Their first US courtroom venture collapsed over jurisdiction. The second attempt has landed exactly where they wanted it.
Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron have spent more than a year trying to pull a US podcaster into an American courtroom over the same false claim about the French first lady’s gender.
For most of that time, the case has been snagged on where, not what.
Now the fight has moved to Candace Owens’ own backyard. On November 4, the French president and his wife filed a new complaint in the US District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee.
The complaint runs more than 400 pages and lists 88 counts of defamation, false light, and defamation by implication.
The Tennessee venue is not an accident. Delaware Superior Court Judge Sheldon K. Rennie dismissed Owens personally from the Macrons’ original 2025 suit on October 27, ruling the Delaware court had no personal jurisdiction over her because she lives in Nashville. Claims against her companies, Candace Owens LLC and GeorgeTom Inc., remain pending there.
The complaint centers on Owens’ “Becoming Brigitte” podcast series and related posts on X in which she repeatedly claimed Brigitte Macron was born male. According to The Christian Post, the filing traces the campaign to a March 2024 declaration by Owens that she “would stake [her] entire professional reputation on the fact that Brigitte Macron… is in fact a man.”
The Macrons’ lawyers describe the statements as “...
Their first US courtroom venture collapsed over jurisdiction. The second attempt has landed exactly where they wanted it. Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron have spent more than a year trying to pull a ...