Irish Independent

Macron’s wife stops bogus use of name to sell anti-wrinkle cream

- Henry Samuel

BRIGITTE MACRON, the French ‘first lady’, has ordered lawyers to investigat­e complaints that con artists used her name and face to sell anti-wrinkle cream and even claimed she had a stake in the “revolution­ary” product.

Ms Macron (65) launched the legal action after receiving dozens of complaints from people who bought face cream from a website that wrongly claimed she was its muse, according to ‘Le Parisien’. It also suggested she had a share in the product but could not say so for political reasons.

The advertisin­g on the website claimed it had “an anti-wrinkle solution that could change the skin treatment industry forever!”

As proof of its revolution­ary breakthrou­gh, the ‘Beauty and Truth’ website reportedly illustrate­d its claims with pictures of Ms Macron, sometimes dubbed the French Jane Fonda and whose husband, president Emmanuel Macron, is 25 years her junior.

One of the duped customers, Anne-Marie (68), told ‘Le Parisien’: “It said that Ms Macron was associated to the company and (Barack Obama’s wife) and (Carla) Bruni (the wife of Nicolas Sarkozy, the former French president) are good customers. I said to myself it must be serious.” The website supported its claims with false newspaper articles, including one headlined: “Exclusive: Brigitte Macron reveals her secret and sponsors call for her resignatio­n.”

Ms Macron has become a style icon, with aides recently telling ‘The Daily Telegraph’: “Many women in their sixties or seventies write to Brigitte to say: ‘Merci, thank you because I didn’t know it was possible, thank you because I didn’t dare wear that sort of dress, thank you for showing one can still seduce at 65.’”

Speaking recently to ‘Elle France’, Ms Macron said: “Of course, we have breakfast together, me and my wrinkles, him with his youth, but it’s like that. If I did not make that choice, I would have missed out on my life.”

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