Brad Pitt’s Estranged Son Knox Dyed His Hair Bright Orange Days After Being Called a Young Brad Pitt Clone
The 17-year-old was photographed Monday leaving a Muay Thai class in Los Angeles with a short, layered, vividly dyed orange cut that lands somewhere between Angelina Jolie circa “Playing by Heart” and a 1999 boy band. He paired it with a gray oversized tee, black tiger-print shorts, tall socks, Nikes, and a Thailand-flag-inspired ribbon tied to his bag.
Days earlier, he showed up to sister Zahara’s Spelman College graduation in Atlanta with dark hair, frosted platinum tips, and a faint mustache. The internet did what the internet does. “Genetics did all the work.” “Looks exactly like him.” “Mini Brad.” Side-by-sides with early-2000s Brad started circulating within hours.
Brad Pitt was not at the graduation. Angelina, Maddox, and Pax were.
Knox is one of Brad and Angelina’s three biological children, born in Nice in 2008 alongside twin sister Vivienne. He’s also one of the only Jolie-Pitt kids who still uses the full hyphenated surname. Maddox, Pax, Zahara, and Shiloh have all dropped or distanced themselves from “Pitt” since Angelina filed for divorce in September 2016, and the divorce wasn’t finalized until late 2024. Contact between Brad and the twins has been described as periodic at best, and reports earlier this year said he made “desperate” attempts to reconnect with Knox and Vivienne ahead of their 17th birthday in July.
The Muay Thai is serious. Knox medaled at an IKF Point competition on his 17th birthday at USC, with Angelina and Vivienne in the stands. He trained in Thailand earlier this year, sat ringside at Rajadamnern Stadium in Bangkok, and has been a regular at LA gyms for months. Angelina shows up to the fights. Brad doesn’t.
The hair isn’t even his first experiment. He went platinum-tipped for the graduation, ran a pink shade in late 2025, and has been cycling through looks for the better part of a year. The orange is just the loudest one yet.
One week he’s the “mini Brad” of the comment sections. The next, he looks like his mother.
