Strauss-Kahn Quits as IMF Chief as Infamous Manhattan Madam Claims He Paid her $2,500 for Her Escort Girls
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| Kristin Davis, 35 |
Head from the IMF Dominique Strauss-Kahn sensationally quit his post these days, amid fresh claims that he paid an infamous brothel madam $2,500 for escort girls.
Kristin Davis, 35, claimed the IMF chief used the services of Wicked Models twice in 2006.
The Frenchman, who was not inside the IMF post in the time, was believed to have been referred to the brothel owner by Irma Nici, a Bosnian prostitute who had been living in Paris, according to The Times newspaper.
Ms Nici - also linked with Davis’s most well-known client, the former New York governor Eliot Spitzer - lately claimed to have slept with David Beckham. The footballer denies the allegation. Mr Spitzer, who's now an anchor for CNN, was forced to resign from the role in 2008 when the scandal was made public.In accordance with The Occasions, Strauss-Kahn - who is at this time on remand in New York accused from the attempted rape of a hotel chambermaid - named Davis inside the third week of January 2006 to request an 'all American' girl, and paid £1,500 ($2,400) for two hours with her.
'He paid in cash', she was quoted as saying. 'The to begin with girl I sent to him said he was aggressive and didn’t prefer to be back with him once again.'
In his letter of resignation released by the IMF, Strauss-Kahn stated: 'I deny together with the greatest possible firmness all the allegations that have been created against me,'
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| Kristin Davis, 35 |
'The girls said he was pushy, overly grabby and forceful. He did not rape any individual. However, at $1,000 or a lot more an hour, we expected the clients to behave like gentlemen, not animals.'
She said she had spoken out about him as a consequence of the new allegations that he violently attacked a brand new York hotel maid.
'I have spent three years protecting the males on my client list - even so, I'll no longer shield these that abuse ladies,' she added.
Davis sent him a second escort, a Brazilian girl, in September 2006 who created no complaint about Strauss-Kahn’s behaviour. The economist was in New York in the time for a conference arranged by Bill Clinton.
Davis was later jailed for prostitution offences, spending 5 months at the Rikers Island prison where Strauss-Kahn is at present getting held.
She last year procured 23,000 signatures in assistance of her candidacy as an independent challenger for New York Governor to Andrew Cuomo - the incumbent
IMF officials have already been urging Strauss-Kahn to stand down as head of the international finance body but admit it's hard to communicate with him as he is in prison.
The IMF’s head is traditionally a European but creating countries were pushing for a transform even ahead of this scandal erupted.
Candidates and their supporters in various nations are now vying for the post, which includes former Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
Mr Brown would be the fourth favourite - at 8/1 - for the post with all the bookmaker William Hill.
He comes behind Axel Weber, the German Bundesbank president; Montek Singh Ahluwalia, an Indian civil servant; and the favourite - Kemal Dervis, the former Turkish finance minister.
Other folks that have been touted contain the French finance minister Christine Lagarde and Josef Ackermann, the Swiss chief of Deutsche Bank.
Meanwhile, in grainy black and white, the mugshot of one with the world's most strong guys was released by the NYPD currently.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn's mouth is set in the image, his gaze averted. He seems to become wearing a jacket as well as a light-coloured shirt.
The booking photo was discovered inside a prisoner movement slip released by the NYPD today, because it emerged his lawyers are asking for him to become released on a $1million money bail.
A bail hearing is set to be held for the IMF chief tomorrow, court officials have mentioned.
Defence lawyers want him released on $1 million cash bail and placed beneath 24-hour residence detention with electronic monitoring, court papers showed on Wednesday.
Strauss-Kahn's state-wide criminal justice program code (NYSID) quantity is 09132366L.
The document emerged as the hotel maid who has accused Strauss-Khan of a vicious sex attack is set to testify in front of a grand jury now.
STRAUSS-KAHN'S LETTER IN FULL
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Board:
It is with infinite sadness that I feel compelled today to present to the Executive Board my resignation from my post of Managing Director of the IMF.
I think at this time first of my wife - whom I love more than anything - of my children, of my family, of my friends.
I think also of my colleagues at the Fund; together we have accomplished such great things over the last three years and more.
To all, I want to say that I deny with the greatest possible firmness all of the allegations that have been made against me.
I want to protect this institution which I have served with honor and devotion, and especially - especially - I want to devote all my strength, all my time, and all my energy to proving my innocence.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn
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| Strauss-Khan, right, was denied $1million bail offered |
Jeffrey Shapiro, the lawyer acting for the lady, said his client will say 'there was practically nothing consensual' regarding the assault that allegedly took place at New York's Sofitel Hotel on Saturday.
The line coupled with new physical evidence is thought to be an effort to quash Strauss-Khan's probably line of defence, that the maid did consent to sex.
It also emerged currently that just a single hour immediately after Strauss-Kahn left the Occasions Square hotel at 12.30pm on Saturday, hotel staff phoned police regarding the attack.
Meanwhile NYPD investigators are DNA-testing samples of fluid they located within the $3,000-a-night suite that Strauss-Khan had been staying in.
The maid showed them exactly where she had spat following the Frenchman allegedly forced her to perform oral sex, based on CBS News.
Police also say they've checked details from the suite door's electronic card reader which indicates the lady came into the room but did not shut the door, as is hotel policy.
This proves the maid was within the room to operate, not have consensual sex, investigators told the news station.
Described as a 'good Muslim' by a close friend the maid was an asylum seeker from Guinea - one from the poorest countries in Africa.
She was granted asylum, based on lawyer Mr Shapiro, and netted the job in the prestigious Sofitel in order to assistance her now 15-year-old teen daughter.
If she had been earning Guinea's common annual wage of $1,000, it would have taken her 3 years to stay just one particular night within the suite exactly where the alleged attack took location.
Mr Shapiro mentioned yesterday that the maid had no idea there was a man within the suite she went into clean or that he was a renowned French politician.
She was now 'alone in the world' after her life had been 'turned upside down' by the alleged attack,' he stated.
'She can't go residence, she can't go back to function. This continues to be absolutely nothing short of a cataclysmic event in her life,' he added.
He also dismissed ideas by Strauss-Khan's legal team that the woman had created up charges or is attempting to cover up a consensual encounter.
That is absolutely nothing besides a physical, sexual assault by this man on this young lady,' he said.
'What (Strauss-Kahn) might be able to get away with in some countries, he can't right here in this country.'
Strauss-Khan has denied all the charges against him, which include things like sex abuse, a criminal sex act, unlawful imprisonment and forcible touching.
His lawyer Benjamin Brafman mentioned he is confident his client is going to be exonerated when all of the physical evidence is collected at his arraignment on Monday.
Strauss-Khan is presently on suicide watch at Rikers Island prison where he is getting held without bail after a judge turned down a $1million offer you in the hearing in Manhattan's Criminal Court.
Norman Seabrook, president of the correction officers union, said Strauss-Kahn did or said a thing in the course of a psychological health evaluation that concerned physicians, and he is getting monitored day and night.
A law enforcement official, speaking on situation of anonymity since of the sensitivity of prisoner medical information, said Strauss-Kahn had not tried to harm himself.
Due to the fact he is such a high profile person Strauss-Khan has been placed inside a cell on his personal in the notorious prison complex.
Meanwhile calls for the 62-year-old to step down as head of the highly effective International Monetary Fund, intensified with U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner saying Strauss-Kahn 'is naturally not inside a position to run' the agency.
Strauss-Kahn Quits as IMF Chief as Infamous Manhattan Madam Claims He Paid her $2,500 for Her Escort Girls
