Overview

• Macron told Paris Match he filed the case to uphold the truth and defend his honor after the false claim about Brigitte Macron spread widely in the United States.
• The Macrons lodged a 22-count defamation suit in Delaware in July, alleging substantial reputational harm from Owens’s amplification of the claims, including via her ‘Becoming Brigitte’ podcast.
• The complaint also challenges assertions that Emmanuel Macron was part of a CIA mind-control program and that he was statutorily raped as a youth.
• Owens has rejected the lawsuit as “goofy” and a public-relations ploy, saying she is prepared to fight the case in Delaware.
• Reporting says the Macrons engaged Nardello & Co. to document Owens’s statements before filing, and no trial date has been set.