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# Two women ordered to pay €8,000 in damages after claiming ‘France’s first lady’ Brigitte Macron is trans
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/two-women-ordered-to-pay-e8000-in-damages-after-claiming-frances-first-lady-brigitte-macron-is-trans/
- Published: 2024-09-13T12:00:20.000Z
- Updated: 2024-09-13T11:38:00.000Z
- Description: Brigitte Macron, wife of French President Emmanual Macron, has been awarded €8,000 in damages after two women made claims ‘France’s first lady’ is transgender. Amandine Roy and Natacha Rey had posted a YouTube video in December 2021 alleging the French president’s wife had once been a man named Jean
- Author: Graham Robson
- Tags: France, LGBTQ

**Brigitte Macron**, wife of French President **Emmanual Macron**, has been awarded €8,000 in damages after two women made claims ‘France’s first lady’ is transgender.

**Amandine** **Roy** and **Natacha Rey** had posted a YouTube video in December 2021 alleging the French president’s wife had once been a man named Jean-Michel. The video subsequently went viral just weeks before the 2022 presidential election and prompted Macron to file a libel complaint.

Posts spread on social media claiming the first lady, formerly Brigitte Trogneux, had never existed and that her brother Jean-Michel had changed gender and assumed that identity.

The women have since been ordered to pay a total of €8,000 (£6,750) in damages to the president’s wife, and €5,000 to her brother Jean-Michel Trogneux. They were also given a suspended fine of €500.