French President Emmanuel Macron has finally responded to longstanding rumors that his 70-year-old wife, Brigitte, gave birth to a man.
Macron, 47, married Brigitte in 2007. They started dating when she was 40 and married, and he was her 15-year-old student at Providence Catholic School in Amiens.
“Although the French age of consent is 15, Brigitte was concerned about her relationship with Macron and how it would affect her children,” the New York Post reported.
Brigitte's daughter was a classmate of Emmanuel.
Daily Mail reports:
As the French debated the unconventional personal life of their head of state, MailOnline obtained details of the ruling handed down by the Court of Appeal in Caen last June.
The order names two defendants – Amandine Roy, a 52-year-old fortune teller, and Natasha Rhee, 48, who presented herself as a freelance journalist.
They both appeared in a four-hour YouTube video in December 2021 in which they claimed that Brigitte gave birth to a baby boy named Jean-Michel Trougnoux in 1953.
This is actually the name of Brigitte's brother, and Mrs. Macron's name was Brigitte Trogneau before her first marriage.
The defendants also alleged that Brigitte's first husband, André-Louis Ozier, did not physically exist before his reported death in 2020, at the age of 68.
The two women were convicted of defamation.
Macron spoke about these allegations on Friday during an event marking International Women's Day in Paris, calling them “false and fabricated.”
“The worst thing is false information and fabricated scenarios,” Macron said. “People eventually believe them and they bother you, even in your intimate relationships.”
Brigitte's daughter, Tiffin Ozen, 40, also addressed the rumors last month in an interview with Paris Match.
“I worry about the level of society when I hear what is being circulated on social media about my mother being a man,” Ozen said. “Trust in what is asserted and credit given in what is declared. Anyone can say anything about anyone, and it takes time to take it down.”
