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French first lady Brigitte Macron to take libel case to highest court of appeals

Brigitte Macron is not backing down in her legal battle against two women who have claimed the French first lady was born a man. Her lawyer said on Monday she would take the case to France's highest court of appeals.

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00:00Brigitte Macron is not backing down in her legal battle against two women who have claimed the French First Lady was born a man.
00:08Last week, a Paris appeals court overturned earlier convictions that found the two women guilty of spreading false claims.
00:16The court ruled that they had acted in good faith and quashed a previous order for them to pay damages.
00:22Macron's lawyer said on Monday that she would now take the case to the highest court of appeals.
00:27Macron, seen here during a recent visit to the United Kingdom, filed a libel case against the pair over a 2021 YouTube video
00:35where they claimed that she used to be a man named Jean-Michel Tourneur.
00:40Tourneur is actually Macron's brother.
00:43The video of spiritualist Amandine Roy and independent journalist Natasha Ray discussing gender transition surgery
00:51and personal details of Tourneur went viral, prompting Macron to sue for defamation and invasion of privacy.
01:0072-year-old Macron has been the target of several conspiracy theories,
01:04often centred around the 24-year age gap between her and her husband, Emmanuel Macron.

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