PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte, filed a defamation lawsuit against Candace Owens in the far-right podcaster’s home state of Tennessee. The fresh legal move is the latest development in a sprawling legal case brought by the Macrons after the podcaster falsely claimed in multiple episodes of her podcast “Candace” that Brigitte is a transgender man. The French presidential couple first filed a defamation lawsuit against Owens and her two media companies in July 2025 in Delaware, where her businesses are registered. But a Delaware court last month narrowed that complaint , ruling that it only had jurisdiction over Owens’ corporations in the state.
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