Dominique Strauss-Kahn is facing a new **** allegation stemming from a 2010 "sex party" in a Washington, D.C., hotel—part of a widening probe into the former International Monetary Fund chief's alleged role in a prostitution ring, French prosecutors said Monday.
Police are opening a preliminary inquiry into a suspected "gang ****" that took place in Washington in December 2010.
Investigators "have reason to believe ... that there is suspicion of gang ****," the prosecutor's office said in a statement.
According to France's Liberation newspaper, two female "escorts" interviewed by Belgian police in Lille say they accompanied two of Strauss-Kahn's associates on a trip to Washington. The group stayed at the W Hotel, where one of the women told police Strauss-Kahn ***** her.
"I didn't scream, but I said clearly and out loud that I didn't want to," she said in her deposition, according to the paper.
Lawyers for Strauss-Kahn quickly denied the latest allegation.
"I don't see the coherence of opening preliminary investigations for gang **** when the person concerned, who was questioned at length, did not file a complaint for ****," Richard Malka, one of Strauss-Kahn's lawyers, told Agence France-Press.
It's the latest sex scandal to sting the former IMF head and one-time presidential hopeful. Strauss-Kahn, 63, is already under investigation for his involvement in the prostitution ring, or what prosecutors described in March as "aggravated pimping."
He denied those allegations, too.
"[Our client] absolutely contests having committed the slightest act of ******** of any nature whatsoever," his lawyers said in a statement earlier this month.
In 2011, Strauss-Kahn was accused sexually assaulting a maid in a New York hotel. The criminal charges were dropped, but the maid, Nafissatou Diallo, launched a civil suit against him. Strauss-Kahn filed a $1 million countersuit against Diallo for defamation.
Shortly after the New York maid incident, French writer Tristane Banon filed a complaint against Strauss-Kahn for allegedly ****** her in 2003. The charges were eventually dropped.
What is this, the third or fourth accusation of sexual improprieties, both here and in Europe? Is this now piling on, or is this guy some sort of serial perv???
