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Candace Owens Exposes Brigitte Macron's Powerful PR Machine and Legal Intimidation Tactics After DDOS Attacks

February 4, 2025

Candace Owens unveils the second installment of her Becoming Brigitte series after facing extensive DDOS attacks and receiving a second legal letter from Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron. She exposes the sophisticated propaganda campaign orchestrated by PR powerhouse Mimi Marchand, billionaire connections to LVMH's Bernard Arnault, and the couple's strategy of avoiding the central question while threatening defamation over peripheral claims. Owens reveals how the French media was flooded with airbrushed images and fabricated timelines, details the couple's ties to controversial figures including a plastic surgeon specializing in feminization procedures, and reads the macron's latest legal letter in full. The investigation demonstrates how powerful elites use legal threats and media control to suppress questions about their past.

The Return of Becoming Brigitte After Cyber Attacks

Candace Owens opens the second episode of her Becoming Brigitte series by explaining the delay in releasing this installment. After announcing the episode would air on CandaceOwens.com, the website underwent extensive DDOS attacks throughout the weekend, with servers being overwhelmed. Additionally, a second strongly worded legal letter arrived from the Élysée Palace from Brigitte and Emmanuel Macron. Owens notes that the couple's aggressive response suggests they have something significant to hide.

How the French Media Sold an Improbable Love Story

Owens addresses a question many viewers had after the first episode: how did the French people allow this to happen? She explains that Emmanuel Macron's rise parallels Barack Obama's in some ways—both were relatively unknown before their presidential campaigns. However, Macron's situation differs dramatically because he married someone more than two decades his senior who was allegedly his teacher when he was just 14 years old.

According to the official story, Brigitte was 39 years old and a teacher at La Providence school in Amiens when she saw 14-year-old Emmanuel perform in a school play. She was reportedly married with three children at the time, including a daughter named Laurence who was the same age as Emmanuel and attended school with him. The narrative claims Brigitte was so swept away by the young student that she eventually divorced her husband and broke up her family.

Journalist Xavier Poussard, who broke this story, explains in his forthcoming book that selling this improbable narrative required intense propaganda deployed across all media—television, radio, and internet. Books praising Brigitte and Emmanuel along with glossy magazine covers saturated the public space. The media compared young Emmanuel to Mozart and portrayed Brigitte as a dynamic, beautiful, charismatic woman—creating what Poussard calls a "pulpy narrative" designed by Parisian public image specialists.

The PR Machine: Mimi Marchand and Media Saturation

To control Brigitte's public image, the couple brought in Mimi Marchand, known as the "popess of celebrity press." Mimi, who goes by that nickname, is notorious for her tactics and has been accused of using blackmail and coercion. Her task was to flood the public with carefully selected, airbrushed photos of the presidential couple through her photo agency Best Image.

Paris Match magazine alone dedicated 13 covers to Brigitte. In total, no less than 60 newspaper covers were devoted to Brigitte within just 26 months. Owens describes this as a psychological strategy of oversaturation—when the public receives so much information, it becomes implausible that anything could be hidden. It creates a media bystander effect where people assume the story is already fully covered.

The official timeline presented by media claimed the age gap was that he was 17 and she was 36—both outright lies according to Owens. The media narrative stated Brigitte Trogneux was born April 13, 1953, married banker André Louis Auzière in 1974 at age 21, had three children (Sebastian in 1975, Laurence in 1977, and Tiphaine in 1984), worked as a press officer before switching to teaching in the mid-1980s, and eventually fell in love with student Emmanuel Macron.

Billionaire Connections and LVMH Ties

Acting as intermediary between Mimi Marchand and the Macrons was billionaire Xavier Niel, son-in-law of Bernard Arnault, CEO and chairman of LVMH (Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy). In January of last year, Arnault overtook Elon Musk to become the richest man in the world.

