This showed that her focus was on what had happened to her and not on Mr Strauss-Kahn's wealth, he said. In early July, the New York Times reported that during a phone conversation with a man jailed for possessing marijuana, Ms Diallo said words to the effect of "Don't worry, this guy has a lot of money.
I know what I'm doing. On the tapes, her references to Mr Strauss-Kahn's resources and about knowing what to do were made at different points and in contexts that cast them in a considerably different light, Mr Thompson said. Nonetheless, Strauss-Kahn's legal woes are not completely behind him — he is yet to hear if prosecutors in France will be allowed to pursue charges of aggravated pimping related to an alleged prostitution ring in France.
A court is due to rule in that case on 19 December. The lawsuit settled in New York on Monday relates to claims by Nafissatou Diallo, a year-old former housekeeper at the upmarket Sofitel hotel in Manhattan. She says Strauss-Kahn attacked her on 14 May as she attempted to clean his room. Diallo alleges that Strauss-Kahn ran at her naked, molested her and forced her to perform oral sex on him.
The claims led to a criminal investigation against the IMF boss last year, and to his house arrest in Manhattan. But charges of attempted rape, sex abuse, forcible touching and unlawful imprisonment were eventually dropped, with prosecutors citing "substantial credibility issues" with Diallo. Despite the collapse of a criminal investigation, Diallo continued to pursue Strauss-Kahn through the civil courts, leading to a counter defamation suit by the former IMF head.
At first, Strauss-Kahn's lawyers tried to claim that their client had diplomatic immunity him from being sued. But that failed, with the courts dismissing his claims of protection. Her lawsuit against the Post concerned a series of articles that called her a prostitute and said she sold sex at a hotel where the Manhattan DA's office had housed her during the criminal case.
The News Corp newspaper has said it stands by its reporting; a spokeswoman declined to comment on Thursday. In France , judges are to decide by 19 December whether charges linking Strauss-Kahn to a suspected prostitution ring run out of a luxury hotel in Lille can go ahead. He acknowledges attending "libertine" gatherings but denies knowing that some women present were paid. In August a separate case against Strauss-Kahn, centred on allegations of rape in a Washington DC hotel, was dropped after French prosecutors said the accuser, an escort, changed her account to say she wasn't raped.
Soon after Strauss-Kahn's arrest in New York last year, the French writer Tristane Banon accused him of attempting to rape her during an interview in , a claim he called imaginary and slanderous. Prosecutors said they believed the encounter qualified as a sexual assault but the legal timeframe to pursue her complaint had elapsed.
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