The president of France, Emmanuel Macron, and his wife Brigitte has filed a lawsuit for defamation in the United States against the United States against influencer American ultra -rightist Candace Owens for spreading the theory of conspiracy that the French first lady is a transsexual woman.
The complaint has been filed before a court in Delaware and claims an amount not specified by compensation and punitive damage after Owens, which has 5.6 million followers on Instagram, has defended that Brigitte was born as Jean-Michel Trogneux, which is actually the name of his brother.
The influencer Ultraderechista – known for spreading conspiracy theories such as the denial of the holocaust or that man never reached the moon_ began to publish in January 2025 a podcast called Becoming Brigitte in which this type of accusations pours. The first introductory chapter has about 4.5 million visualizations.
According to the 219 pages document, Owens began to promote the theory that he stole his brother’s identity and is committing incest in his marriage to Macron in 2024. The influencer He has even come to make t -shirts with Brigitte’s face and the slogan “man of the year” under his photograph, as he has collected Politico.
The first lady has been a recurring object of this type of bulos since the rise of her husband to the French presidency in 2017. In fact, two women have already been sentenced to pay fines and compensation for spreading false information about which man was born.
