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Subscribe to RSSDominique Strauss-Kahn is suing the hotel housekeeper who accused him of sexually assaulting her, saying she seriously damaged his reputation with what he calls a bogus allegation.
The former International Monetary Fund leader struck back at maid Nafissatou Diallo's lawsuit against him with a $1 million defamation claim of his own Monday, exactly a year after she told police he tried to rape her in his Manhattan hotel suite. He says whatever happened was consensual.
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He was arrested, resigned from the IMF and spent several days behind bars and three months on house arrest before prosecutors dropped the case, saying they'd lost confidence in Diallo's trustworthiness because she'd lied about her background and changed her account of what she did right after leaving Strauss-Kahn's room. Although prosecutors didn't say they believed she misrepresented the encounter itself, Strauss-Kahn's court papers blast her claims as intentional lies.
"As a direct result of her malicious and wanton false accusation, Mr. Strauss-Kahn suffered ... substantial harm to his professional and personal reputation in the United States and throughout the world," says his Bronx court filing, written by attorneys William W. Taylor III, Hugh Campbell and others.
Strauss-Kahn's suit was submitted two weeks after the same court rejected his argument that diplomatic immunity should shield him from Diallo's suit, a ruling he may yet appeal.
Diallo's lawyers said Strauss-Kahn's defamation claim an example of the "misogynistic attitude" of a man who now faces preliminary charges of being involved in a hotel prostitution ring in France.
As of last week, French investigators were also examining accusations that Strauss-Kahn may have been involved in a rape during a sex party in a Washington, D.C., hotel in 2010. Separately, a French writer accused him last year of having tried to rape her during a 2003 interview, an accusation prosecutors decided was too old to try. Strauss-Kahn denies all the allegations.
"As with his plea for diplomatic immunity, we are entirely confident this latest desperate ploy will be swiftly rejected," Diallo attorneys Kenneth W. Thompson and Douglas H. Wigdor wrote in an e-mail.
Diallo, now 33, says that when she arrived to clean Strauss-Kahn's suite, he abruptly chased her down, tried to yank down her pantyhose and forced her to perform oral sex. She says a ligament in her shoulder was torn, among other injuries.
The married Strauss-Kahn, 63, has acknowledged there was a sexual encounter and called it a "moral failing," but insisted it wasn't forced. His new filing says he and Diallo "engaged in mutually consensual sexual acts" and says she "suffered no injuries whatsoever."
At the time, Strauss-Kahn was considered a leading Socialist candidate to take on conservative incumbent French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Socialist Francois Hollande won the election last week.
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Finally......some justice for the guy. Who do these maids think they are?? Make the beds, take out the garbage, keep your hands off my wallet, and shutup!
I don't like this guy much but I hope he gets a favorable judgement against that gold digger.
Maybe this guy is guilty but then again he might not be. These charges have never been proved and there is a distinct possibility he was set up by his political enemies. He's also kind of old so unless he takes Viagra for breakfast everyday it's pretty unlikely he's the sexual predator he's been made out to look like..... I'm just saying.
Where is a maid going to get $1 million ?
Based on all the other things that have surfaced about this French pastry pervert, I believe her story.
He should be careful; just because he was not charged does not mean she cannot countersue him.
He should grab a Playboy and just stay in his room.
This is too funny! DSK says SHE damaged his reputation?
enough said!~
Strauss-Kahn is a sexual predator and now he is trying to victimize this woman again in court. If it were just her accusations I might believe him about being set up, however, he has been accused by numerous women of the same type of behavior so I am not buying his story. First he tried to say nothing happened and then changed his story to whatever happened a consensual. That change in story alone makes me disbelieve anything coming out of his mouth. I guess he found out she had some proof of the sexual encounter so he changed his story to try and cover himself. I would bet the million dollars he is suing for that if she agreed to drop her civil suit against him that his suit would miraculously disappear as well. This is just this @!$%# trying to intimidate her into withdrawing her civil suit now that the courts have told him he can't hide behind diplomatic immunity. The SOB belongs behind bars for all of the women he has attacked or used his position to pressure into having sex with him. There are just too many accusations against this @!$%# to believe that they are all making it up. As the saying goes - where there's smoke there's fire.
The maid was caught on a recorded phone call admitting her story was bull@!$%# and that she was trying to make money.
He is just trying to be nice to her by only hitting her up for 1 mil. This is chump change for him and his lawyers. He gladly would have payed that much to make it all go away.
This french pastry dirt bag had it coming, he did all he was accused of...hope he loses his ass...again! These type of cockroaches think they are better than everyone else.
This guy needs help. He's damaged himself, thrown away a career and status because he's a sex addict. Someone tell him that Dr. Drew can treat sex addiction. How can his wife bear all this?
I fixed it for you.
First he claimed NOTHING happened. NOW he's suing the poor woman for a MILLION DOLLARS and "His new filing says he and Diallo "engaged in mutually consensual sexual acts"
Disgusting!
He never said nothing happened. Also, what's "disgusting" about mutually consensual sex? Do you prefer rape?
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
He said she said. Who cares? I wouldn't trust either to tell the truth.
