An appeals court in France refused to drop prostitution-related claims against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, which means his legal troubles are not yet finished after more than a year of sexual scandals.
A judge announced that Dominique Strauss-Kahn and his accuser, Nafissatou Diallo, have reached a settlement, marking the legal end of DSK's civil case. With exact details remaining confidential (at the moment), we're now firmly in the specuguessing phase.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn just got one big step closer to not having any outstanding legal problems Thursday evening. He finally settled things with the maid from the Sofitel hotel.
After three years on the market and one infamous tenant, a Russian buyer has scooped up the Tribeca townhouse Dominique Strauss Khan rented for $60,000 a month while under house arrest for a cool $10.5 million, which was around $600,000 more than its most recent asking price.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn dodged rape allegations for the second (third?) time in a year when French prosecutors today stopped pursuing charges he allegedly raped a prostitute in a Washington hotel room. Unfortunately for DSK, he's still got a small list of sex scandals on his plate.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn finally got himself some positive news coverage in France, and he did it the way he frequently gets into the headlines: By getting involved with a woman. But it's different this time.
After more than a year of her husband being embroiled in sex scandal after sex scandal, Anne Sinclair is finally leaving Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn may face justice for allegedly raping a woman in the United States after all, even though no U.S. law enforcement agency will pursue it.
What does a person do when they're angry about something that happened, something they may not be accepting full accountability for, something they may deny altogether? Sometimes, they play the victim card.
What a difference a year makes. On the same day François Hollande was been sworn in as France's President, disgraced ex-IMF chief, possible pimp and alleged gang rape participant Dominique Strauss Khan is suing the Manhattan hotel chamber maid who accused him of sexually assaulting her.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn had been hoping his legal entanglements in the United States would end on Tuesday when a Bronx judge decided whether to accept his argument that diplomatic immunity protected him from a lawsuit, but the judge did no such thing.
So far, Dominique Strauss-Kahn has primarily left the job of speculating about whether he was set up on charges of attempted rape to others, but in an interview with The Guardian, he established just how paranoid he is about that.
The city of Lille, France, is shocked—shocked!—to learn that prostitutes may have been operating out of its beloved Hotel Carlton, the once-discreet destination now synonymous with the case that saw Dominique Strauss-Kahn accused of aggravated pimping.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn has not had very good luck giving speeches in Europe since his return from New York, but he's finally mastered the security protocols necessary to get through one in Ukraine.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been charged with "aggravated pimping" in connection with an alleged prostitution ring in the so-called Carlton Affair in France.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn is set to speak at the European Parliament in about a week, but in an echo of his Cambridge appearance, several lawmakers objected to his even being allowed inside the building, showing his return to European political life is not happening.
The Cambridge Union Society has been silent in the face of protests over its decision to host Dominique Strauss-Kahn as a speaker, but on Thursday it finally gave an explanation: The U.K. club claims it invited Strauss-Kahn to speak way back in early 2010, and finally landed him.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn may have lost his shot at the French presidency, but after months of legal troubles, including his two-day stint in a French jail this week, there are still people who want to hear the former International Monetary Fund director speak about things other than his sex life.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn is due to leave French police custody early, but he's not out of trouble yet as the investigation into whether he participated in procuring prostitutes for what he called in his autobiography "libertine parties" continues.
As Dominique Strauss-Kahn faces questioning on French charges he abetted pimping, some of the women allegedly hired to entertain him shared details of their jaunts to Washington, D.C. for what Strauss-Kahn called in his recent autobiography "libertine soirees."
Dominique Strauss-Kahn may have avoided criminal charges after sexual assault accusation in the United States, but he's now facing a different set of troubles thanks to his involvement in another scandal back in home country.
New York City hotel operators have agreed to a contract with the city's hotel union that gives housekeepers and other hotel employees personal panic buttons to notify security if they run into trouble in a guest's room.
Anne Sinclair has been named editor of the Huffington Post's French franchise, and though she's an experienced journalist, a lot of her French colleagues think she gave up that mantle when she defended her husband, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, last year.
This was a great year for bad news, whether you're a crime buff, a lover of disaster porn, or just a run-of-the-mill gawker.
You knew there would have to be a Dominique Strauss-Kahn movie, right? Whether the scandal works its way into fiction as primarily a cop film, a political thriller, a legal drama, or something else is still an open question, but at least we now have an idea how it will look and feel: Gritty and hard.
A compilation of Sofitel Hotel surveillance videos found their way to French television station BFMTV, showing Dominique Strauss-Kahn checking out of the hotel on May 14 as well as his accuser, Nafissatou Diallo, apparently reporting his alleged sexual assault to hotel managers.
The lawyers for Dominique Strauss-Kahn accuser Nafissatou Diallo have said little to the U.S. press since his biography suggested the encounter between him and Diallo was consensual, but they're claiming they've learned of a key witness who they say visited Strauss-Kahn's hotel room -- if they could only find her.
With his Dominique Strauss-Kahn biography due out on Thursday, Michel Taubmann has been chatty with the French press, spilling what just may be the closest we'll ever get to Strauss-Kahn's version of what happened in room 2806 of the Sofitel Hotel on May 14.
The former IMF head and French presidential hopeful is implicated in a prostitution inquiry, but he proclaims his innocence.
Only days after a rape complaint was dismissed, the former IMF chief's lawyer denies the report
The exonerated former-IMF chief told authorities he "tried to take her in my arms"
Paris Prosecutors dismiss accusation against the former IMF chief
The 6,800 square foot TriBeCa house is just had its price cut to $12.5 million
The writer who's accused the former IMF chief of attempted rape met at a police station
Strauss-Kahn's response to a civil suit from his attacker does not claim the encounter never happened
The former IMF chief claims he's immune to the under international law
Realtors say Strauss-Kahn's presence won't affect the price of his Georgetown house
Plus: Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake continue their reunion tour in Colorado
DSK makes his return to IMF offices and is welcomed back with open arms
Plus: English dogs don't know how they lived before discovering yoga
Victims' advocates predict a chilling effect on future prosecutions
His food habits have been a source of fascination for the press, rightly or not
It isn't a perp walk, but it's almost as bad
What may be Strauss-Kahn's final criminal hearing gets underway with a blow to Diallo's camp
Some in the media were offended as feminists while others were offended by feminists
DSK will escape criminal charges, but the version of events prosecutors confirmed is unsettling
Filing comes after short meeting with Nafissatou Diallo and her lawyers
Our overview gets you ready for the next big news in this closely watched prosecution
Diallo's lawyers claim that the Manhattan attorney general's office leaked false information
The hotel maid 'feels abandoned by the Manhattan district attorney'
The unnamed sources say Kenneth Thompson sought a cash settlement for his client
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