French President, Emmanuel Macron, has sued right-wing media personality Candace Owens for defamation after Owens claimed in several videos that Macron’s wife Brigitte, could be a man.
The suit charges Owens with 22 counts of defamation as part of “a campaign of global humiliation” intended to generate profit for Owens and her companies.
According to the complaint, Owens published a video in March of 2025 titled “Is France’s First Lady a Man?” Several other videos followed, including a multi-part series.
The suit alleges that Owens has also sold merchandise related to the claim.
The complaint against Owens states that she “was repeatedly presented with credible, verifiable evidence disproving her claims—including documentation, public records, and direct outreach from the Macrons.”
In the suit, the Macrons say they have suffered economic damage and loss of business opportunities. They are suing Owens for punitive damages.
Owens said in early 2024 that she would “stake [her] entire professional reputation on the fact that Brigitte Macron is in fact a man.” Since then, she has doubled down on these claims and added more, including in an eight-part podcast series called Becoming Brigitte, the lawsuit alleges.
The Macrons sought retractions from Owens, the suit says, for the “demonstrably false” claims she has made about them but she instead “mocked them and used them as additional fodder for her frenzied fan base”.
These outlandish, defamatory, and far-fetched fictions included that Mrs Macron was born a man, stole another person’s identity, and transitioned to become Brigitte; Mrs Macron and President Macron are blood relatives committing incest; President Macron was chosen to be the President of France as part of the CIA-operated MKUltra program or a similar mind-control program; and Mrs Macron and President Macron are committing forgery, fraud, and abuses of power to conceal these secrets.
Brigitte Macron, once a relatively private figure despite her public role, now finds herself at the center of an international misinformation battle. The lawsuit signals that the French presidential couple is no longer willing to let these stories circulate unchecked.
Whether the lawsuit succeeds in stopping the rumors remains to be seen. But what is clear is this: in the age of social media megaphones, falsehoods can travel faster and wider than ever — and fighting back requires not just legal tools, but a commitment to truth that extends beyond borders.
