Brigitte Macron and her husband, President Emmanuel Macron
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The First Lady of France, Brigitte Macron, is expected to provide photographic evidence in a Superior Court in the US to prove that she is a woman contrary to allegations made by right-wing influencer, Candance Owens, that she was born a man.
According to her lawyer, Tom Clare, they will be presenting the photographs in support of their defamation suit against Owens.
Clare made this known in an interview with the BBC.
The defamation case was filed in July this year, accusing Owens of propagating “outlandish, defamatory, and far-fetched fictions” that fuelled a lie-filled “campaign of global humiliation” and “relentless bullying”.
Speaking on the BBC’s Fame Under Fire podcast, Clare – who is the lead counsel for Mrs. Macron – says the couple were ready to prove “generically and specifically” how Owens’ claims are false. Without revealing further details, he said lawyers will rely on “expert testimony” that “will be scientific in nature”.
Clare was asked if the photographs would show Mrs Macron when she was pregnant, but he refused to provide further details and added the images would be presented in court, the BBC reported.
But he says Owen’s comments were “extremely upsetting” to the Macrons: “It is incredibly upsetting to think that you have to go and subject yourself, to put this type of proof forward.”
However, he said Mrs Macron is willing to “subject herself to [this process] in a very public way” in order to “do what it takes to set the record straight”.
According to him, he was aware the claims had been a ‘distraction’ to the French leader, adding: “I don’t want to suggest that it somehow has thrown him off his game”.
He says “He’s not immune from that because he’s the president of a country.”
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There has been speculation that Brigitte Macron was born a man—specifically under the name Jean-Michel Trogneux—is part of a debunked conspiracy theory that emerged in France in 2021 and has been repeatedly refuted and legally challenged.
But the claims re-emerged in July 2025 after Owens in a podcast series, alleged Brigitte was born a man, prompting the Macrons to file a defamation lawsuit in Delaware in July accusing her of a “campaign of global humiliation.” The case puts claims of digital misinformation into an international legal forum in which free speech might be debated in a U.S. courtroom.
A lawsuit filed on July 23 in the Superior Court in the State of Delaware, accused Owens of pushing a “false statement” that Brigitte Macron was a man, disregarding “all credible evidence disproving her claim.”
Following demands for a retraction, the lawsuit said that Owens hosted a podcast series, titled Becoming Brigitte which along with posts on X, “endorsed, repeated, and published a series of verifiably false and devastating lies about the Macrons.”
