France’s Macron and wife file defamation complaint

French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte have filed a second set of defamation complaints against US right-wing podcaster Candace Owens two weeks after a US court narrowed a first one, she said on X late on Monday.
The Macrons had sued Owens and two businesses associated with her in July 2025 in a Delaware court over what they called her lie-filled “campaign of global humiliation,” including the false claim that France’s first lady was born a male
In this new lawsuit, the Macrons sued over Owens’s use of a Brigitte doll they called “grotesque” and said was used by the podcaster as a “prop to ridicule her appearance”, according to excerpts of a court filing released by Owens
Last month, a Delaware judge ruled that he did not have jurisdiction over Owens, who lives in Tennessee, and that the Macrons could sue Owens’ companies but not her as an individual