Nafissatou Diallo

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.

Disgraced ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is countersuing the New York hotel maid whose accusation of sexual assault last year brought down his glittering political career.

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.

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.

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.

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,...

She's on a magazine cover and national television, telling her emotional and explicit story of being sexually attacked by Dominique Strauss-Kahn and pressing for him to be tried.

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.

Disgraced ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is countersuing the New York hotel maid whose accusation of sexual assault last year brought down his glittering political career.

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.

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.

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.

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,...

She's on a magazine cover and national television, telling her emotional and explicit story of being sexually attacked by Dominique Strauss-Kahn and pressing for him to be tried.