Macrons file defamation suit against right-wing US podcaster Candace Owens | Courts News

According to the Macrons, Owens’s podcast series spread ‘verifiably false and devastating lies’.

Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte, have filed a defamation lawsuit against a right-wing US podcaster who claimed the spouse of the French president used to be a man.

The 218-page complaint against Candace Owens, who has millions of followers on X and YouTube, was filed by the Macrons in Delaware Superior Court on Wednesday and seeks a jury trial and unspecified punitive damages.

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