Posted on 05/22/2011 9:09:57 AM PDT by doug from upland
More Strauss-Kahn Rumors Emerge Updated: Sunday, 22 May 2011, 9:35 AM CDT Published : Sunday, 22 May 2011, 9:35 AM CDT
(NewsCore) - NEW YORK -- Former International Monetary Fund (IMF) head Dominique Strauss-Kahn attempted to lure two attractive hotel employees to his $3,000-a-night New York hotel suite -- and later put the moves on an Air France flight attendant following his alleged sexual assault on a maid, the New York Post reported Sunday.
"What a nice ass!" he barked to the attendant, using the lewd French expression "Quel beau cul!" as she prepared the business-class cabin for takeoff last Saturday.
His catcall came just moments before Port Authority detectives hauled him off the plane, French magazine Le Point reported.
The final act of lust capped a whirlwind weekend of attempted womanizing for the former front-runner of the 2012 French presidential election.
The frisky Frenchman first tried his seduction skills on a VIP receptionist who escorted him to his suite at the Sofitel hotel Friday evening, law enforcement sources said.
When he got to his room, the 62 year old asked the "attractive" worker to join him for a glass of Champagne after her shift -- an invitation she described to authorities as "inappropriate" and that she rejected on the spot, the sources said.
Strauss-Kahn, a married father of four, then tried his game the following day on the desk receptionist who first checked him in, described by a source as an "attractive woman who caught his eye."
He asked her to join him in his suite, where he had a complimentary bottle of Dom Perignon Champagne. The woman said that, at first, he was "borderline flirting," and she declined the sordid invite, according to sources.
His attempted seductions came to light after investigators interviewed every Sofitel employee and pored over more than 48 hours of video footage, including recordings of Strauss-Kahn bolting from the hotel Saturday afternoon without checking out.
The silver-haired skirt-chaser did not explicitly ask either woman for sex, but both described his advances as blatantly "inappropriate," the sources said.
The frustrated Lothario allegedly resorted to violence after striking out with the two hotel staffers. Prosecutors said that after emerging from the suite's bathroom naked, he threw himself upon the unsuspecting 32-year-old maid who was in his room to clean.
Strauss-Kahn allegedly chased her down the hallway and into his bedroom, grabbed her breasts, attempted to pull down her pantyhose and forced her to perform fellatio before she tore free from his grasp and ran to tell her colleagues, who called the cops.
After leaving the hotel, the ex-banking big shot stopped for lunch with his daughter Camille, a Columbia University student, before grabbing a cab to JFK Airport. But the harried political bigwig realized that he left one of his seven cell phones behind and called the hotel.
Police investigating the alleged rape attempt had already told hotel employees to ask him where he was and tell him that they would deliver the phone. Strauss-Kahn even asked the pilot to delay the flight so it could be delivered but was refused, according to Le Point.
Strauss-Kahn was indicted on seven counts, including attempted rape, criminal sexual assault and unlawful imprisonment. He could face up to 25 years if convicted. He is pleading not guilty
I also read that the maid is a devout Muslim and wears her veil....
I kind of hope he’s not guilty of this crime but is found guilty anyway.
Being a French Socialist is not a crime but he should be punished for it anyway. Kind of like O.J. not serving time for murder but hey, time is time, no matter what he’s serving it for.
Especially if she's reportedly the widow of an AIDS victim, who continues to live in housing reserved for HIV-positive individuals.
He apparently has scratches on him, too (on his body, not on his face).
This guy was such a sleaze. Anybody who has worked in the restaurant and hospitality industry will recognize the type.
But he was so powerful he thought he could get away with anything. And the French seem to agree. The press is filled with comments like, “but it doesn’t matter, she was just a chambermaid.”
There is a difference between a flirt and a predator. I had the wonderful experience of working for the latter for a short period of time. By the end, every woman in our department refused to be in an office with him if the door was closed. No one was ever left in the office suite alone with him either. We stopped accepting individual lunch invitations (which more than once conveniently included a stop by his home), take him to the airport or be in any other situation that gave him an opening.
