Two French women argued that Macron’s husband is a man. They failed. A court in France ruled in the case of women who called Brigitte Macron a transsexual. 09.12.2024, 19:32

The Paris Criminal Court has ruled in a case in which rumors spread that the husband of French President Brigitte Macron was born a boy and had a sex change in the 1980s. The First Lady and her brother Jean-Michel Tronier accused two women – journalist Natasha Ray and medium Amandine Roy, as she calls them – of insult Dissemination of defamatory information. Libel differs from slander in that the information disclosed may not be knowingly false, the defendant may rely on the information or provide evidence of its truth, but the disclosure of such facts is considered unlawful.According to BFMTV, Ray and Rua must now pay 14,000 euros. Moral damages will be 8,000 euros for Brigitte Macron and 5,000 euros for her brother. Each defendant will also pay a fine of 500 euros.

Macron and Tronier filed a lawsuit in April 2024, claiming to insult the journalist and the “media”. The family’s lawyer Jean Ennochi then demanded 10,000 euros from them.

In June, Natasha Ray and Amandine Roy testified in court. As the agency reported France24Rua stated that the journalist was willing to share the results of his investigation and was simply “responding to his request”. The media did not question the facts that Natasha Ray allegedly discovered because she “spent three years researching and did not pull everything out of a hat”.

“I am saddened that this has not been taken up and investigated by the mainstream media,” Amandine Roy said, admitting that she could not hide such a serious issue from the public.

Who came up with the idea that Brigitte Macron is a man?

Rumors that the French first lady was born a man began spreading in April 2021, a year before the country’s presidential election in which Emmanuel Macron is running for a second term.

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Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte celebrate their election victory in central Paris on April 24, 2022.

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For the first time, an article with relevant statements was published in the far-right subscription newspaper Faits & Documents. The publication hired Natasha Ray, who wrote an article about the alleged real past of Brigitte Macron. The material indicated that the First Lady of France was a transgender woman who until the 1980s was a man named Jean-Michel Tronier. According to the journalist, she was born in 1953, has three children from a marriage with a woman named Catherine Ozier. According to this version, Brigitte Macron’s first husband Andre-Louis Ozier did not exist at all.

The publication published six more publications on the subject, but it was only in December 2021 that the myth that Brigitte Macron was born a man began to debunk. Natasha Ray then gave a YouTube interview to the “clairvoyant” Amandine Roy (real name Delphine Jegusse). In the video, the two women discussed at length for four hours the First Lady’s alleged transgender status and the “state deception” surrounding her. The video was viewed more than 450 thousand times but was eventually deleted.

How did Brigitte Macron explain the conspiracy theorists’ theory?

In January 2022, Brigitte Macron revealed in an interview with one of the French radio stations that Tronier was her maiden name, while Ozier was the surname of her first husband. Conspiracy theory authors confused him with his brother Jean-Michel TronierBrigitte and Michel were the youngest of the Tronier family’s six children.

Brigitte Macron had three children from her marriage to Louis-André Ozier, who died in 2019 at the age of 68.

Catherine Ozier, who is known as Brigitte Macron’s ex-wife, is also a real person. She is married to Jean-Louis Ozier, the uncle of Brigitte Macron’s first husband. They never had any children.

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Brigitte Macron

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At the beginning of 2022, Brigitte Macron filed a lawsuit with her brother and three children from her first marriage. They accused Natasha Ray and Amandine Rua of interfering with their privacy and violating their personal rights, preventing others from using their identity, voice, appearance, name and other personal characteristics. However, in 2023, the court rejected the claim, declaring that the accusation was made under the wrong article. It turned out that the Tronier family should have accused Rae and Rua of defamation.

At the same time, Catherine Ozier, who lives in Normandy, was suing the journalist and the “media”. She initially accused them of slander. In February 2023, the court fined Ray and Rua €2,000. They also had to pay the Ozier family’s legal fees: Catherine was entitled to €3,000 and her husband €2,000.

How did Emmanuel Macron and Brigitte’s children react to the rumours?

French President Emmanuel Macron first voiced the rumours about his wife in March 2024. In an interview with French television channel TF1 on International Women’s Day, he said: “The worst is misinformation and made-up scenarios. People end up believing them and harassing you, even your loved ones.” He added that the attacks on his wife were a typical example of the misogyny that women face every day.

Her youngest daughter, writer Tiphaine Ozier, also defended Brigitte Macron.

“I don’t feel any pain, just anger at the misinformation. “When I hear people writing on social networks that my mother is a man, I start to worry about the level of society,” he said in an interview with Paris Match in February 2024. — The composure with which he says it and the confidence in these statements. Anyone can say anything about anyone, and it takes time to eliminate it.

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Brigitte Macron with her daughter Tiphaine Ozier

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How did Emmanuel Macron marry his teacher?

The true story of the relationship between Emmanuel Macron and his wife, who is 24 years older than him, has been told more than once. Brigitte Macron, nee Tronier, was his drama teacher at a religious school in Amiens, a city in northern France. They met when Macron was 15 years old. The young man was overwhelmed with feelings for the 38-year-old teacher, who was married and raised three children. Learning about this, his parents sent him to study in Paris. He continued his relationship with Brigitte Tronier-Ozier for two years and never fell in love with anyone his own age.

The courtship lasted 10 years – the future First Lady of France decided that raising children was more important to her. And then she moved on with her life. Brigitte Tronier married Emmanuel Macron in 2007, a year after the divorce.