@Alan
have you SEEN him??? THAT'S what's disgusting! consensual my a$$!
@bologna sandwich... the fact that you find someone unattractive does not indicate whether someone else consented to sex with him.
He is a class A sleeze bag. Nothing like seeing the rich suing the poor to inspire hatred. I believe he was guilty of what she accused him of regardless of her confusion or misrepresentation of some details. If there is justice, he will end up in prison and be on the receiving end of this type of abuse.
he is done ...does he have to come back to the us to press the chaeges?
Barack Obama hates white people
Considering how many women have made similar allegations against this sleazebag, he has little credibility himself. I don't believe a word he says and I think he's a scum for suing her.
i agree! there is one common denominator here and it's him.
when allegations keep coming from different ladies, obviously this is par for this scum
She does not have 1 million dollar and he does not have a good reputation. What's the point anyway?
Revenge. She was caught in a recording admitting she was making up the story in order to get money out of Strauss-Kuhn. She basically ruined his political career. I don't blame him for wanting to ruin her life, too. She deserves it.
Give it up stupid.. its over.
A horny old Frog gets jungle fever and we'll be forced to hear about it for months.
His repuatation wasn't exactly squeaky-clean before all of this happened, and she certainly doesn't have the money. All this does is get his name back in the news and remind everyone of what he was accused of doing. If he had just laid low for a year or two, most people would have forgotten about it.
What an a hole this fxxxer is. How does he think he will get $1,000,000 from a hotel maid if he wins. He will probably make her work it off in a sexual manner. I wish I would be able to be on the jury because I would find in her favor and make him pay her $10,000,000,000 or make him work it off on his knees.
I hope his junk falls off.
The $1,000,000 in damages will draws against the money this woman will earn in selling the story of using a false rape claim as a weapon of extortion.
But stories like these only remind men that every sexual act should be video'd (camera phone) and include a woman's explicit verbal consent to sexual relations before and after the act.
You see how arrogant 1%ers are... This POS has the gaul to do this... He felt he has the right because he was at the time head of the IMF and was vastly wealthy... Common people are door mats to him... He had done this in the past and will do it again... Is this the way the IMF and the Federal Reserve money lenders feel about us all... He should have been tried and put in jail - but because he was a IMF leader and far wealthier than the accusor, he just walked away... His sex/rape historic reputation was exactly what this accusor said that had happened... he did it just before leaving for the airport to fly back to Europe where he would fight the accusor from there... he miscalculated and was caught before he left... but alas, money and power prevailed...
Love the pun! "This POS has the GAUL"....too funny....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaul
Regardless, this scumbag's umbrage is all about his outrage- that some lowly maid should stick up for herself after abuse by the mighty. The punishment should fit the crime...
ooh la la yet ANOTHER French PIG! imagine that..... narcississtic too. needs to be bitch slapped all the way back to France.....
Oh good heavens, can't anyone stop this man?
New York prosecutors BLEW IT big time when they did not go ahead with this case. Regardless of this woman's prior background, this man has a SOLID past history of sexually assaulting women and apparently continues to do so to this day. For some strange reason, he appears to think that your p---y is his p---y to take whenever he feels like it. I truly hope some day that some Lorena Bobbit-type comes along and whacks it off!
1ad wrote "Regardless of this woman's prior background, this man has a SOLID past history of sexually assaulting women"
Has this man ever been convicted? Why should a man's past be relevant in a prosecution but not a woman's?
Oh please, give me a break. This guy's reputation was in question way before he arrived in NY. Wasn't there a rape case filed against him in EU before the NY incident ?? Talk about arrogance ... he has no class whatsoever to go with it !
Does this maid not have a big brother who can fly to France and buy a baseball bat?!
If ever two people deserved one another, it's DSK and the million-dollar maid.
Come on, we all know it was consensual, and then she tried to get rich quick.
Let the guy alone.
Where there's smoke...there's fire.
And in this case, there's a ton of smoke.
This woman doesn't have a million dollars.
A waste of time and effort.
She shouldn't have made up any of the details (if that's what she did) but I have a difficult time feeling sorry for this guy. He sounds like a sleazebag. The woman doesn't have a million dollars. He's just suing her to try and get some of his reputation back, but this is the wrong way to go about it. He needs to shut up about the whole thing.
He is doing the correct thing : suing against future profit by the maid for selling the story.
When this first happened, I posted words to the effect that he'd find a way to hurt her for daring to stand up for herself. Here we go...even self-appointed royalty hates being challenged by the peonage.
When this story first happened, I said " Not so fast"....Something is very wrong with this story. If he did it, hang him. But lets see the facts first.
And if you are not up on the facts, it's EASY ! Follow the money ! Greece was going to get no more cash from the IMF.....so they frame this guy, make him step down, end his political career, then all of a sudden, charges are dropped because the witness lacks credibility.........Imagine that ! Traditionally, the best way to get rid of someone in a high power public position is a sex scandal. Is this guy capable of doing such a thing ? Probably. Do I think he did it ? Nope. Not for a minute !
And the Greeks got their money.......