Accused Aggravated Pimp DSK stands trial

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Strauss-Kahn trial to offer ‘great show’, says brothel owner

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Latest update : 2015-02-02

Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn on Monday went on trial in the northern French city of Lille accused of pimping, four years after a sex scandal in the US cost him his job and a shot at the French presidency.
The 65-year-old economist, whose high-flying career imploded when he was accused of sexually assaulting a New York hotel maid in 2011, this week returned to court over his role at the centre of a prostitution ring.

Strauss-Kahn, who had been preparing to run for French president and was enjoying a runaway lead in opinion polls ahead of the 2012 contest, resigned from the IMF. The fall from grace destroyed his political ambitions, leaving the way free for the current president, François Hollande.

Once one of the most powerful men in the world, Strauss-Kahn sat in the dock alongside a colourful cast of characters including luxury hotel managers, a prostitute, police, and a brothel owner named Dominique Alderweireld but who is better known by his nickname: "Dodo the Pimp."

“This is going to be fun, it’s going to be a great show,” Alderweireld, who is accused of procuring prostitutes for orgies attended by Strauss-Kahn, told reporters as he arrived in court.

Arms folded and dressed in a black suit, Strauss-Kahn appeared tense, often typing on his cellphone as procedural issues dominated the first day of what is expected to become a three-week-long trial.

Lawyers for several of the 14 accused, including Strauss-Kahn, called for the case to be declared invalid over claims some of their clients had their calls intercepted on orders from former prime minister François Fillon's office in June 2010 – eight months before the official investigation began.

The allegation, based on a book written by a former policeman, a witness statement in a separate case and a report by an investigative journalist, meant the accused "could not receive a fair trial," said one of their lawyers, Sorin Margulis.

The lawyers demanded more information on the secret probe and also slammed the three investigating judges for bias, over reports they had stuck a caricature of the Strauss-Kahn up in their office.

Presiding judge Bernard Lemaire, who earlier dismissed a request for ex-prostitutes to testify behind closed doors, said the question about the secret probe would be included in the trial.

Aiding and abetting prostitution

Earlier, Lemaire had read out the charges against Strauss-Kahn, accused of being at the centre of a vice ring which hired prostitutes for sex parties in Brussels, Paris and Washington DC.

"You are accused of aiding and abetting the prostitution of seven persons between March 29, 2008 and October 4, 2011, and of hiring and encouraging the prostitution of these same persons," Lemaire said.

Lurid details of group sex and high-end prostitution are likely to emerge in the trial, in which Strauss-Kahn faces up to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to 1.5 million euros if he is convicted.

The trial will be the latest in a series of legal woes offering a peek behind the bedroom door of a man once tipped as a potential challenger to former French president Nicolas Sarkozy.

France was stunned when they saw Strauss-Kahn paraded handcuffed in front of the world's cameras after a New York hotel maid accused him of sexual assault in May 2011 - a case that was eventually settled in a civil suit.

Many believe he was set up by opponents exploiting his well-known voracious sexual appetite.

The 'Carlton Affair'

Investigators probing the "Carlton Affair" - named after one of the upscale hotels in Lille where local businessmen and police officials organised sex parties in northern France and Belgium - found some of the prostitutes involved had been hired to participate in soirees attended by Strauss-Kahn.

Prostitution is legal in France but procuring - the legal term for pimping, which includes encouraging, benefiting from or organising prostitution - is punishable by a hefty jail term.

The crux of the case against Strauss-Kahn is whether he knew the women were prostitutes and whether he played a role in organising their presence.

Strauss-Kahn admits to being a "libertine" who enjoys orgies but has steadfastly denied knowing the women were paid.

"In these circumstances one isn't always clothed, and I challenge you to tell the difference between a prostitute naked and any other woman naked," DSK's star lawyer Henri Leclerc, 84, said in 2011.

But investigators claim Strauss-Kahn was "king of the party," and they are seeking to prove his mere presence gave rise to prostitution, as his entourage organised the evenings according to his schedule.

The first to take the stand on Tuesday will be the Carlton's former public relations manager Rene Kojfer who is accused of organising prostitutes for "well-connected men", often setting them up in his hotel.

