A court in New York has heard that the former head of the IMF has reached an undisclosed financial settlement with the hotel maid who accused him of sexual assault last year.
The former head of the International Monetary Fund says that he is the subject of a “media assault that some days resembles a manhunt” amid allegations of sexual assault and pimping.
Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn acknowledges being involved in “libertine” activity, but says he never used violence and was unaware of anyone being paid for sex.
The former French politician is counter-suing a hotel maid over rape allegations she made against him last year – seeking damages of at least $1 million.
Undone by sex scandals, economic failures, uprisings and other controversies, an astonishing number of high-profile figures resigned from their various posts in the past 12 months.
The footage has been aired less than fortnight after suggestions that the former head of the IMF was the target of a political plot when he was accused of sexual assault in a New York hotel in May.
The denial comes following the emergence of new details in the case which forced the one-time French presidential favourite to resign earlier this year.
DSK, the man once tipped to be the next president of France, will not go on trial in relation to claims by a French novelist that he tried to rape her.
Investigators questioned the former IMF chief and Tristane Banon to help them decide whether to pursue charges of attempted rape brought by the 32-year-old woman.
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A NEW STUDY has claimed that the number of deaths caused by smoking in the home could be comparable to the number of road deaths recorded in Ireland.
According to the NUI Galway-led research, the concentration of particulate pollution in the homes of smokers (who smoke indoors) is six-times higher than the World Health Organisation’s recommendation for general outdoor air quality, 10 times the allowable level for healthy breathing in homes and up to 17 times greater than levels actually found outdoors.
Smoking at home causes greater levels of air pollutants than using solid fuels such as coal, wood, peat and gas, says Dr Marie Coggins.
Since the introduction of the smoking ban in Ireland, many people have found it easier to stop people smoking in their own homes. So, in today’s poll we ask: Do you allow smoking in your home?
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