[Regnum] French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife have filed a libel lawsuit against American journalist Candace Owens,
| ..who is pretty enough to marry well, anyway… |
The 218-page lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Delaware, accuses Owens of spreading "absurd, defamatory and fictitious statements," most notably the claim that Brigitte Macron was born a man named Jean-Michel Trogneux.
The lawsuit is a rare case of a sitting world leader personally taking legal action against an internet user over published content, the newspaper notes. The Macrons will face significant challenges in court, as US libel laws require public figures to prove “malice,” meaning that the person knew the information was false, the newspaper reports.
The Macrons are ready to personally come to the US for the court hearing. According to them, the activist repeated false information too often in response to each of the requests for a retraction from the French leader and his wife's lawyers.
The lawsuit alleges the couple "suffered significant reputational damage" and spent "large sums of money to correct their public information."
In a court statement, Macron described the story of how he met Brigitte, denying Owens’s accusations of “child molestation” against the future president’s wife. According to him, they met when he was 15 years old, and Brigitte, his schoolteacher, was 39 at the time, married and raising three daughters. They became close over a school play, but Macron emphasized that their relationship “remained within the law.” After learning of his attraction to the teacher, Macron’s parents transferred him to another school, but he told her that he would “marry her no matter what.”
Earlier, Regnum reported that the Paris Court of Appeal acquitted journalist Natacha Rey, who had previously been convicted under the article "Slander" for stating that Macron's wife Brigitte was actually a man. Also acquitted was Amandine Roy (real name Delphine Jegusse ), on whose YouTube channel Rey performed.
In an interview with Regnum News Agency, Natasha Rey admitted that she provided the court with a lot of evidence and arguments from her investigation. The court ruled that all of them were admissible, and most of Rey's statements did not defame the first lady of France.
US President Donald Trump asked Owens not to continue investigating Brigitte Macron's past. Owens insisted that Brigitte Macron had indeed visited a doctor to undergo a sex change. Then Trump offered her a deal: to stop the investigation in exchange for an interview with him.
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