(FRANCE 24 with AFP, REUTERS)

http://www.france24.com/en/20150202-strauss-kahn-trial-show-brothel-owner-carlton-affair-lille/

A day before the former French presidential hopeful is set to appear before a court at the start of yet another trial exposing his predatory sexual behaviour, a poll in Le Parisien found 79% of the respondents believed Strauss-Kahn would have been a better president than François Hollande.

http://www.france24.com/en/20150201-france-pimping-dsk-strauss-kahn-president-sex-carlton-affair/

 

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[Liu Kang]

[...]

A day before the former French presidential hopeful is set to appear before a court at the start of yet another trial exposing his predatory sexual behaviour, a poll in Le Parisien found 79% of the respondents believed Strauss-Kahn would have been a better president than François Hollande.[...]

From a strictly political POV, they aren't wrong IMO.

 

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His pimp hand was too strong, beyond legal limits apparently

 

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‘Dodo the Pimp’ takes centre stage at Strauss-Kahn trial

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© AFP / François Lo Presti / 'Dodo le Saumure' leaves the courthouse in Lille on February 5 2015
Text by Tony TODD

Latest update : 2015-02-05

A trial in which former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is accused of involvement in an illegal prostitution ring swung between the comic and the tragic Thursday, as a convicted pimp and sex workers traded contradictory and disturbing evidence.
The trial, which opened on Monday, is a multi-faceted case with 14 defendants and focuses on a prostitution ring allegedly run by the owners and a publicist for the luxury Carlton hotel in the northern French city of Lille.

It was during the police probe into the so-called "Carlton Affair" that investigators stumbled across the name of Strauss-Kahn, better known in France by his initials DSK, whose high-flying career and presidential prospects imploded when a New York hotel maid accused him of sexual assault in 2011.

‘Dodo the Pimp’

DSK was not present at Thursday’s hearing, which focused instead on the activities of Dominique Alderweireld, better known as “Dodo le Saumure” (which roughly translates as Dodo the Pimp).

Alderweireld, a French citizen whose businesses are based in Belgium, is accused of bussing prostitutes over the border to work in Lille's Carlton Hotel.

Alderweireld, who turned 66 on Thursday, appears to be proud of his nickname, and spoke frankly about two jail terms he served for illegally procuring prostitutes, (prostitution is not illegal in France, but procuring prostitutes and making a profiting from their activities is.)

He also described his businesses in Belgium, where he owns a number of “establishments” used by prostitutes. He said he was no longer the legal director of these brothels and hostess bars because he is forbidden to have a bank account, but that he nevertheless likes to “keep his hand in”.

Publicity stunts

Alderweireld, who explained that he did not take a cut of the sex-workers earnings but charged them to use his facilities instead, seemed to be using the trial as a publicity stunt.

He even joked that he was considering opening a new establishment called “IMF” in honour of DSK. In 2014 he opened a bar called the “Dodo Sex Club” (DSK), which was shut down after Strauss-Kahn threatened to sue.

Another name he claimed to be considering was “Carlton”, the name of the hotel whose 70-year-old head of communications, René Kojfer, stands accused of conniving with Alderweireld to sell sexual services to businessmen.

Alderweireld said Kojfer was a childhood friend, and referred to him in the courtroom jokingly as “Mr Three Minutes” (“the “time it takes for him to have a shower”) and also as “Judas, the dark shame of Lille’s Hebrew community”.

Often giving evidence next to his 41-year-old long-term girlfriend and co-accused Beatrice Legrain, who told the court she had “been a prostitute all her life and enjoyed the work", Alderweireld was openly dismissive of the women who worked in his “establishments”, describing them as having an “average IQ of 25” and telling the court he referred to black prostitutes as “negresses”.

Both he and Legrain deny shipping prostitutes to France for their own profit, including organising orgies in which DSK was reported to have participated.

“I never put any of the girls in my clubs under any kind of pressure to go and work at the Carlton,” he told the court. “They were contacted without my knowledge".

'Working in Lille was like a holiday compared to Dodo'

One prostitute, who referred to herself by her professional name “Jade”, told the court that one of Alderweireld’s Belgian managers recruited her to work in Lille. She insisted, however, that she had “never set foot” in the Carlton Hotel, but had worked out of a neighbouring apartment.

She told the court that a brothel manager referred to as "Sofia" had told her: “I’ve had a call from Dodo - he wants three girls to go to Lille.”

“Jade”, who often broke down in tears as she described her life as a single mother and working prostitute, said working for “Dodo” was a living hell, that he did nothing when they were abused and that he had a policy of “having a free go with all the new girls”.

