Why did Angelina Jolie entrust her adopted son Maddox with her entire $116 million fortune when she died?

After the breakdown of her marriage with Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie decided to choose 1 of her 6 children (including biological and adopted children) to hand over inheritance rights and determine her $116 million assets after divorce. she passed away.

Angelina decided to choose her eldest son Maddox as the heir to her entire$116 million fortune after her death. This powerful actress has 6 children, 3 biological children with actor Brad Pitt and 3 adopted children, including adopted son Pax Thien from Vietnam.

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 Chivan Thornton Jolie. At that time, Angelina Jolie was still the wife of actor Billy Bon Thornton. On paper, Maddox was born on August 5, 2001 in Cambodia and was abandoned here.

After Angelina and Billy’s marriage ended, Maddox once again changed his name to “Mr. Smith” Bad Pitt’s surname. Mr. and Mrs. Smith’s second marriage continued to fall apart and Angel had full custody of their 6 children, Brad Pitt had the right to visit and raise the children whenever needed.

Angelina and Maddox when he was a child.

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

Maddox is the son who always takes Angelina’s side in every argument, in addition to common interests such as throwing knives, driving fast cars… 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. Maddox is said to be a person who has a stance and always stays out of family arguments, but when conflicts between her mother and her two ex-husbands occur, Maddox is always the one who protects and protects Angelina.

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.

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.

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 . ”

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.

For that reason, it is not surprising that Angel decided to give Maddox the right to inherit a fortune of 116 million USD, the remaining 5 children do not have the right to inherit. However, that does not mean that those children are not powerful children, because they also have a father who is equally famous as their mother Angelina.