Angelina Jolie, 51, walked out of Cecconi’s on Melrose Avenue in West Hollywood on Sunday night with her sons Pax, 22, and Knox, 18, after a quiet dinner. Knox drove the group. The three moved through the valet area under the restaurant’s outdoor lights, Jolie in a long brown wool coat over a loose white button-down and wide-leg gray trousers, sunglasses on, a large white bag on her arm, and a silver filigree pendant at her neck. Page Six published the photos the next day.
Pax stayed covered: black casual layers, a baseball cap pulled low, and chunky black-and-white sneakers from an xVessel collaboration with Yohji Yamamoto. The sole is thick and deconstructed, the kind of pair that stands out only if someone knows the collab. Knox wore brown trousers and a white Shihiko T-shirt embroidered with the line “It’s been a long day.” The shirt carries a hidden UV-reactive cat graphic that shows only under direct sunlight. Harper’s Bazaar noted the detail. He also had yellow smiley-face sneakers. The outfits read as everyday, not staged.
The night sits against a string of name changes among the six children Jolie and Brad Pitt share. On November 2 a Los Angeles Superior Court judge signed the order changing Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt to Vivienne Marcheline Jolie. Court records list the reason as personal. She had already used Jolie professionally. Shiloh filed on her 18th birthday in 2024 and received approval that summer. Maddox and Zahara completed their changes in September 2026. Knox graduated from Fusion Academy in Los Angeles in June using “Knox Jolie” on the diploma. He turns 18 in July. Sources told Page Six he has not yet filed a petition, but they describe the step as expected. Pax has not filed. He continues to appear under the hyphenated name in most public contexts and has kept limited contact with relatives on Pitt’s side.
Pax was adopted from the Tam Binh orphanage outside Ho Chi Minh City in March 2007. Jolie applied as a single parent under the rules then in place. Pitt completed the process the following year. His Vietnamese birth name was Pham Quang Sang. He has stayed behind the camera more than in front of it: still photography on First They Killed My Father, assistance on Without Blood, and behind-the-scenes work on the Maria Callas project. He has submitted under the alias Embtto. In July 2024 he crashed an e-bike into a stopped car on Los Feliz Boulevard without a helmet, sustained a head injury and hip pain, and spent time in the hospital. Facial scarring from that crash remained visible in later public appearances. He has had at least one more e-bike incident since.
Knox was born in Nice, France, with twin sister Vivienne. His first name comes from Pitt’s paternal grandfather, Hal Knox Hillhouse; his middle name, Léon, from Jolie’s side of the family. At Fusion Academy, which uses a one-to-one teacher model, he gave a short graduation speech that included an F-bomb while telling the crowd he would fight later that night at Total Sonic Knockout 5. He won the exhibition Muay Thai bout. In January 2025, during the Los Angeles wildfires, he and Jolie were photographed loading water and supplies at a Los Feliz store. Jolie told reporters she was housing people at her home and planned further donations. The twins turned 18 in July.
The children have largely avoided the spotlight. Vivienne recently showed work in an exhibition titled A Gallery on Patience in Patients and spoke about an earlier hospitalization for an eating disorder. Maddox has trained as a pilot. Jolie has said in past interviews that she tries to stay out of the way of the separate lives her children are building. Multiple accounts note years of family therapy after the 2016 divorce filing. The divorce itself settled in December 2024.
Sunday’s dinner produced no public statements from Jolie, Pax, or Knox. The photographs show them standing together near the restaurant sign, then moving toward the car. Cecconi’s is a long-running Italian spot at 8764 Melrose. The images come from Backgrid and Hollywood Curtain. No further details about the meal or conversation have surfaced.
Five of the six siblings have now moved, or are moving, away from the joint surname. Pax remains the one who has not. The outing itself was short, ordinary, and fully documented only in the frames taken outside the restaurant.
