French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte have initiated a fresh defamation case against American podcaster Candace Owens in Nashville, Tennessee, where Owens resides. The lawsuit contains 88 counts of defamation, false light, and defamation by implication filed against Owens personally on 4 November. This action follows an earlier lawsuit the couple brought in July 2025 against Owens and her media companies in Delaware.
The new Tennessee filing represents an escalation in the Macrons’ legal campaign against Owens, who has repeatedly promoted false claims about Brigitte Macron through her podcast and social media platforms. According to the complaint, these claims include allegations that the 73-year-old first lady was born a man and assumed a false identity, that Emmanuel Macron was elected through a CIA mind-control operation, and that the couple are blood relatives engaged in incest. The lawsuit indicates that Owens has intensified her messaging since the Delaware case was filed, including through an eight-part podcast series titled “Becoming Brigitte” and accompanying social media posts.
The complaint alleges that Owens has financial motivations for continuing to spread the false narratives, noting that she has sold merchandise mocking the Macrons and collected donations based on her claims about them. The lawsuit specifically references a doll that Owens uses in her videos, characterizing it as a grotesque caricature of Brigitte Macron that reflects animus toward her perceived gender identity and sexuality. According to the filing, the Macrons have endured a campaign of global humiliation as a result of Owens’s statements.
The legal team representing the Macrons stated that filing in Tennessee addresses Owens’s argument that the state was the appropriate venue. The Macrons are seeking actual, presumed, and punitive damages, along with a narrowly tailored injunction preventing Owens from republishing defamatory statements. The complaint emphasizes that the defamatory nature of Owens’s statements derives from accusations that the Macrons have engaged in decades of deception and criminal activity, rather than from the status of being transgender, gay, or male.
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