Paris, July 24, 2025 – The Europe Today: French President Emmanuel Macron and First Lady Brigitte Macron have filed a defamation lawsuit against American right-wing commentator Candace Owens, alleging that Owens deliberately spread harmful and false claims about the First Lady’s identity and personal history.
The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in the Delaware Superior Court, spans 218 pages and seeks a jury trial along with unspecified punitive damages. It targets Owens’ widely circulated podcast and YouTube series titled “Becoming Brigitte”, which has sparked controversy for promoting baseless conspiracies, including the false claim that Brigitte Macron was born a man.
In a statement released through their legal counsel, the Macrons condemned the podcast as a “campaign of defamation plainly designed to harass and cause pain to us and our families and to garner attention and notoriety.”
“We gave her every opportunity to back away from these claims, but she refused,” the couple stated.
“It is our earnest hope that this lawsuit will set the record straight and end this campaign of defamation once and for all.”
The complaint accuses Owens of knowingly disseminating “verifiably false and devastating lies” about the Macrons, including claims that Brigitte Macron is a transgender man, that the presidential couple are blood relatives, and that Emmanuel Macron was selected by a CIA mind-control program to lead France.
Macrons’ attorney, Tom Clare, emphasized the seriousness of the accusations in a public statement:
“If ever there was a clear-cut case of defamation, this is it. Owens both promoted and expanded on those falsehoods and invented new ones, all designed to cause maximum harm to the Macrons and maximise attention and financial gain for herself.”
This is not the first time Brigitte Macron has taken legal action over similar claims. In France, she previously won a conviction in September 2023 against two individuals who posted a YouTube video alleging she was born male. However, the decision was later overturned by a Paris appeals court. The case is now pending review by France’s highest court, the Court de Cassation.
The new lawsuit in the United States signals the Macron couple’s determination to challenge international disinformation campaigns and protect their personal reputations in the face of growing online conspiracy theories and targeted harassment.
