Disgraced former IMF chief's description of women as 'equipment' in text messages proves he knew they were prostitutes, prosecutors claim. Dominique Strauss-Kahn rented a secret flat in Paris under someone else's name at which several sex parties took place — which proves his status as an "organiser" of the events, prosecutors have told his pimping trial.
And, yes, I was a married man at the time. Mr Strauss-Kahn admitted that sex-parties had taken place at the flat but he insisted that he had not organised then and he was not aware that any of the women invited were prostitutes. Pressed on his use of such a derogatory word, the former French politician appeared embarrassed for the first time since his cross-examination began on Tuesday. He rejected suggestions that the dismissive word implied that he knew that some of the women invited to a series of sex parties in were prostitutes.
DSK and three other people are accused of arranging sex parties with prostitutes in Brussels, Paris and Washington. But there is no longer any such law in France. A former prostitute claimed yesterday — echoing a similar claim made by another ex-prostitute on Tuesday — that she had been subjected to unwilling anal sex by the former IMF chief in a Brussels hotel in DSK did not deny either incident but said that, in both cases, the sexual act was consensual. I am beginning to realise that and I deplore it.
But I had no idea at the time that these experiences were so unpleasant as the women now say. She said that he had driven Mr Strauss-Kahn in her car to the hotel from a sex-club in the Belgian countryside and they had discussed her prostitution on the way.
If he had had asked me, I would have said no. Charges in that case were later dropped and a civil claim settled out of court.
