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 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.
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.
Nafissatou Diallo claims that former IMF chief Dominique Strauss Kahn forced her to perform oral sex and ripped off her tights when she came to clean his hotel room.
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The former IMF head’s team includes PR gurus and private investigators as he looks to fight allegations of attempted rape in the US and rebuild his reputation back in France.
The former IMF chief will temporarily stay at an apartment block near the site of the 9/11 attacks and the former home of disgraced financier Bernie Madoff but neighbours there don’t seem too pleased about his arrival.
The Minister for Finance heads to the Belgian capital today but is not expected to make any significant progress on the terms of Ireland’s bailout package as Greece, Strauss-Kahn and Portugal dominate the agenda.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn was pulled from an airplane moments before he was to fly to Paris, after a New York chamber maid told police he had sexually assaulted her in his hotel suite.
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