French President Emmanuel Macron has furiously hit back at a long-standing conspiracy theory that his 70-year-old wife, Brigitte, was born male and is transgender, calling it “false and fabricated.”
Mr Macron, 47, became uncharacteristically candid and emotional about ongoing speculation in some right-wing circles about Brigitte Macron, whom he married in 2007.
“The worst thing is misinformation and fabricated scenarios,” President Macron said at an International Women’s Day event in Paris on Friday, after enshrining the right to abortion in the French constitution.
“Even in intimate relationships, people end up believing what you say and getting in the way.”
Brigitte’s look-alike daughter, Tiphaine Orzaine, 40, a lawyer who rarely gives interviews, also addressed the damning rumors in an article. Interview at Paris Match late last month.
“When I hear that my mother is a man being spread on social networks, I feel uneasy on a societal level,” she told the program.
“Trust in what is affirmed and trust in what is proclaimed. Anyone can say anything about anyone, but it takes time to take it back.”
Last summer, a court in Normandy, France, ruled in a defamation lawsuit against two French women, Amandine Roy, 52, a psychic, and Natasha Ray, 48, a self-proclaimed freelance journalist. This false speculation reached its climax when the , According to the Daily Mail.
Both claimed in a four-hour YouTube video, which was deleted in 2021, that Brigitte Macron was born in 1953 as a boy named Jean-Michel Trogneux, which was actually the name of the first lady’s younger brother. Ta.
The women also claimed Brigitte Macron’s first husband, Andre-Louis Ogier, did not actually exist until his death in 2019 at the age of 68, the Daily Mail reported. .
Ray said Andre-Louis’ uncle, Jean-Louis Ogières, forged administrative documents to hide the fact that his wife had given birth to all three of Brigitte’s children, including Thiphene Ausières. the paper added.
After an appeal, Roy was fined just under $1,000 and Ray had to pay about $500.
The Macrons first met when Brigitte, then 40, was teaching drama at the Providence Catholic School in Amiens. The future president was 15 years old, and his daughter Lawrence was his classmate.
The age of consent in France is 15, but Brigitte was concerned about her relationship with Mr Macron and how it would affect her children.
“I took my time so as not to ruin their lives,” Brigitte told Paris Match last year. “It lasted 10 years and it was time to get them on the rails. You can imagine what they were listening to. But I didn’t want to miss out on my life.”
When the couple ended their marriage in 2007, Emmanuel, then 29, told his three stepchildren, “Thank you for accepting our unusual couple.”
