PARIS, Nov 10 (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte have filed a second set of defamation complaints against US right-wing podcaster Candace Owens two weeks after a US court narrowed a first one, she said on X late on Monday.
• The Macrons had sued Owens and two businesses associated with her in July 2025 in a Delaware court over what they called her lie-filled "campaign of global humiliation," including the false claim that France's first lady was born a male
• In this
new lawsuit, the Macrons sued over Owens's use of a Brigitte doll they called "grotesque" and said was used by the podcaster as a "prop to ridicule her appearance", according to excerpts of a court filing released by Owens
• Last month, a Delaware judge ruled that he did not have jurisdiction over Owens, who lives in Tennessee, and that the Macrons could sue Owens' companies but not her as an individual
• The Macrons have filed the new lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, the couple's counsel told Reuters on Tuesday
• “Mrs. Owens was adamant that Tennessee is where this case belongs because it’s where she lives. With this filing, we are giving her exactly what she has repeatedly demanded," the counsel said in a statement
• "We look forward to holding her personally accountable for the defamatory lies she continues to promote and monetize," the statement added.
(Reporting by Inti Landauro and Elizabeth Pineau; Editing by Makini Brice and Sanjeev Miglani)