Her work in Lille, she said, was “nice, because it got me away from Dodo’s exploitative environment".

"Compared to working in Dodo’s brothels, Lille was more like a holiday", she added.

Strauss-Kahn, who is due to give evidence next Tuesday, admits he is a “libertine” who enjoys taking part in orgies, but denies knowing that any of the women he had sex with were prostitutes.

The 65-year-old economist nonetheless finds himself facing 10 years in prison and a fine of up to 1.5 million euros for "aggravated pimping in an organised group".

Investigating judges argue that he played a role in initiating the sex parties and organising the presence of the prostitutes.

Strauss-Kahn, who had been preparing to run for the French presidency and was enjoying a runaway lead in opinion polls ahead of the 2012 election, resigned from the IMF after he was accused of sexually assaulting a New York hotel maid in 2011.

His fall from grace destroyed his political ambitions as a leading member of the French Socialist Party, leaving the way free for the current president, François Hollande.

http://www.france24.com/en/20150205-dodo-pimp-revels-strauss-kahn-pimping-trial/

 

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FEMEN jumping on DSK's car outside of court today

 

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Topless protesters target Strauss-Kahn at pimping trial

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Three topless women from the feminist protest group Femen jumped on the car of Dominique Strauss-Kahn as the former IMF chief arrived to testify on Tuesday at a trial in which he is accused of being at the core of a prostitution ring.
With slogans scrawled on their half-naked bodies and hurling insults at the car, the three protesters were quickly rounded up by police as the car entered an underground parking area.

Strauss-Khan, known in France as DSK and once tipped to become president of France before his ambitions were torpedoed after he was accused of sexual assault by a New York maid in 2011, is facing charges of “aggravated pimping” over allegations he instigated sex parties involving prostitutes between 2008-2011 in the northern French city of Lille, Brussels, Paris and Washington DC.

The presence of the silver-haired economist, the most high-profile of the 14 accused in the three-week trial, drew crowds of journalists and curious onlookers outside the court in Lille.

It is the first time DSK will appear at the trial since its opening day last Monday. He is expected to argue he is merely a libertine who engaged in orgies with consenting adults and did not know the women lavishing their attention on him were prostitutes.

This has been backed up by businessman David Roquet, also on trial as one of the alleged organisers of the notorious sex parties.

“I think Roquet wanted to please Strauss-Kahn, and that's the problem with this case,” said Roquet’s lawyer Stephane Squillaci. “Roquet brought girls, introduced them, and because he didn't want to make him feel bad he said they were secretaries for his company, or his girlfriend. He never said they were prostitutes, never.”

Likely or credible?

But two former prostitutes who say they attended the parties have testified that the former IMF boss knew exactly why they were there.

Anti-prostitution campaigners have also found the line hard to swallow.

“We'll see over the next three days during Strauss-Kahn's questioning whether it's likely or credible that a former IMF Director-General, a former qualified professor, a former finance minister, this great international expert could be lacking in lucidity and clear-sightedness to the point of thinking that all these women present were only there because of his power of seduction,” said Emmanuel Daoud Lawyer the NID anti-prostitution association.

Strauss-Kahn, who says his political career is over, risks as much as 10 years in prison and a fine of up to 1.5 million euros ($1.72 million) if convicted.

Prostitution is legal in France but procuring – the legal term for pimping which includes encouraging, benefiting from or organising prostitution – is a crime.

Investigating magistrates say that charge applies because in France it covers any activity seen as facilitating prostitution. In Strauss-Kahn’s case, it is alleged that he allowed his rented apartment to be used for sex parties involving prostitutes and that the parties were organised for his benefit.

Moreover, because he did not pay them himself, he is alleged to have received benefit in kind from prostitution.

The scandal, dubbed the “Carlton affair” after the Lille hotel close to where some of the parties are said to have taken place, is the latest in a series of cases offering a peek behind the bedroom door of a man once tipped as a potential challenger to former French president Nicolas Sarkozy.

France was stunned when it saw Strauss-Kahn paraded handcuffed in front of the world's cameras after New York hotel chambermaid Nafissatou Diallo maid accused him of sexual assault in May 2011 – a case that was eventually settled in a civil suit.

The accusations made made it impossible for him to run on the Socialist ticket for the presidential election in the following year. That allowed Francois Hollande to come forward and beat conservative incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy.