Two of Arnault's children were taught by Brigitte in school. She later developed a close relationship with Arnault's eldest daughter Delphine, who became Brigitte's clothing provider through Louis Vuitton. The artistic director and stylist chosen for Brigitte was Nicolas Ghesquière, whom Owens identifies as the main promoter of transgenderism and androgyny in the fashion world. According to Out magazine, Ghesquière deliberately hires trans models and has launched the careers of numerous transgender models throughout the fashion industry.

Xavier Niel has his own checkered past. In the 1980s, he helped develop a chat service dedicated to cybersex that became lucrative. He later became part owner of a chain of peep shows, one of which was found to be a front for a prostitution ring. In 2004, he was arrested on charges of aggravated pimping, though those charges were later dismissed. Poussard's book notes that Niel's storage service has been described by the Canadian Centre for Child Protection as "the largest source of child sexual abuse images."

Mimi Marchand's Criminal History and Victory Photo

Niel and Marchand met through a shared lawyer, as both have checkered pasts. Marchand racked up a string of suspended prison sentences in the 1980s and spent two years behind bars awaiting trial over her involvement with a gangster boyfriend. She was eventually not convicted, and Niel gave her money to save Best Image. In 1998, she received another three-year suspended sentence related to another former boyfriend's drug dealing operation. In 2024, Niel again saved her photo agency.

Just over a year after Macron was inaugurated as President of France, Mimi Marchand had a photo taken of herself in the presidential office making a V for victory sign with her hands—celebrating their success in fooling the public about Brigitte.

The Billionaire's Son and Child Pornography Convictions

Shortly after that victory photo, Brigitte and Emmanuel carefully pulled away from Mimi Marchand because she was involved in another scandal. Mimi shares a mutual friend with Brigitte—billionaire Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière. Marc is so close to Brigitte that they attended the premiere of the show "Starmania" together, produced by Thomas Jolly. This was the same Thomas Jolly whom Brigitte handpicked to direct the Olympic opening ceremony.

The problem was that Marc's son Jeremy had a deeply troubled history. Jeremy, former manager of a children's entertainment company, was twice convicted of child pornography—once in 2008 and once in 2015. Mimi had done her friend Marc a favor by keeping Jeremy's name and face out of the press. In 2024, after the mother of his children (aged three and one) went through his computer and summoned police out of fear, investigators collected 4,000 images of naked children being raped. For this, Jeremy received only eight months, and that sentence was suspended.

Mimi's role in covering up Jeremy's 2015 conviction was a bad look for the presidential couple, so they began distancing themselves from her. When a book called "The Book of Mimi" was published in October 2018, it became clear she was no longer welcome at the Élysée Palace Thursday meetings.

The Closer Magazine Bombshell

When a PR person feels burned, they drop bombs in the press. An explosion appeared in Closer magazine about Brigitte Macron being spotted at the entrance to the American Hospital in Paris reportedly for cosmetic surgery under general anesthesia. Brigitte publicly condemned Closer for invasion of privacy—yet a year earlier, Express magazine had similarly revealed her undergoing surgery with Dr. Sydney Ohana, and Brigitte hadn't cared at all.

Journalist Xavier Poussard found this overreaction odd. He poured over the Closer article trying to understand what set her off. He found it: while Closer hadn't named the surgeon, they left a massive clue, describing him as an "eminent and media-savvy plastic surgeon who would keenly quote Victor Hugo, his favorite expression: 'Woman's flesh, ideal clay.'"

There was only one surgeon featured in the press with that quotation—Dr. Patrick Bui, a plastic surgeon at the American Hospital in Paris. Why was this a bombshell? In France, Patrick Bui is known most eminently for feminization surgery—he is the king of transgender feminization surgery to soften facial features for men transitioning to women.

If any question remained about whether Bui was being used by Brigitte Macron, it was answered in 2023 when Emmanuel Macron awarded Dr. Patrick Bui with the French Legion of Honor, a high distinction equivalent to America's Medal of Freedom.

The Official Story Begins Falling Apart

Owens explains that the perfectly curated idea of Brigitte's background—sold without pictures—began falling apart when a couple of photos were released showing Brigitte during her alleged "pinup doll" teaching years. Instead of the Claudia Schiffer-type beauty in short skirts that media described, the photos showed someone in baggy suits who didn't look like someone teenagers would fall over themselves for.

