Her eldest son Maddox is the only child with Angelina Jolie who has gone through two broken marriages and is also the person she trusted with all her assets when Jolie passed away.

Abandoned Cambodian Boy Has 3 Fathers

In 2002, seven-month-old Rath Vibol was adopted by Angelina Jolie at an orphanage in Battambang and renamed Maddox. On paper, Maddox was born on August 5, 2001 in Cambodia and was abandoned there.

When sharing with the press about Maddox, Angelina Jolie affirmed: ” He is my first child. He makes me a real woman .”

Not Brad Pitt, nor the other 5 children, but Maddox is the relative who has been with Angelina Jolie through the most important stages of her life, including two blossoming and then falling marriages. The hardships of Angelina Jolie’s life are clearly reflected in her eldest son, Maddox.

Unlike Jolie’s other children, Maddox has three names and three fathers. At birth, he was named Rath Vibol and was changed to Maddox Chivan Thornton Jolie when he arrived in the US. Because when she adopted Maddox, Angelina Jolie was still married to actor Billy Bon Thornton.

When her first marriage fell apart, Angelina Jolie gave Maddox a second father – Brad Pitt. The boy’s name was changed a third time to Maddox Chivan Jolie-Pitt.

In 2017, when Maddox was 15, Jolie faced a scandal when a Cambodian man emerged claiming to be the boy’s legal father. Mounh Sarath, a social worker, presented court papers from 2003 confirming he was Maddox’s father.

This person claims that Angelina Jolie’s adoption papers were not legal. In fact, the owner of the adoption agency that helped Jolie adopt Maddox had been imprisoned for 18 months for forging documents, including birth certificates, of many Cambodian children adopted.

The incident of Maddox’s biological father caused a stir for a while and then fell into oblivion. Angelina Jolie certainly did not abandon her eldest son because of the special bond between mother and son. The Telegraph revealed that Angelina and Maddox share a passion for knife throwing.

Maddox was taken by his mother to buy his first knife when he was just 7 years old. This special hobby helps Angelina and Maddox relieve anger and stress – something both mother and son often face after many storms.

Maddox has 3 fathers but only has one mother, Angelina Jolie.

Having been through two marriages with Angelina Jolie, Maddox has been particularly determined to protect his mother, even if it means confronting his father. In 2016, on a flight from France to Los Angeles, a heated argument broke out between Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.

Maddox was present at the argument and he stood up to protect his mother by standing in front of Brad Pitt. Brad Pitt and his older son got into a fight and the Los Angeles Department of Child and Family Services had to intervene to determine whether the Hollywood star was violent towards his child.

Although Brad Pitt was later found innocent, the father-son relationship between him and Maddox was broken. Along with Pax Thien, Maddox always sided with his mother in the noisy divorce. People magazine once revealed that after the two divorced, Brad Pitt was allowed to see his children, but the atmosphere of the meeting became tense when Maddox shouted: “You are not my father” and left.

It was his son’s coldness that shocked Brad Pitt. Maddox is also the only child in the Jolie-Pitt family not affected by the custody agreement between the two famous stars.

Maddox is 17 years old, has the right to decide his own life according to the law, does not need parental guardianship and a source said that the boy has asked the court to allow him not to necessarily meet Brad Pitt.

Perhaps because of this special affection, Maddox is the child that Angelina Jolie chose to entrust all of her assets to. Recent information said that Angelina Jolie decided to remove her other 5 children from her will and leave her fortune of 116 million USD to her son Maddox.

Maddox is Jolie’s “golden boy”.

The boy with personality and talent

Maddox has been exposed to the film industry since he was a child. He was once taken by his mother to promote the film Mr & Mrs Smith and is now a potential film producer. Maddox is the child with the most potential to follow in his parents’ footsteps among Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s 6 children.

The boy played a zombie in his father Brad Pitt’s action film World War Z in 2013. In 2017, Maddox became a production assistant on the set of his mother Angelina Jolie’s film First the Killed My Father.

Sources close to the actress say that the 43-year-old actress is even planning to put Maddox in charge of her film empire. A crew member in Cambodia revealed: ” I heard that Maddox will be in charge of Angelina’s film company. She wants to hand over the work to him .”

Maddox as a production assistant for his mother.

Traveling around the world with his mother since he was a baby, Maddox was raised to understand many cultures. The 17-year-old boy can speak 4 languages: English, Cambodian, German and Russian.

Maddox is currently being encouraged by his mother to attend university in Asia. In late 2018, Jolie took her son to the South Korean capital Seoul to look at some universities there. However, Maddox has not yet made a decision about his future. Going to university away from home will mean Maddox will have to be away from his mother Angelina Jolie while the painful divorce from Brad Pitt is still not over.

Maddox will always be there for his mother and protect her.