French first lady Brigitte Macron sues conspiracy theorists who claim she was born a man
But now wild claims, made by two female French Internet influencers, that she was actually born Jean-Michel Trogneux and became a trans woman in the 1980s have electrified France.
The French scornfully call it part of the burgeoning “complosphère,” or world of conspiracy theories.
Macron’s libel trial is set for June, where she will face off against the right-wing accuser and freelance journalist Natacha Rey, who hides behind avatars to push rumors that powerful members of the French establishment are hiding Brigitte’s true identity.
The bizarre saga began back in December 2021 when Rey, 49, a self-described freelance journalist and Amandine Roy, 53, who calls herself a clairvoyant, made a now-deleted YouTube video as part of Roy’s online show “Mediumsation,” in which they claimed that Brigitte was born as a baby boy called Jean-Michel Trogneux in 1953.
The conspiracy theory first surfaced in an article written by Rey in the far-right French magazine “Faits et Documents” after Macron was first elected president of France in 2017.
The women also alleged that Brigitte Macron’s first husband, André-Louis Auzière, had never actually existed. The two, who were married from 1974 to 2006, shared three children: daughters Tiphaine, 40, and Laurence, 47, and son Sébastien, 49. Auzière passed away in 2019 at age 68.
Brigitte Macron’s lawyer asked a French court to move up Brigitte’s libel case from 2025 to this June after a tweet by American conservative commentator Candace Owens made the rumors about Brigitte being a man go viral.
“After looking into this, I would stake my entire professional reputation on the fact that Brigitte Macron is in fact a man,” Owens wrote in a Tuesday post on X, formerly Twitter. “Any journalist or publication that is trying to dismiss this plausibility is immediately identifiable as establishment. I have never seen anything like this in my life. The implications here are terrifying.”
https://nypost.com/2024/04/13/world-news...her-a-man/
But now wild claims, made by two female French Internet influencers, that she was actually born Jean-Michel Trogneux and became a trans woman in the 1980s have electrified France.
The French scornfully call it part of the burgeoning “complosphère,” or world of conspiracy theories.
Macron’s libel trial is set for June, where she will face off against the right-wing accuser and freelance journalist Natacha Rey, who hides behind avatars to push rumors that powerful members of the French establishment are hiding Brigitte’s true identity.
The bizarre saga began back in December 2021 when Rey, 49, a self-described freelance journalist and Amandine Roy, 53, who calls herself a clairvoyant, made a now-deleted YouTube video as part of Roy’s online show “Mediumsation,” in which they claimed that Brigitte was born as a baby boy called Jean-Michel Trogneux in 1953.
The conspiracy theory first surfaced in an article written by Rey in the far-right French magazine “Faits et Documents” after Macron was first elected president of France in 2017.
The women also alleged that Brigitte Macron’s first husband, André-Louis Auzière, had never actually existed. The two, who were married from 1974 to 2006, shared three children: daughters Tiphaine, 40, and Laurence, 47, and son Sébastien, 49. Auzière passed away in 2019 at age 68.
Brigitte Macron’s lawyer asked a French court to move up Brigitte’s libel case from 2025 to this June after a tweet by American conservative commentator Candace Owens made the rumors about Brigitte being a man go viral.
“After looking into this, I would stake my entire professional reputation on the fact that Brigitte Macron is in fact a man,” Owens wrote in a Tuesday post on X, formerly Twitter. “Any journalist or publication that is trying to dismiss this plausibility is immediately identifiable as establishment. I have never seen anything like this in my life. The implications here are terrifying.”
https://nypost.com/2024/04/13/world-news...her-a-man/
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