His career collapsed after his arrest last year on accusations he sexually assaulted a New York hotel maid. The charges were eventually dropped but Strauss-Kahn has since faced a series of criminal and civil actions in connection with alleged sex crimes.
The hotel maid, Nafissatou Diallo, has launched a civil suit against Strauss-Kahn in New York seeking unspecified damages, while he has in turn filed a countersuit for malicious prosecution and defamation.
In France, Strauss-Kahn, two businessmen and a police chief were in March charged with "aggravated pimping in an organised gang" for allegedly organising a prostitution ring for orgies in France, the United States and elsewhere. French prosecutors have also opened a preliminary investigation into accusations he took part in a gang rape in the United States.
Daily newsletter Receive essential international news every morning. Take international news everywhere with you! They were quite harsh and rude. When I went out they followed me and I felt it was like an aggression.
Her parents took her back to France as a toddler. Until the events of three years ago, she remembered New York with great affection. The charges against Strauss-Kahn were finally dismissed in August after prosecutors lost faith in the credibility of his accuser.
It was a nasty fracas nonetheless — and, back in France, a steady stream of rumour started to emerge that this was not the first time Strauss-Kahn had been seriously indiscreet.
Sinclair divorced him in June amid suspicions that Strauss-Kahn had been involved in a prostitution ring. For months, Sinclair was the unfortunate casualty of the whole affair: caught up in relentless media attention and a confrontation of difficult truths about her marriage to a man who, despite it all, she had loved for more than 20 years.
How, I ask her, did she get through it? It was really painful. But although she is trying to move on, events have a habit of reminding her. I want to have a limit on my private life and fortunately my private life is private once again. I already told you: it was painful. We leave it there. In France, Sinclair is a respected and renowned journalist who, for 13 years between and , hosted 7 sur 7 — one of the most popular primetime chat shows on French television.
It was also where she first met Strauss-Kahn, whom she interviewed in I wanted to be a journalist. She studied politics at the elite Sciences Po the Paris Institute of Political Studies before graduating in law from the University of Paris and then working as a radio presenter for Europe 1.
In the s, she moved into television. It was a deeply sexist environment. But at that time, when your son had a little fever, it was you who were split all the time between work and home. In the media frenzy that followed, it emerged he had had up to ten separate affairs during his marriage. He confessed to regularly attending orgies and admitted he was addicted to his swingers' lifestyle.
Sinclair said she did not know about the many affairs and orgies Strauss-Khan would attend - but admitted she had been in a state of denial.
Strauss-Khan faced a series of allegations of sexual assault. French journalist Tristane Banon accused Strauss-Khan of trying to rape her in a flat in a Paris in but the charges were later dropped. In , Strauss-Kahn found himself at the heart of another sex scandal after he was accused of procuring prostitutes for a prostitution ring in northern France. It emerged that the financial experts loved to attend sex parties with women and alcohol, organised by the Press Relations Officer for the Cartlon hotel in Lille, France.
He was tried in France for allegedly procuring women for the orgies and was later acquitted. But this was the final straw for Sinclair. The Sofitel was one thing in its excess. The whole world was spying on us. It was crazy,' she said. Sinclair added that in her husband was not excited about potentially being elected president.
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