French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte, intend to submit scientific and photographic evidence in a US court as part of a defamation lawsuit against right-wing commentator Candace Owens, who has repeatedly claimed that the first lady was born male, according to a BBC report published Thursday.
Owens’s lawyers have filed a motion to dismiss the case.
Speaking on the BBC’s Fame Under Fire podcast, the couple’s lawyer, Tom Clare, said the claims had been “incredibly upsetting” for Brigitte Macron and served as a “distraction” for the French president.
“I don’t want to suggest that it somehow has thrown him off his game. But just like anybody who is juggling a career and a family life as well, when your family is under attack, it wears on you. And he’s not immune from that because he’s the president of a country,” Clare said.
The legal case will include expert testimony of a scientific nature, Clare added, though he did not specify the type of evidence. He said the Macrons were prepared to submit proof both in general terms and in detail to counter the allegations.
“It is incredibly upsetting to think that you have to go and subject yourself to put this type of proof forward,” he said. “It is a process that she will have to subject herself to in a very public way. But she...
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