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Dominique Strauss-Kahn seeks damages over publication of photos with his girlfriend
Lawyers for disgraced ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn and a woman named as his new girlfriend sought damages in court Tuesday from two French magazines for publishing “stolen photographs” of them together. The magazines named in the suit are VSD and Closer, which had published photographs of Strauss-Kahn and Myriam L’Aouffir…
Dominique Strauss-Kahn: ‘Leave me alone!’
Disgraced former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has pleaded to be left alone and says he is facing a “media assault” in an interview with French weekly Le Point. “I have never been convicted, not in (France) nor in any other country,” he said in the interview, due to appear on…
French prosecutors drop charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn
French prosecutors dropped a rape investigation Tuesday against former International Monetary Fund chair Dominique Strauss-Kahn. The Associated Press reports that the key witness withdrew her testimony and now says no rape was involved in a December 2010 encounter with Strauss-Kahn in Washington D.C. Strauss-Kahn and three other men were accused…
Strauss-Kahn seeks dismissal of pimping charges
Lawyers for Dominique Strauss-Kahn on Wednesday asked a French appeal court to dismiss charges that the disgraced former IMF chief helped procure prostitutes for sex parties. The court in the northern town of Douai deferred a ruling until November 28 after a closed-door hearing, lawyers said. Strauss-Kahn admits attending orgies…
DSK has new girlfriend
Disgraced ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has a new girlfriend who works for a well-known television channel, glossy French weekly VSD said Friday, printing photographs of the two together. His new love interest was a “bubbly 40-something” with a “senior job in a big television chain”, it said and identified her…
French soft drink makers unveil ‘DSK’ aphrodisiac beverage
A fizzy drink with alleged aphrodisiac qualities carrying the initials of disgraced IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn will hit French night clubs this summer, its makers said. The Drink Safran Kiwi (DSK, or Saffron Kiwi Drink), to be sold in Paris and the French Riviera, is geared towards “the in-crowd, night…
DSK and wife sue French magazine for claiming they’ve separated
Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn and his wife Anne Sinclair said Friday they would sue French celebrity magazine Closer for invading their privacy with a story claiming they had separated. “Having taken note of the cover and content of celebrity magazineCloser, Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Anne Sinclair have decided to sue this publication for invasion of…
Strauss-Kahn faces gang rape accusation
File photo of former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn. French prosecutors on Monday opened a preliminary investigation into accusations that disgraced ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn took part in a gang rape in the United States. (AFP Photo/Richard Drew) File photo of former IMF head Dominique … French prosecutors on Monday opened…
Strauss-Kahn files $1 million suit against NY maid
Disgraced ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has filed a $1 million countersuit against the New York hotel maid at the center of last year’s explosive sexual assault allegations, a report said Tuesday. A year after the scandal broke, the former French Socialist party presidential hopeful accused the maid, Nafissatou Diallo, of “knowingly and intentionally making a false…
Rapists rape because they like raping (The Dominique Strauss Kahn example)
If you have been keeping track, today marks the third time in just over a year that former International Monetary Fund president Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been legally accused of rape — which does not include claims in a French book that he previous raped a maid in a Mexican hotel…
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