Overview

• Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron filed a 219-page defamation complaint on July 23 in Delaware Superior Court, engaging Clare Locke to pursue potential damages
• Owens has doubled down on her baseless claims that Brigitte Macron is transgender and in an incestuous marriage through four recent podcast episodes
• On Tucker Carlson’s show, Owens said a member of President Trump’s team asked her to stop discussing Brigitte Macron’s “penis” to aid Russia-Ukraine war negotiations
• The Macrons’ legal filings cite voting records, a birth announcement and photographs to refute Owens’s allegations and meet the actual malice standard
• The lawsuit has deepened splits within conservative circles and underscores the clash between sensationalist commentary and U.S. libel requirements