Brigitte and Emmanuel Macron launch defamation case against US podcaster Candace Owens over ‘preposterous’ claim French first lady was born a man
French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte filed an insult against Candace Owens, who claimed that the US commentator was born as a man.
The Macronlar filed a 218 -page lawsuit at Delaware on Wednesday and accused the right -wing Podcaster of publishing a ‘global humiliation campaign’ and ‘ruthless bullying’ of publishing a ‘strange, slander and very challenging fiction’.
Owens attacked a 72 -year -old Mrs. Macron in a documented Youtube video published in March last year and spread the wrong claim that he was a biological man.
The American commentator said that his allegations were based on a ‘comprehensive investigation’ by the French blogger Natacha Rey, who filed a lawsuit by Macronlar in a separate claim in France.
Mr. Macron said in a statement: ‘Mrs. Owens, in response to a repeated withdrawal requests of our lawyers systematically re -confirming these lies, we concluded that directing the issue to a court is the only way to solve.
The ‘Mrs. Owens’ slander campaign is clearly designed to harass us and our families, to suffer and get attention and bad fame. We gave him every opportunity to get away from these claims, but he refused.
‘Our most seriousness that this case will flatten the record and end this slander campaign once and for everyone.’
22 Census complaints, an undefined amount of compensatory and criminal damage requires.
Brigitte Macron is standing next to her husband at Place de la Concore in Place on July 14th
Candance Owens published a false theory that claims that Mrs Macron was born as a man
MS MACRON RESIDENTS PUBLISHED ON SOCIAL MAD
Tom Clare from Clare Locke LLP, Macrons’ chief adviser, announced that 22 census insulting cases were opened against Owens and referring to ‘a ruthless slander campaign throughout the year’.
“Mrs. Owens encouraged a ridiculous narrative about Macrons, including identity theft, incest, violent crimes and misconduct for mind control.
Days after the sources close to macrons reveal Brigitte He was born as a man and As a child, he ‘sexual harassed his future husband.
In March 2024, Owens went to social media to announce that the French First Lady’s real name, Jean -Michel Trogneux, the real name of his older brother before he was 30 years old.
The conspiracy theory claims that Brigitte had never had any of his three children and that his first husband, a 69 -year -old retired banker, had died in 2020.
The wild allegations stem from an article published by French Far-Rright magazine Faits et documents (facts and documents) in September 2021.
However, after the far -right blogger, allegations were seized and Natacha Rey and Clairvoyant Amandine Roy, who contributed to Faits ET documents, discussed them in an interview with a viral Youtube.
Macronlar, Rey, 49 and Roy, launched legal proceedings against 53. The couple was initially guilty of slander and fined.
However, at the beginning of this month, the Paris Court of Appeal identified the allegations made by Rey and Roy and broke the convictions. ‘Made in good faith’ and repeated information in the public area.
Shock decision, ‘absolutely ruined’ is said to be left on the social media French First Lady launched a new wave of abuse.
In addition to filing a lawsuit against Owens in the United States, Makronlar took this case to the Cassation Court, the only legal forum that could overthrow the decisions of the Court of Appeal.
French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron wave at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi on May 26, 2025
French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron arrived at Downing Street in London, England on 9 July 2025
The girl Brigitte Trogneux with a pudding bowl in her mother’s knee is a haircut. His family is famous chocolate and confectionery in the Amiens region of Northern France
The relationship between the 47 -year -old French President Macron and his 72 -year -old wife has been a matter of admiration at home and abroad for a long time since they met in 1992.
He was 39 years old, a married mother and a teacher at the French Catholic School in Amiens. He was 14 years old and a student in the same class as one of his daughters.
Brigitte then divorced her husband and started a relationship with Macron at a late young age.
The case on Wednesday is a rare example of a world leader who sued for insults, although US President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit for insulting for insulting, including the Wall Street Journal’s publisher last week.
In order to dominate the slander cases in the United States, public figures such as Macrons and Trump should show the defendants who deal with ‘real evil’, which means that they know that they are wrong or reckless for the truth.
