Eldest son Maddox is the only child with Angelina Jolie who has experienced two stormy failed marriages and is also the person she trusted with all her assets when Jolie passed away.

Abandoned Cambodian boy has 3 fathers

In 2002, the seven-month-old boy – Rath Vibol was adopted by Angelina Jolie at an orphanage in Battambang and changed his name to 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: “That is my first child. He makes me a real woman.”

Not Brad Pitt, nor the remaining five children, it is Maddox who is the relative who has gone through the most important stages of her life with Angelina Jolie, including two blooming and then broken marriages. The hardships of Angelina Jolie’s life are clearly visible in her eldest son Maddox.

Unlike all of Jolie’s other children, Maddox has 3 names and 3 fathers. At birth, the boy was named Rath Vibol and was changed to Maddox Chivan Thornton Jolie when he came to America. Because when she adopted Maddox, Angelina Jolie was still the wife of actor Billy Bon Thornton.

When her first marriage broke down, 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 years old, Jolie had to face a scandal when a Cambodian man appeared claiming to be the boy’s legal biological father. Mounh Sarath, a man who works as a social worker, presented court papers from 2003 recognizing him as Maddox’s father.

This person believes that Angelina Jolie’s adoption papers in the past were not legal. In fact, the owner of the adoption brokerage company that helped Jolie adopt Maddox had to spend 18 months in prison for falsifying documents, including the birth certificates of many adopted Cambodian children.

The case of Maddox’s biological father caused a stir for a while and then fell into oblivion. Angelina Jolie certainly does not give up on her eldest son because mother and son have a special bond. The Telegraph revealed that Angelina and Maddox share a passion for knife throwing.

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

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

Having gone through two marriages with Angelina Jolie, Maddox proved especially determined to protect her mother, even if that meant having to confront her father. In 2016, during the flight from France to Los Angeles, a heated argument broke out between Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.

Maddox was present at the argument and the boy stood up to protect his mother by standing in front of Brad Pitt. Brad Pitt and his eldest son had a collision and the Los Angeles Department of Child Protection and Family Support had to intervene to determine whether the Hollywood star had committed violent acts against 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 stood by his mother’s side in the noisy divorce. People magazine once revealed that after the two divorced, Brad Pitt was allowed to meet his children, but the meeting atmosphere 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 who is not affected by the custody agreement between the two famous stars.

Maddox is 17 years old and has the right to decide his own life according to the law, without the need for parental guardianship, and a source said that the boy has asked the court for permission not to meet Brad Pitt.

Perhaps it is because of this special affection that Maddox is the child chosen by Angelina Jolie to entrust all her assets to. A recent report said that Angelina Jolie decided to leave her five other children out of her will and leave her son Maddox a fortune of $116 million.

Maddox is mother Jolie’s “golden boy”.

Personality and talented boy

From a young age, Maddox was exposed to the film industry. The boy whose mother once took him to promote the movie Mr & Mrs Smith is now a potential film producer. Maddox is the child with the most potential to succeed his parents among the six children of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.

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

Some close sources said that the 43-year-old actress is even planning to let Maddox take charge of her movie empire. A film crew member in Cambodia revealed: “I heard that Maddox will be in charge of Angelina’s film company. She wants to give the job back to him.”

Maddox as a production assistant for her mother.

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

Maddox is currently encouraged by his mother to attend college in Asia. At the end of 2018, Jolie took her son to the Korean capital Seoul to visit some universities here. However, Maddox has not yet made a decision about his future. Going to college away from home will mean Maddox has to be away from his mother Angelina Jolie as the painful divorce with Brad Pitt is not yet over.

Maddox will always be the one to stay by her side and protect her mother.