Anne Sinclair Uses Family’s Fortune to Fight Dominique-Strauss Kahn’s Sex Assault Charges
Anne Sinclair, the wife of former International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn, is using her millions to help her husband fight sexual assault charges.
Sinclair, 62, was spotted leaving the luxury high rise in lower Manhattan where Strauss-Kahn is temporarily living during his house arrest. Sinclair is arranging for the couple to transfer to a new luxury apartment.
“My guess is that she will stay by his side all the way through. She will stay with him in New York. She will be there at every appearance in front of the court,” said Appolline de Malherbe, correspondent for French channel BFMTV.
Since Strauss-Kahn’s arrest on May 14 for allegedly sexually assaulting a maid at the Sofitel hotel, Sinclair has defended her husband.
Sinclair was a prominent television journalist in France when she married Strauss-Kahn in 1991. It was his third marriage and her second. Sinclair retreated from her career and became a driving force behind Strauss-Kahn’s political ambitions. She used her considerable family fortune to finance his political career.
Sinclair’s grandfather amassed a fortune representing artists like Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. Now Sinclair is using that same family fortune for her husband’s court battle and house arrest.
“He worked a lot, earned a lot of money, but she earned more than he did. Together as a couple, they’re worth about $70 million,” de Malherbe said.
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... and yet, the only "tip" he tried leaving the poor maid was...
I look forward to the civil suit cutting that net worth by at least half.