Overview

• Their lawyer, Tom Clare, said on the BBC’s Fame Under Fire podcast that expert testimony “scientific in nature” will be introduced to show Owens’s claims are false.
• Clare said photographs of Brigitte Macron pregnant and with her children exist and will be presented in court under evidentiary rules.
• Filed on July 23 in Delaware Superior Court, the 218–219-page complaint seeks unspecified compensatory and punitive damages for what it calls a campaign of global humiliation.
• Candace Owens has repeatedly promoted the debunked allegation in videos and an eight-part podcast series, saying she would stake her entire professional reputation on it.
• Owens’s lawyers have moved to dismiss on jurisdiction and hardship grounds as the U.S. suit proceeds pre-trial under the actual-malice standard, with related French appeals ongoing after an earlier win was overturned.