French President Emmanuel Macron is suing far-right commentator Candace Owens for repeatedly saying that his wife, Brigitte Macron, is a man.
The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Delaware, slams Owens for spreading “devastating lies” and ignoring facts to push wild conspiracy theories. Macron’s legal team says Owens “disregarded all credible evidence disproving her claim” and instead promoted the views of “known conspiracy theorists and proven defamers.”
Back in 2024, Owens—who was then with the Daily Wire—publicly declared, “I will stake my entire professional reputation on the fact that Brigitte Macron is a man.” She didn’t stop there. She doubled down, launching an eight-part podcast series titled “Becoming Brigitte,” where she pushed bizarre claims about the French first lady’s identity.
The lawsuit calls the series “outlandish, defamatory, and far-fetched.” It lists some of the most extreme allegations made in the show, including claims that Brigitte Macron was born a man, stole someone else’s identity, and transitioned into her current identity. It also accuses Owens of pushing even more disturbing claims — like Brigitte and Emmanuel Macron being blood relatives, involved in incest, and that Macron himself is part of a CIA mind-control experiment. The suit says Owens even alleged the couple is guilty of fraud and abuse of power to cover it all up.
“These claims are demonstrably false, and Owens knew they were,” the lawsuit says.
It also goes after her broader record, saying this is part of a pattern. “This is nothing new for Owens. She has built a brand on provocation, not truth,” the suit reads. It accuses her of calling herself an “investigative journalist” while regularly spreading misinformation. The lawsuit points out she has promoted conspiracy theories before — including false anti-vaccine claims, antisemitic myths like blood libel, and even Holocaust distortion, once calling Nazi doctor Josef Mengele’s experiments “propaganda.”
The Macrons are represented by the high-powered law firm Clare Locke and are asking for a jury trial and damages.
A spokesman for Owens told Mediaite she would respond to the lawsuit on her podcast: “Candace will be officially responding to this on her podcast today, as we are just learning about this in the press.”
