India, May 14 -- Iranian-born actress Golshifteh Farahani has found herself at the center of a major political scandal after a new book claimed she exchanged messages with French President Emmanuel Macron and the messages that allegedly led his wife Brigitte to slap him during a foreign trip last year.

Journalist Florian Tardif, in his book "An (Almost) Perfect Couple," claimed that Brigitte who is 73, read a message from Farahani on her husband's phone moments before the now-viral incident as the couple prepared to disembark their plane in Hanoi, Vietnam, according to the New York Post. However, both Farahani and Brigitte's representatives have denied the claims.

Here is what you need to know about the actress:

As per the New York Pos...