Overview
- A Paris court is scheduled to hear the case on Monday and Tuesday, returning the long-running controversy to a judicial setting.
- Candace Owens propelled the French-origin rumor globally in March 2024 through posts and an eight-episode podcast titled "Becoming Brigitte."
- A BFMTV documentary recounts that Brigitte Macron’s tax-portal account once displayed "Jean-Michel dit Brigitte Macron," an incident her chief of staff says prompted a complaint.
- The documentary reports that two people may have been identified in connection with the tax-site naming anomaly, which remains under judicial review.
- An earlier judgment against two bloggers who repeated the claim was annulled on appeal in 2025 on freedom-of-expression grounds.