Candace Owens, extremely right blogger and influencer, had published a series of videos relaying the conspiracy theory that the first lady was born man since January 2025. A rare fact, the presidential couple hired prosecution this Wednesday, July 23 in the United States on Wednesday, July 23.
French president Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte hired defamation prosecution in the United States on Wednesday, July 23, July 23, against the American influencer Candace Owens for having relayed and widely exploited in videos the info according to which Brigitte Macron is “born man”, learned BFMTV of the Palais l’elysée, confirming an information cited by AFP.
This infox resurfaced regularly in France on social networks since the first election of Emmanuel Macron in 2017 prospered abroad, in particular in the United States after the far-right blogger Candace Owens took it in March 2024, giving her a global echo since January 2025 by a series of videos entitled “Becoming Brigitte” (“to become Brigitte”).
The presidential couple filed a defamation complaint on Wednesday before a court of Delaware (east), claiming an “exemplary” amount of damages to be determined during a trial.
A “defamation campaign” to “gain notoriety and make money”
Their lawyers claim in the complaint that Candace Owens was fully aware of the falsity of these allegations and systematically rejected all requests for rectification, persisting in his “defamation campaign” to “gain notoriety and make money”, stressing that it now has 6.9 million subscribers to his account X and 4.7 million on Youtube.
According to the infox at the origin of this affair, very relayed in France by movements mixing conspirators, covido-skeptics or extreme right, Brigitte Macron, born Trogneux, would never have existed, but her brother Jean-Michel would have taken this identity after having changed sex.
Two women, Natacha Rey and Amandine Roy, who had widely disseminated her, were sentenced in September by French justice to pay several thousand euros in damages to Brigitte Macron and 5,000 to Jean-Michel Togneux but they were released on appeal on July 10. Brigitte Macron and her brother appeared in the cassation against this decision.
