The French president, Emmanuel Macron, and his wife Brigitte hired the defamation prosecution in the United States on Wednesday, July 23, July 23, against the American influencer Candace Owens for having transmitted and widely exploited in videos the information according to which Brigitte Macron “man was born,” he learned BFMTV of the Palage L’Elf AFP
This Infox regularly resurfaced in France on social networks from the first elections of Emmanuel Macron in 2017 prospered abroad, particularly in the United States after the extreme right -right blogger Candace Owens took it in March 2024, giving him a global echo since January 2025 by a series of videos entitled “Become Brigitte” (“to become Brigitte”).
The presidential couple filed a defamation complaint on Wednesday before a Delaware Court (EAST), claiming an “exemplary” amount of damages to determine during a trial.
A “defamation campaign” to “gain notoriety and earn money”
His lawyers claim in the complaint that Candace Owens was fully aware of the falsehood of these accusations and systematically rejected all rectification requests, persisting in his “defamation campaign” to “gain notoriety and earn money”, emphasizing that he now has 6.9 million subscribers to his account X and 4.7 million on YouTube.
According to Infox at the origin of this matter, very transmitted in France by movements that mix conspirators, Couvented-Skeptics or extreme right, Brigitte Macron, born trogenux, would never have existed, but his brother Jean-Michel would have taken this identity after having changed sex.
Two women, Natacha Rey and Amandine Roy, who had spread it widely, were sentenced in September by the French justice to pay several thousand euros for damages to Brigitte Macron and 5,000 to Jean-Michel Togneux, but were released in the appeal on July 10. Brigitte Macron and his brother appeared in the cassation against this decision.
Source: BFM TV