Experience receptionists at places like the Sofitel can probably smell the difference, let alone pick up the nuances in the predator’s delivery.
In which case she would love the Socialists (he’s a Socialist), because it’s Sarkozy who is pressing the anti-veil legislation.
She wouldn’t attack or be set up to attack one of her own sympathizers.
I bet you’re going to see that this guy has a history of going after lower-status women everywhere he’s been. He’s on his third wife, so he was obviously going after higher-status women, too.
He is probably used to having hotels pressure their maids not to tell, possibly with a payoff involved. But I bet that generally the employer just pressured the maid or maybe offered her something trivial like her preferred shift because they wanted to keep his business. Airlines probably ignored any complaints from their attractive female flight attendants too.
But suddenly he encountered the NYPD and lost his magic.
The problem is all these odd coincidences...
1. Not her usual floor
2. Found by accident hiding in the hall next to Kahn's room
3.Maid Taken BACK into Kahn's room by supervisor and she's spitting all over the place
4. The phone??
5. An hour before they called police??
So he has a planned lunch with his daughter, a booked flight to Paris...where he lives and decides to attack the maid. Yeh, right...
I read it was lunch with one of his exes and their daughter Camille, the Columbia grad student.
Then he takes a cab to the airport, realizes he forgot one of his phones, and calls the hotel. Sofitel tells him they'll courier it out to airport, but sends the Port Authority Police instead.
So, contrary to initial impressions of haste, it would seem obvious he didn't think he'd done anything he hadn't got away with plenty of times before. Make of that what you will. LOL! After all, if it hadn't been for the phone, he'd have been high over the North Atlantic before they figured out where he was.
I find the reporting horrible and rumors still more unbelievable. Report he was fleeing the country but story fact says has a meeting with Merkel head of state of Germany on Sunday. Reporting say The police traced him to Air France flight story fact DSK calls the hotel reports a missing a cell phone tell them where to deliver it. Reporting nobody knows why DSK is in town fact he had visited his daughter. Rumor he sodomized maid fact maid says he forced her to do oral sex. The reporting is bad and the case is too strange for me to convict the guy because the press does and the mob that runs to do the same.
THEY CALLED HIM makes more sense...
In fact...it doesn't even make much sense that he left it behind....More like "someone" lifted it...like the dude who gave the all clear on the room....
There simply is no smooth flow of events here...makes the whole "affair" questionable.
Ummmm, one of the definitions of sodomy is oral sex.
He could have asked the hotel to FedEx the phone to his address in Paris. It can't be that important, after all - phones get broken, batteries discharge, etc. I'm sure he could afford a new phone, and he could get it within minutes of landing in France. The phone company would be glad to cancel his old SIM, issue a brand new phone, and he'd be back in business right away.
I agree that he was simply not alarmed. Once he escaped the scene of crime he cooled down and decided that the maid won't tell anyone. He was almost right - the maid was in shock and was found only accidentally by her boss. If not found, she - being a recent immigrant, not aware of how things are done here - likely would decide to do nothing.
That wasn’t the context of the rumors but you know that.
Or he could have insulted her Muslim belief and she faked this like some other Muslim women have faked reports.
Good article.
re: If he is such a womanizer and violent guy with women, why didn’t he ever get charged until now? If he has a long history of sexual abuse, how can it have remained no more than gossip this long?
We have the prime example - William Jefferson Blythe Clinton. Not just consensual stuff. He was a serial sexual predator but was and still remains above the law. I don’t know if this guy will be found guilty. He might not have done what the maid charges or he may just be another powerful man who is above the law and gets away with it. I can say, because of his pattern of behavior, it would not be surprising that he did this.
Bedbugs?
One article said he made several business calls after he left the hotel so he must have had a second phone. And if he had a second phone, why would he miss the other phone AT A CRITICAL POINT IN THE TIMELINE???
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