'tremble in fear.'

Jolie and Pitt are also still entangled in a legal conflict over the Chateau Miraval, the winery they once shared as a couple in the South of France.

The feud over the property stems from the fact Jolie sold her half to Russian billionaire Yuri Shefler for $62 million in 2021, amid her divorce proceedings.

Shefler presides over a vast international alcohol empire including Stolichnaya and once sold a superyacht to Saudi crown prince Mohammad bin Salman. 

Pitt sued Jolie over the Chateau Miraval sale, insisting she was contractually obligated to obtain his consent as co-owner before offloading her portion.

Jolie has brought up her abuse allegations and custody battle over the course of her years-long battle of wills with Pitt over the winery.

She has asked Pitt to 'end the fighting' and drop the Chateau Miraval lawsuit against her so that their family can have a chance to 'heal.'