Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s son, who still goes by his dad’s name and looks just like him, just turned 17. Check out his much-talked-about photos in the comments 👇 .

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This can create the illusion that an old event happened recently.

For example, a post written when Knox was 17 could easily be reshared after his 18th birthday while retaining the original wording.

The result is an article or social-media post that contains a mixture of:

old photograph + old caption + new audience.

This is one reason dates matter so much when reading entertainment news.

What can we actually say about Knox today?

Based on the publicly available information, several things are clear.

Knox is the son of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.

He was born in July 2008 and turned 18 on July 12, 2026.

He has generally maintained a relatively private public profile compared with some members of his family.

He made a rare major public appearance with Angelina Jolie at the Governors Awards in November 2024, when he was 16.

He was also photographed with his mother during a casual Los Angeles outing in May 2025.

He has historically been publicly identified as Knox Jolie-Pitt.

However, reports about whether he currently uses “Pitt” consistently are not completely uniform. Some recent reporting says the younger Jolie-Pitt children have dropped the Pitt surname, while other reporting has said Knox had not publicly announced such a change.

So the viral post should not be treated as a completely current biography.