(FRANCE 24 with REUTERS, AFP)

http://www.france24.com/en/20150210..._ref=partage_aef&aef_campaign_date=2015-02-10

 

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Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s Trial in France Begins With Topless Protesters and Testimony About Wild Orgies

By Melodie Bouchaud

February 10, 2015 | 8:20 pm
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the disgraced French politician and former head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), took the stand Tuesday in France to testify in a trial that involves sex parties at luxury hotels and an international prostitution ring.

DSK, as he is known in France, stands accused of "aggravated pimping," in what has been dubbed the "Carlton affair" because it involves orgies at the Carlton Hotel in the northern French town of Lille and in other cities, including Washington and Paris.

The hearing got off to a raucous start when three topless members of the radical feminist protest group FEMEN threw themselves at DSK's car, chanting "your turn to get fukked."

Speaking in court Tuesday, the 65-year-old Strauss-Kahn — a one-time presidential hopeful — admitted he was present at the sex parties, but argued that he was unaware he was having sex with prostitutes. He said he thought the women were, like him, "libertines."

Strauss-Kahn also told the court that, "Sleeping with a prostitute is not my concept of a sexual relationship," and that he didn't like to pay for sex, preferring instead "a party atmosphere."

Throughout the afternoon, the former head of the IMF described some of his sexual proclivities, explaining that the orgies were an escape from "a very hectic life, with just a few outlets for recreation." He claimed the orgies happened a mere "four times a year," and did not constitute "unbridled activity."

Clara Beaudoux, a journalist for France Info who attended the hearing, tweeted a claim DSK made about the prostitutes. He reportedly said, "I never thought they were here for me, I thought they were here with friends."





DSK was first linked to the case by chance in May 2011, when police investigating a suspected prostitution ring wiretapped the phone of Dominique Alderweireld, a Belgian sex club owner and pimp better known as Dodo la Saumure. The investigation into Alderweireld involved several hotels in Lille and a number of public figures.

Strauss-Kahn's name came up in a conversation between René Kojfer, head of public relations at the Carlton Hotel, and Dodo la Saumure, who was recorded saying, "Have you seen Strauss-Kahn? It's not surprising. You know, when I brought girls over for him… He's screwed."

DSK had just been arrested in New York on charges of sexual assault. Nafissatou Diallo, a housekeeper at the Sofitel Hotel who filed the assault claim, later dropped the charges. As a result of the scandal, DSK resigned as head of the IMF and dropped his presidential ambitions.

According to reports, orgies and "libertine parties" were thrown for DSK — nicknamed "the king of the party" by an alleged participant — in Lille, Washington, and Paris. Women involved in the case have described DSK's sexual preferences as "unusual" and "a slaughter." Several female witnesses claim Strauss-Kahn was "the central pivot and main beneficiary" of the sex parties, and that, at times, he was "the sole beneficiary."

Prostitution is not illegal in France, and neither is being a john. But pimping — any activity deemed to facilitate or encourage prostitution — is an offense punishable by prison. Prosecutors have argued that DSK knew the women present at the orgies were prostitutes, not libertines — a claim he denies.

Didier Rebut, who teaches criminal law at the University of Panthéon-Assas in Paris, told VICE News that, "In most cases, individuals accused of pimping knew they were dealing with prostitutes."

The court will now try to determine whether or not DSK is lying when he says he was oblivious to the transactional nature of what he describes as "recreational sessions," insisting he never "had any reason to believe these women were being paid."

As for why Strauss-Kahn thought all these young women were so eager to have no-strings-attached sex with him, he said he often found himself "in a situation where a woman throws herself at me."

A former prostitute who used the name Mounia told the court that DSK insisted on having anal sex during one of the "parties," even though she made it clear she didn't want to. Strauss-Kahn denied the allegation, saying, "If a woman says no, it means no."

The anal sex allegation is significant. If it can be proven that DSK insisted on a sexual practice his partner was not comfortable with, it will help strengthen the argument that he knew she was in fact a prostitute — not an unpaid swinger.

Another ex-prostitute who went by the name Jade described the orgies as a scene "from antiquity." When asked whether or not she had ever spoken to Strauss-Kahn, she repliedthat she "couldn't really, since he was in her mouth."

