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The lawyer, Tom Clare, said in an interview with CNN that a
defamation suit filed Wednesday for the Macrons in a Delaware
court was “really a last resort” after a fruitless yearlong
effort to engage with Owens and requests that she "do the right
thing: tell the truth, stop spreading these lies."
“Each time we've done that, she mocked the Macrons, she mocked
our efforts to set the record straight," Clare said. "Enough is
enough, it was time to hold her accountable."
The Macrons have been married since 2007, and Emmanuel Macron
has been France’s president since 2017.
The 219-page complaint against Owens lays out “extensive
evidence” that Brigitte Macron "was born a woman, she's always
been a woman," the couple's attorney said.
“We’ll put forward our damage claim at trial, but if she
continues to double down between now and the time of trial, it
will be a substantial award," he said.
In Paris, the presidential office had no immediate comment.
The Macrons first met at the high school where he was a student
and she was a teacher. Brigitte Macron was then Brigitte Auzière,
a married mother of three children.
Macron, 47, is serving his second and last term as president.
The first lady celebrated her 72nd birthday in April.
Macron moved to Paris for his last year of high school, but
promised to marry Brigitte. She later moved to the French
capital to join him and divorced before they finally married.
Their relationship came under the spotlight in May when video
images showed Brigitte pushing her husband away with both hands
on his face before they disembarked from a plane on a tour of
Southeast Asia.
Macron later dismissed the incident as play-fighting, telling
reporters that “we are squabbling and, rather, joking with my
wife,” and that it had been overblown into “a sort of
geo-planetary catastrophe.”
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