HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have finalized the adoption of their Vietnamese-born son Pax Thien.
The couple took in the 4-year-old boy almost a year ago from an orphanage in Vietnam. The adoption had to first be approved in Vietnam. On Wednesday, it was approved by an L.A. County Children's Court judge, according to TMZ.
Jolie, 32, and Pitt, 44, also have three other children. Son Maddox, 6, was born in Cambodia, while daughter Zahara, 3, was born in Ethiopia — both children were adopted from orphanages. The couple also has a biological child, daughter Shiloh, who was born May 27, 2006.
Pax was abandoned at birth at a Vietnamese hospital in 2003 and first welcomed into the couple's home last March. Jolie's mom, Marcheline Bertrand, suggested the name Pax before her death from ovarian cancer in January.
Last summer, Jolie appeared on CNN's "Larry King Live" and said of Pax, "He had no freedoms for three and a half years. ... He lived in the same place on the same cot along with 20 other cots and did things at the exact same time and had no chance to have an opinion himself or do — he lived a very structured life. But he's also suddenly very free."
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