The French president and his wife were born to sue PodCaster to claim in Bergit Macron

French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife filed a defamation suit in the United States on Wednesday against the right -wing influence and PodCaster Candace Owens after he claimed that Brigitte Macron was male.

The Macron said in a lawsuit submitted in the Dilayer Upper Court that Owens launched a “global insulting campaign” full of lies to promote it with its pod and expand the “feverish” fans’ base.

The couple said that the lies included that Brigitte Macron, 72, was born under the name Jean -Michel Trugino, the actual name of her older brother.

The complaint said: “Owenz has dissected their appearance, marriage, friends, families, and their personal history, which surrounds everything to a terrible narration designed to attach and deteriorate.”

He added, “The result,” is the useless bullying on a global scale. “

In a statement, Owens spokesman described the case as an attempt to bully it, after Brigitte Macron rejected Owens’s repeated requests for an interview.

“Candice Owens does not extend,” the spokesman said. “This is a foreign government that attacks the rights of the first amendment of an independent American journalist.”

In a joint statement issued by their lawyers, Macrons said they had filed a lawsuit after Owens rejected three demands that they were retreating from defamatory data.

“Mrs. Owens’s defamation campaign has been designed clearly to harass and cause pain for us and our families, mobilize attention and a bad reputation,” said Macrons. “We gave her every opportunity to retract these allegations, but she refused.”

Nader for the global leader to prosecute

The lawsuit on Wednesday is a rare case from a global leader who suits defamation.

US President Donald Trump has also turned into the courts, including a $ 10 billion US lawsuit accusing Wall Street, which distorts him by claiming that he invented a obscene birthday greeting to the late Jeffrey Epstein in 2003.

The magazine said that she would defend herself against this issue and have complete confidence in its reports.

In December, Trump reached a $ 15 million US settlement with ABC Disney, due to an inaccurate claim that the jury found that he was responsible for rape, rather than sexual assault, in a civil lawsuit.

In order to win the defamation cases in the United States, general numbers must show that the defendants participating in the “actual malice”, a difficult legal standard that requires proof that the defendants know what they published was wrong or had a reckless ignorance of its reality.

Owens has more than 6.9 million followers on the social media platform X and more than 4.5 million subscribers in YouTube.

Macrons suit focus on the eight parts podcasts To become BrigitteThat has more than 2.3 million views on YouTube, and X is linked to it.

According to Macron, the series spread “wrong and destructive lies”, including that Brigitte Macron stole the identity of another person and moved to females, and that the macaron are relatives of the blood who commit kin.

The complaint discusses the circumstances in which Macron met, when the 47 -year -old was a high school student and Brigitte was a teacher. She said that their relationship “remained within the limits of the law.”

According to the complaint, it began with unfounded speculation about the gender of Brigitte Macron to appear in 2021, and this topic was discussed in the famous American podcast hosted by Taker Carlson and Joe Rogan, who have many conservative followers.

In September, Brigitte Macron won a lawsuit in a French court against two women, including a self -described broker, which contributed to spreading rumors about her gender.

The Court of Appeal canceled this decision this month, and Brigitte Macron appealed the highest court in France.