France’s First Lady, Brigitte Macron, was stunned to discover her government tax profile altered to identify her as a man — ‘Jean-Michel, known as Brigitte Macron’. What began as an apparent prank is only one step into what has spiralled into cross-border lawsuits that now span from Paris to Delaware courts
France’s First Lady Brigitte Macron recently discovered that her official tax profile had been manipulated to identify her as a man.
According to her chief of staff, Tristan Bromet, the modification appeared in a secure area of the government’s online tax portal — one that ordinary users cannot alter.
The 72-year-old spouse of French President Emmanuel Macron was logging into her account when she noticed her name had been changed to “Jean-Michel, known as Brigitte Macron.”
The discovery, Bromet revealed, left both of them “completely surprised.”