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French President Emmanuel Macron and his woman Brigitte Macron get successful Downing Street connected July 9, 2025 successful London, England. (Getty Images)
French President Emmanuel Macron and his woman Brigitte Macron program to taxable "photographic and technological evidence" successful a US tribunal to antagonistic claims that Brigitte was calved male, BBC reported, citing the lawyer representing them successful a defamation case.The mates filed the suit successful July against US commentator Candace Owens and her business, accusing them of making repeated defamatory statements.Owens, a blimpish governmental commentator with astir 4.5 cardinal subscribers connected YouTube, has claimed that Brigitte Macron was calved antheral and transitioned earlier marrying Emmanuel Macron. She said past twelvemonth she would "stake [her] full nonrecreational estimation connected the information that Brigitte Macron is successful information a man" named Jean-Michel Trogneux, and aboriginal produced an eight-part podcast bid repeating the allegation.Tom Clare, the couple’s lawyer from the steadfast Clare Locke, told the BBC’s Fame nether Fire podcast that Brigitte Macron recovered the claims "incredibly upsetting" and that they had go a "distraction" for the French president.Clare said: "Expert grounds volition travel retired that volition beryllium technological successful nature." He did not specify the signifier of the grounds but added the mates were prepared to show, "both generically and specifically," that the claims were false.
"It is simply a process that she volition person to taxable herself to successful a precise nationalist way," helium said. "But she is firmly resolved to bash what it takes to acceptable the grounds straight." He added that photos of Brigitte Macron large and raising her children would beryllium presented.According to The Guardian, the Macrons’ suit states that Jean-Michel Trogneux is Brigitte Macron’s elder member and lives successful Amiens, bluish France, wherever helium grew up with her and 4 different siblings.
He attended Emmanuel Macron’s statesmanlike inaugurations successful 2017 and 2022.Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron archetypal met astatine the precocious schoolhouse wherever helium was a pupil and she was a teacher. At that time, she was Brigitte Auzière, joined and raising 3 children.Emmanuel Macron, 47, is serving his 2nd and last statesmanlike term. Brigitte Macron turned 72 successful April.
