Strauss-Kahn
# strauss-kahn - Monday 10 December, 2012
Strauss-Kahn settles with maid over sexual assault allegation
A court in New York has heard that the former head of the IMF has reached an undisclosed financial settlement with the hotel maid who accused him of sexual assault last year.
# strauss-kahn - Friday 30 November, 2012
DSK to make out-of-court settlement with maid over ‘sex assault’ – reports
A hotel maid accused the former head of the IMF of sexually assaulting her in his room at the Sofitel hotel in New York last year.
# strauss-kahn - Wednesday 28 November, 2012
French court delays Strauss-Kahn sex charge ruling
A French appeals court will delay a decision on whether to drop pimping charges against the former IMF chief until December.
# strauss-kahn - Tuesday 1 May, 2012
NYC court to rule today on Strauss-Kahn lawsuit
Judge to decide if hotel maid’s lawsuit should be dismissed.
# strauss-kahn - Sunday 19 February, 2012
Strauss-Khan to be questioned over alleged links to ‘prostitution ring’
The former head of the IMF faces questions over his alleged links to a prostitution ring in northern France.
# strauss-kahn - Thursday 8 December, 2011
Watch: leaked Strauss-Kahn surveillance footage adds to mystery
The footage has been aired less than fortnight after suggestions that the former head of the IMF was the target of a political plot when he was accused of sexual assault in a New York hotel in May.
# strauss-kahn - Monday 28 November, 2011
Sarkozy’s party denies new claims that Strauss-Kahn was set-up
The denial comes following the emergence of new details in the case which forced the one-time French presidential favourite to resign earlier this year.
# strauss-kahn - Friday 18 November, 2011
More revelations about Dominique Strauss-Kahn
A high-class prostitute claims to have intimate knowledge of the former head of the International Monetary Fund.
# strauss-kahn - Thursday 29 September, 2011
Strauss-Kahn comes face-to-face with French rape accuser
Investigators questioned the former IMF chief and Tristane Banon to help them decide whether to pursue charges of attempted rape brought by the 32-year-old woman.
# strauss-kahn - Tuesday 23 August, 2011
NY judge dismisses assault charges against Strauss-Kahn
Today’s dismissal was delayed pending an appeal court ruling regarding an application for a special prosecutor.
# strauss-kahn - Sunday 21 August, 2011
Strauss-Kahn charges could be dropped ‘by Tuesday’
Prosecutors bringing charges against the former head of the IMF will ask a judge to drop the charges at a hearing this week.
# strauss-kahn - Wednesday 17 August, 2011
Lawyers clash over Strauss-Kahn “rape” report
A medical report published in a French magazine claims that hotel maid Nafi Diallo was raped. Strauss Kahn’s lawyers see it differently.
# strauss-kahn - Tuesday 9 August, 2011
The 9 at 9: Tuesday
Nine things to know this morning…
Maid sues Strauss-Kahn over hotel incident
The woman who accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault has brought a civil suit against him.
# strauss-kahn - Monday 25 July, 2011
DSK maid goes public with her story
Nafissatou Diallo claims that former IMF chief Dominique Strauss Kahn forced her to perform oral sex and ripped off her tights when she came to clean his hotel room.
# strauss-kahn - Tuesday 19 July, 2011
Take 5: Tuesday
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’ clock.
Strauss-Kahn ‘had sex with rape accuser’s mother’
The former head of the IMF is facing more accusations.
# strauss-kahn - Sunday 17 July, 2011
Dominique Strauss Kahn ‘was on a sex binge in New York’
The former head of the IMF is reported to have bedded three women prior to being arrested and charged with attempted rape.
# strauss-kahn - Tuesday 12 July, 2011
Strauss-Kahn court date postponed until August
Prosecutors want the entire sex assault case against the former head of the IMF to be dropped.
# strauss-kahn - Friday 8 July, 2011
Take 5: Friday
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock.
# strauss-kahn - Tuesday 5 July, 2011
New York prosecutors ‘to drop’ Strauss-Kahn charges – report
The New York Post says DA sources will drop their case, because DSK’s alleged victim is not credible.
# strauss-kahn - Monday 4 July, 2011
Strauss-Kahn ‘refused to pay prostitute maid for sex’ – report
A US report claims that the hotel maid involved in the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case tried to solicit the former IMF head.
# strauss-kahn - Saturday 2 July, 2011
Strauss-Kahn allies open to his involvement in 2012 election
If rape charges are dropped, can the ex-IMF director return to France to run against President Nicolas Sarkozy next year?
# strauss-kahn - Friday 1 July, 2011
The 9 at 9: Friday
In today’s 9 at 9: Some good news as VAT is lowered; a twist in the Strauss-Kahn case; new developments in the Race for the Áras; and who is a “snotty Miss Fancy Pants”?
New twists in Strauss-Kahn case
The maid who accused the IMF boss of a violent sex attack is now being described as a “flawed witness”
# strauss-kahn - Friday 17 June, 2011
Strauss-Kahn asked for eggs and a sandwich after his arrest
Details of the events prior to and after the former head of the IMF’s arrest have emerged in prosecutor documents.
# strauss-kahn - Monday 30 May, 2011
Embattled Strauss-Kahn assembles crisis team to fight back against rape allegations
The former IMF head’s team includes PR gurus and private investigators as he looks to fight allegations of attempted rape in the US and rebuild his reputation back in France.
# strauss-kahn - Saturday 21 May, 2011
Strauss-Kahn out of prison and into luxury apartment building near ground zero
The former IMF chief will temporarily stay at an apartment block near the site of the 9/11 attacks and the former home of disgraced financier Bernie Madoff but neighbours there don’t seem too pleased about his arrival.
# strauss-kahn - Friday 20 May, 2011
Strauss-Kahn to leave Rikers today after securing $1m bail
Former head of the IMF must remain confined at his wife’s New York apartment under armed guard until trial for sexual assault and attempted rape.
# strauss-kahn - Wednesday 18 May, 2011
Strauss-Kahn’s lawyers deny any “forcible encounter” with woman over sex assault charges
The IMF chief is still under pressure to resign from his post, as the US Treasury Secretary joins calls for him to leave the organisation.
# strauss-kahn - Tuesday 17 May, 2011
Take 5: Tuesday
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock.
Pressure mounting on Dominique Strauss-Kahn to resign IMF post
Calls for head of the IMF to resign following allegations made against him of sexual assault in New York at the weekend.
# strauss-kahn - Monday 16 May, 2011
IMF head Strauss-Kahn denied bail by court on rape charges
Despite offering $1m bail from his wife’s account and offering to wear an electronic tag, Dominique Strauss-Kahn is jailed until Friday.
Take 5: Monday
5 stories, 5 minutes, 5 o’clock.
Euro hits six-week low against dollar following Strauss-Kahn arrest
The single currency fell briefly before trading up by mid-morning on the London Stock Exchange.
Noonan in Brussels for summit of EU finance ministers
The Minister for Finance heads to the Belgian capital today but is not expected to make any significant progress on the terms of Ireland’s bailout package as Greece, Strauss-Kahn and Portugal dominate the agenda.
# strauss-kahn - Sunday 15 May, 2011
IMF head charged with attempted rape following sexual assault allegations
Dominique Strauss-Kahn was pulled from an airplane moments before he was to fly to Paris, after a New York chamber maid told police he had sexually assaulted her in his hotel suite.






















































