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7/24/2025, 8:36:05 AM No.511203800
French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte Macron, have filed a defamation lawsuit against American conservative commentator Candace Owens over claims that the French First Lady was born as a man.
The first couple of France filed a 218-page lawsuit in the U.S. state of Delaware on Wednesday against Mrs Owens and her businesses, alleging that she has financially gained from making “demonstrably false” claims about Brigitte Macron being secretly transgender.
Owens has previously stated that she would stake her “entire professional reputation on the fact that Brigitte Macron is in fact a man,” while claiming that Macron was, in fact, her brother, Jean-Michel Trogneux, and had assumed the identity of Brigitte Marie-Claude Trogneux after changing her gender.
In a statement reported by the Financial Times, the Macrons said: “Because Ms Owens systematically reaffirmed these falsehoods in response to each of our attorneys’ repeated requests for a retraction, we ultimately concluded that referring the matter to a court of law was the only remaining avenue.”
Representing the pair, attorney Thomas Clare, of the defamation-focused Clare Locke law firm, told the paper that both President Macron and his wife are willing to personally travel to Delaware to attend a trial in person to seek punitive damages against the American podcaster.
“They believe it’s important to stand up for themselves… Owens has had multiple opportunities to do the right thing and in response she has only mocked them,” Clare said.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/07/23/macrons-file-defamation-suit-against-candace-owens-over-brigitte-transgender-claims/
The first couple of France filed a 218-page lawsuit in the U.S. state of Delaware on Wednesday against Mrs Owens and her businesses, alleging that she has financially gained from making “demonstrably false” claims about Brigitte Macron being secretly transgender.
Owens has previously stated that she would stake her “entire professional reputation on the fact that Brigitte Macron is in fact a man,” while claiming that Macron was, in fact, her brother, Jean-Michel Trogneux, and had assumed the identity of Brigitte Marie-Claude Trogneux after changing her gender.
In a statement reported by the Financial Times, the Macrons said: “Because Ms Owens systematically reaffirmed these falsehoods in response to each of our attorneys’ repeated requests for a retraction, we ultimately concluded that referring the matter to a court of law was the only remaining avenue.”
Representing the pair, attorney Thomas Clare, of the defamation-focused Clare Locke law firm, told the paper that both President Macron and his wife are willing to personally travel to Delaware to attend a trial in person to seek punitive damages against the American podcaster.
“They believe it’s important to stand up for themselves… Owens has had multiple opportunities to do the right thing and in response she has only mocked them,” Clare said.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/07/23/macrons-file-defamation-suit-against-candace-owens-over-brigitte-transgender-claims/
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