{"id":794399,"date":"2026-05-13T22:20:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T22:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/794399\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T22:20:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T22:20:20","slug":"macron-allies-deny-brigitte-slapped-french-president-over-texts-with-iranian-actress-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/794399\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron allies deny Brigitte slapped French president over texts with Iranian actress \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rtl.fr\/actu\/politique\/une-dispute-assez-consequente-un-journaliste-auteur-d-une-enquete-sur-le-couple-macron-donne-sa-version-de-la-gifle-donnee-par-brigitte-macron-a-son-epoux-7900634187\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">on RTL radio on Wednesday<\/a>, Tardif alleged that President Macron maintained a \u201cplatonic relationship\u201d with Farahani for several months. However, some exchanges \u2014 which Tardif said he was forwarded by people close to Macron \u2014 \u201cwent quite far,\u201d the journalist said. <\/p>\n<p>Tardif said one message sent to Farahani said: \u201cI find you very attractive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2264628495-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8432003\"  \/>Golshifteh Farahani attends the Grand D\u00eener du Louvre at Musee du Louvre on March 3, 2026 in Paris. | Aurore Marechal\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The Elys\u00e9e, which initially called the reports of the slap fake news and later dismissed the incident as \u201chorseplay,\u201d has not given an official response. An individual close to the French president, also granted anonymity to discuss the matter, said Brigitte Macron\u2019s team denies the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>President Macron himself said last year the ordeal had been blown out of proportion and he was \u201cjoking with [his] wife.\u201d Still, however, the incident attracted much media attention worldwide. Even U.S. President Donald Trump joked about it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/france-emmanuel-macron-us-donald-trumps-mixed-signals-undermine-nato-credibility\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">last month<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Farahani has previously shot down rumors of a relationship with Macron but has not publicly commented on the allegations in Tardif\u2019s book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking on RTL radio on Wednesday, Tardif alleged that President Macron maintained a \u201cplatonic relationship\u201d with Farahani for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":794400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1022,180943,69,8703,156,26450,398,611,50,67,15336,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-794399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-brigitte-macron","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-emmanuel-macron","12":"tag-france","13":"tag-macron","14":"tag-media","15":"tag-mobile","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-vietnam","19":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116569600318356183","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}