Rebut, the French criminal law expert, explained that the French definition of pimping is extremely broad. "French law expands [the definition of] pimping, which consists of benefiting from someone else's prostitution and making money off it, to include any activity that encourages prostitution, outside of any payment," he said.

"The line between client and pimp is getting thinner," he added. "This highlights the evolution of a society that wants to go further in tackling issues of prostitution and pimping by prosecuting the individual who paid."

The hearing was adjourned Tuesday night and is scheduled resume Wednesday morning.

https://news.vice.com/article/domin...imony-about-wild-orgies?utm_source=vicenewsfb

let him cook

 

[superunknown23]

"Lust is no crime"

"I didn't know that the girls in orgies were prostitutes"

 

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"Lust is no crime"

"I didn't know that the girls in orgies were prostitutes"

" When asked whether or not she had ever spoken to Strauss-Kahn, she repliedthat she "couldn't really, since he was in her mouth."


gems for days

 

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Strauss-Kahn Called Women at Sex Parties ‘Equipment’ in Text

(Bloomberg) -- Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s treatment of women was again under scrutiny as French judges quizzed him about a text message in which he asked a friend to bring “equipment” to a sex party.
Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the International Monetary Fund, admitted Thursday using the word to refer to women was “inappropriate.” The 65-year-old, who is accused of aggravated pimping, said the use of the phrase doesn’t mean he saw them as sex workers.
In a text message, “it’s easy to be uninhibited,” the 65-year-old Strauss-Kahn said on his last day of testimony in Lille, France. “The word equipment was used once.”
DSK, as he’s known across France, and 13 others are charged with hiring prostitutes for orgies in a case known as the “Carlton Affair” for the name of the hotel in Lille where some of the sex parties took place. The sex scandal is one of two that derailed his once promising political career and made him a figure of global derision.
Strauss-Kahn argues that he never paid anyone and didn’t know the women at the parties were prostitutes. Judge Bernard Lemaire read out text messages between Strauss-Kahn and his friend Fabrice Paszkowski, a local businessman, to determine their conduct.
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Deputy Public Prosecutor Aline Clerot said the evidence indicates Paszkowski was an “organizer and recruiter” of prostitutes acting at the behest of Strauss-Kahn.
Paszkowski said he has consistently rejected the prosecutor’s allegations since he was first arrested in 2011. If he sought to bring new women it’s because “in libertine circles we always want to meet new people,” he said. Paszkowski said he hid from Strauss-Kahn that some of them were prostitutes.
Paszkowski said that Strauss-Kahn, once a favorite for the French presidency, was in great demand and seen as “the gift of the party.”
Strauss-Kahn said “it makes no sense” to consider he was the “instigator” as Paszkowski proposed the orgies. “I never asked him to organize the parties.”
He testified for a third day as he seeks to repair a reputation that has been battered by sex scandals on two continents. Charges of sexual assault in a New York hotel room, that were eventually dropped, led to his resignation from the IMF. A post-IMF business venture ended in bankruptcy after his partner died in an apparent suicide, and Luxembourg is looking into the group’s collapse.
The Frenchman faces as many as 10 years in prison and as much as 1.5 million-euro fine ($1.7 million) if convicted.
Strauss-Kahn also had to answer questions about a Paris apartment he rented under another man’s name.
He said he needed a place to meet discreetly with political friends and also to rendezvous with his sexual conquests.
“I was a married politician,” DSK said. “I didn’t want the lease to be under my name.”
To contact the reporter on this story: Gaspard Sebag in Brussels at gsebag@bloomberg.net
To contact the editors responsible for this story: Anthony Aarons at aaarons@bloomberg.net Patrick Oster

 

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Dude ain't no pimp.

 

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Nouvelle York
Reporting from America’s ville lumière


Fri, 02/13/2015 - 02:42
Four years after DSK, what became of the Sofitel housekeeper?

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Revelations in a Lille courtroom this week suggest that Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s “libertine” lifestyle left a longer trail of victims than he might have realised.

None so prominent as Nafissatou Diallo, the Guinean housekeeper whosaid she was orally raped by DSK on the 28th floor of a Manhattan hotel in 2011.

What happens to the sexual abuse victims of the wealthy and powerful after the initial media storm? Diallo received a rumoured $1.5 million in damages from Strauss-Kahn following an out-of-court settlement (a third of which she lost to legal fees), but has she recovered from her humiliating part in one of the biggest political scandals of the century?

