Sacré bleu! Ze French ‘ave filed suit yet again! Hon hon hon!
Okay, sorry, now that I’ve got that out of my system… Brigitte Macron and her husband Emmanuel, the honest to goodness president of France, have filed a second lawsuit against pudding-brained internet provocateur Candace Owens, and yes, it’s because she continues to insist (surely to her own detriment) that Brigitte Macron is transgender.
If you don’t recall the first lawsuit the Macrons filed against Owens last year, I’ve got great news: I totally reported on it! In short, Candace Owens is a conspiracy theorist who turned to podcasting after she got the boot from Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA and Ben Shapiro’s The Daily Wire. One of her most popular conspiracy theories, as you might have inferred, is that Brigitte Macron is a transgender woman! In fact, she has made ten separate videos on the subject, for a total runtime of about nine hours.
On July 23, 2025, the Macrons filed suit in Delaware accusing Owens of defamation. They did not mince words, saying, “She has built a brand on provocation, not truth. Owens labels herself as an independent ‘investigative journalist’ while routinely peddling misinformation under the guise of legitimate reporting… [her] content is not intended to inform but to inflame and attract attention through sensationalism and conspiracy theories.”
In response, Owens doubled down, saying, “The Macrons aren’t suing journalists halfway around the world because we lied.”
Of course, people spreading lies about you is exactly why you file a lawsuit for defamation. Perhaps Candace didn’t have a dictionary handy when she wrote that post. Regardless, that lawsuit changed shape significantly last month when Delaware Superior Court Judge Sheldon Rennie ruled that the court did not have jurisdiction over Candace Owens, because her home residence is in the state of Tennessee. Their suit against two companies associated with Owens, Candace Owens LLC and GeorgeTom, Inc., may continue, but Owens herself must be litigated against in the state of Tennessee.
So that’s exactly what the Macrons are doing! On November 4, they filed a second suit in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. This one is 409 pages long, and contains the same allegations of defamation made before, chiefly that Owens continues to assert that Brigitte Macron is a transgender woman as a means of generating attention and profit. It also includes a few new accusations made by Owens, who allegedly said that the Macrons murdered a journalist for investigating them, and that they are connected to CIA mind control program MKUltra.
It seems to me that, when you’re being sued for defamation, continuously upping the ante with increasingly unhinged, defamatory statements probably isn’t the smart move. Maybe that’s why Owens’ famous lawyer ditched her back in April!
The Macrons’ complaint also states very clearly that they do not consider the accusation that Brigitte is transgender, in and of itself, to be harmful.
“There is nothing shameful or defamatory about being a man, being transgender, or being gay,” the complaint reads. “Owens’ statements are defamatory because they accuse the Macrons of lying to France and to the world, for decades, about who Mrs. Macron is—and of committing crimes to conceal that supposed lie.”
It’s too soon to guess exactly how this will play out, but suffice to say, accusations of assassinations and mind control won’t help Owens’ case in court. Personally, I am now on the Macrons’ side, and hope they absolutely obliterate this horrible dweeb to the fullest extent of the law.
