Overview

• Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron lodged a 22-count complaint on July 23 in Delaware’s Superior Court seeking unspecified compensatory and punitive damages.
• The lawsuit accuses Owens of orchestrating a global campaign of humiliation by promoting a baseless transgender conspiracy on her “Becoming Brigitte” podcast.
• The action follows Owens’s refusal of multiple retraction requests and invokes US defamation rules that require public figures to prove the defendant knew statements were false.
• An Owens spokesperson characterized the suit as an intimidation tactic and an infringement on her First Amendment rights.
• The case now awaits preliminary rulings on jurisdiction and the threshold question of whether the Macrons can demonstrate actual malice