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."

• IMF chief's apartment searched in French compensation case

  French authorities searched the Paris apartment of IMF chief Christine Lagarde on Wednesday in an investigation into her award of a 2008 arbitration payment to a businessman supporter of former president Nicolas Sarkozy, her lawyer said.

• 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 ...