Strauss-kahn Case

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  Harvey Weinstein's Attorney Ben Brafman Could Face "Impossible" Task: Lawyers

  After sexual assault charges were dropped against former International Monetary Fund Chairman Dominique Strauss-Kahn in 2011, his lawyer Ben Brafman assailed the accuser's credibility, telling Reuters: "This encounter was quick, it was consensual and she was a willing participant."

• Dominique Strauss-Kahn seeks end to sex-case damages case

  Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn sought to close a key chapter in the sex scandals that destroyed his career by sealing a financial agreement with a maid who accused him of sexual assault.

• US court hearing set in Dominique Strauss-Kahn civil lawsuit

  Former International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn and the hotel maid who accused him of sexual assault will appear in New York state court next week to brief a judge on the status of settlement talks in the maid's civil case against him.

• New York judge rejects Strauss-Kahn's appeal for diplomatic immunity

  Former International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn must face a civil trial over an alleged sex assault in New York, a New York judge ruled on Tuesday, rejecting his last ditch attempt to claim diplomatic immunity.

• Strauss-Kahn claims immunity in US sex case

  Allegations in the civil suit are much the same as the criminal charges initially lodged against Mr Strauss-Kahn: that Ms Diallo went to clean his luxury hotel suite and found herself being chased, then assaulted by its naked occupant.

• Strauss-Kahn to be questioned in prostitution case

  Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn will be questioned on Tuesday by French police investigating a suspected hotel prostitution ring.

• French prosecutor drops Strauss-Kahn case

  The Paris prosecutor's office has dropped an investigation into a French writer's claim that Dominique Strauss-Kahn tried to rape her, for lack of sufficient proof.

• Strauss-Kahn denies violence in sex assault case

  Dominique Strauss-Kahn broke his silence four months after a New York hotel maid accused him of sexual assault, calling his encounter with the woman a "moral failing" he deeply regrets, but insisting in an interview on French television Sunday that no violence was involved.

• Dominique Strauss-Kahn heads back to France

  Former chief of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Dominique Strauss-Kahn, cleared security at a New York airport before boarding a flight headed to France, after sensational sexual assault charges against him were dropped.

• New York prosecutors to drop Strauss-Kahn case

  For all that had been revealed as prosecutors moved on Monday to drop their sexual assault case against former International Monetary Fund (IMF) leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn, they said they couldn't answer the central question: what happened between him and a maid in his luxurious hotel suite.

• Housekeeper sues Strauss-Kahn over New York hotel encounter

  A hotel housekeeper who accuses ex-International Monetary Fund boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault sued him Monday over what she calls a "violent and sadistic" attack in an upscale suite that left her life "in shambles."Lawyers for the housekeeper, Guinean immigrant Nafissatou Diallo, wrote in the lawsuit that Strauss-Kahn "intentionally,...

• Maid breaks silence, tells her story about Stauss-Kahn

  The hotel maid accusing Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexually assaulting her in a Manhattan hotel room shattered her silence on Sunday, saying in a published report that the former International Monetary Fund leader grabbed and attacked her as she implored him to stop.

• Writer sues Strauss-Kahn, says he grabbed her, ripped off her clothes

  A young French author has formally accused former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of attempted rape, breaking her long public silence with a dramatic account of fending off an attacker who ripped at her clothes as they fought on his apartment floor.Tristane Banon's criminal complaint, which was filed Tuesday, was already sp...

• Now, French writer accuses Strauss-Kahn of attempted rape

  A French novelist will file a criminal complaint on Tuesday accusing Dominique Strauss-Kahn of attempted rape, her lawyer said, throwing fresh uncertainty into a fierce national debate about whether the former International Monetary Fund chief can return to his country's presidential race. The political world was hit by a new shock when the lawyer ...

• Shaky case against Strauss-Kahn once seemed so solid

  A hotel housekeeper whose account of being sexually attacked was so compelling that it brought tears to the eyes of seasoned investigators. Preliminary forensic and electronic evidence, as well as interviews with witnesses, that poked no immediate holes in her story. And an accused man, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, with a ticket for a flight to France, ...