News last week that the 36-year-old had opened a restaurant, undeniably with those funds, ignited critics who claim she willingly helped bring about the downfall of DSK (once considered France’s next president), even as he prepared to battle fresh sex-related allegations, this time for the aggravated pimping of seven women.

I went to the restaurant this week to see what Diallo had built with the money she so painfully accrued (even if she was recruited as part of a political ploy -- vaginal bruising, a torn ligament in her shoulder and having DSK ejaculate into her mouth was undoubtedly an experience she would have preferred to avoid, not to mention the humiliation and dishonour brought by such a desperate act, if that was the case).

Diallo's restaurant on Boston Road in the Bronx. Photo: Sophie Pilgrim.

The restaurant, called Chez Amina, is wedged between a mosque and a supermarket and sits across from a Pentecostal church on a busy thoroughfare in the Bronx. It’s a simple drop-in joint, selling “African, American and Spanish” food (I had a thieboudienne: a fish and yellow rice dish, it tasted exactly like it does in West Africa, delicious). The seating is faux-leather, the tables are formica and the decoration is non-existent. Patrons, many of them men and alone, all of them African or African-American, watched CNN, NBC and Senegalese national television on one of four flatscreens as they were served generous plates of meat, steaming rice and cassava. A young couple came in for an early dinner before the woman’s shift at a taxi dispatch unit, a boy idled by the counter and skittered out with a heavy bag.

Diallo appeared, very much unchanged from when we last saw her in 2011, discreetly, speaking quietly to staff members and greeting customers warmly. After a week of what her lawyer called “harassment” from the press, I hoped to remain inconspicuous during my visit. Diallo had refused to speak to several French reporters who turned up last week, before disappearing from the restaurant entirely.

She worked the till and gave careful instruction to one of her staff in cleaning the coffee machine. Her presence seemed to have a reassuring, almost calming effect on the staff, a trio of skittish young African women, all of which were decked out in plastic aprons, rubber gloves and hats. The restaurant was orderly, and spotless.

‘New life’

In an interview with Newsweek in 2011 Diallo expressed pride in her cleaning job at the Sofitel hotel -- where she held an excellent record -- explaining that having an entire floor was an achievement she reached shortly before her encounter with DSK. “I keep that floor,” she said. “I never had a floor before.”

Last week Diallo’s lawyer, Douglas Wigdor, told French radio station RTL that while Diallo had “more money than she probably ever would have had, she would without a doubt prefer to have remained a housekeeper at the Sofitel hotel, that none of this had happened”.

Diallo (pictured right in 2011) faced suspicion and isolation from her community after the DSK incident, and only returned to the Bronx neighbourhood where she had “always lived” in 2014.

An immigrant who was granted asylum because she suffered genital mutilation as a child, details of Diallo’s past remain cloudy. Illiterate, she is reported to have spent part of the settlement money on her teenage daughter’s education.

“This restaurant is my new life,” she told French daily Le Parisien, which managed to speak to her by phone before journalists in the city turned up on the premises. “I’m just trying to do the best for my daughter”.

As Diallo surveyed her restaurant, nodding to a familiar face and turning to remind one of her staff to put napkins in a takeaway bag, I checked my phone for the latest on DSK’s trial in France.

“Calm, confident and smiling, Dominique Strauss-Kahn left court after further lurid details of his sexual mores apparently failed to undermine his main line of defence,” FRANCE 24’s Tony Todd reported. “He always assumed women consented to (often brutal sex), he told the court ...'Because of who I am’.”

To see Diallo’s reaction to such a statement would be interesting, revealing even. But watching her do what she set out to do three years after her devastating encounter with DSK -- that is, as she told Le Parisien, to "provide New York with a good African restaurant” -- was far more satisfying.


http://newyork.blogs.france24.com/a...fissatou-diallo-restaurant-bronx-strauss-kahn

 

[Bernie Madoff]

 

[Brosef]

Throughout the afternoon, the former head of the IMF described some of his sexual proclivities, explaining that the orgies were an escape from "a very hectic life, with just a few outlets for recreation." He claimed the orgies happened a mere "four times a year," and did not constitute "unbridled activity."

Clara Beaudoux, a journalist for France Info who attended the hearing, tweeted a claim DSK made about the prostitutes. He reportedly said, "I never thought they were here for me, I thought they were here with friends."