Reading the Second Legal Letter in Full

Owens then reads the entirety of the second legal letter received from the Macrons' U.S. legal team. The letter expresses disappointment in Owens' January 16, 2025 response to their December 3, 2024 letter. It accuses Owens of doubling down on defamatory allegations and expanding the scope of defamation.

The letter claims "most egregiously" that on January 13, 2025, Owens "falsely implied that the Macrons were responsible for the death of a journalist investigating them." Owens clarifies she never said the Macrons assassinated journalist Isabelle Fera—she stated facts: Fera was working on the story, had messaged friends saying she had a bombshell about Emmanuel Macron and Brigitte, was found dead floating in a river, and that French press reported she drowned while friends said she wasn't suicidal.

The letter accuses Owens of stating the Macrons "admitted Mrs. Macron statutorily raped President Macron" in their December 3rd letter. Owens counters that the Macrons admitted for the first time in writing that their ages were 39 and 15, which constitutes an admission of statutory rape under French law at that time, as there could be no consent when an adult had authority over a child. Owens asserts the ages were actually 39 and 14.

The letter continues accusing Owens of "recklessness" and relying on "facially unreliable sources to perpetuate an inherently improbable conspiracy theory." It criticizes her for profiting from these claims and mentions she would start reselling a "man of the year" t-shirt mocking Mrs. Macron.

Regarding Owens calling Emmanuel Macron a "psychopath," the letter argues this cannot be rhetorical hyperbole because Owens claims to believe what she says and cites research. It states that claiming to expose truth supported by research means no reasonable listener could believe she was engaging in rhetorical hyperbole.

The letter also addresses Owens' statements about Satanism, arguing that "a defamation claim premised in part on Miss Owens's false claims that the Macrons are involved with a satanic cult does not implicate any religious belief where no such group even exists." The lawyers demand Owens preserve all emails, text messages, and audio-visual recordings.

Owens' Response: Answer the Core Question

Throughout her response, Owens repeatedly emphasizes one point: the legal letters never address the central claim. Nowhere do the Macrons simply state that Brigitte Macron was born a biological female. They don't assert that Brigitte gave birth to three children. They don't answer the 21 questions Owens sent them. Instead, they nitpick peripheral issues—colorization of photos, calling Emmanuel a psychopath, discussing Satanism.

Owens offered to fly to France any time before March to conduct an on-record interview so Brigitte could respond herself. The offer was ignored. She points out that when Algerian press referred to Macron as a "homosexual psychopath," he didn't sue them. Many people have called Macron psychopathic without being sued, but now he's coming after an American journalist in Tennessee.

Regarding Satanism, Owens stands firm in her Christian beliefs that satanic cults exist and that the Olympic ceremony was satanic—a view shared by many. She notes that even main participant Barbara Butch, a lesbian at the center of that ceremony, laughed about the New Testament in her Instagram story before pulling it down. Owens refuses to retract statements about Satanism because it would violate her right to practice her religion.

She characterizes the legal strategy as one of intimidation—threatening defamation lawsuits over calling someone a psycho while never addressing whether Brigitte Macron is a biological male who transitioned. This is the same pattern the Macrons have used against French reporters, winning defamation cases on technicalities like misidentifying someone in a photo, then having their controlled media rush to print that they won, without mentioning it was never about the core claim.

A Call for Radical Transparency

Owens concludes by thanking Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron for promoting the series through their reaction, which she characterizes as "crying like little babies publicly." She believes in radical transparency and views her audience as friends and concerned citizens who have a right to know who is running countries.

She expresses deep concern about who is running France, their ties to American media, and that most people are just hearing about this story. She asks viewers to support independent journalism at CandaceOwens.com through gifts or merchandise purchases, acknowledging the tremendous risk involved but stating it's necessary to protect children from people she believes are predatory. She makes clear her belief that Brigitte Macron was and is a predator—someone manipulating the press, manipulating courtrooms, manipulating journalists, and trying to shut down speech.

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