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Strauss-Kahn admits swinging sex life but claims plot against him

Dominique Strauss-Kahn admits having a swinging sex life in a book by a French journalist, who claims the former IMF chief was kept in jail in New York thanks to a mysterious intervention from France after his arrest on sex assault charges.

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“I participated in swingers' nights, that's true,” Strauss-Kahn tells Michel Taubmann in his book Affaires DSK, la contre-enquête.
 

Strauss-Kahn’s name has been cited in the Carlton affair - a case involving a prostitution ring that allegedly serviced leading figures in the northern French town of Lille. But he claims that his behaviour is far from unique in political and business circles and denies knowing that any participants in the nights that he attended were prostitutes.

"When someone introduces you to his girlfriend, you do not ask him if she is a prostitute,” he tells Taubmann.

The trial of an alleged pimp said to be involved in the Carlton affair has been put off until 1 March, judges in the Belgian town of Tournai announced on Thursday.

Lawyers for Dominique Alderweireld, the self-proclaimed “king of the massage parlours” who is nicknamed “Dodo la Saumure”, say they will argue that the charges of running brothels should be dropped because police along the Franco-Belgian border have turned a blind eye to the practise for “several decades”.

Alderweireld, who claims not to know Strauss-Kahn, remains in jail on other charges.

 
Taubmann claims that New York police were ready to let Strauss-Kahn out on bail the day after his arrest but changed their minds after a mysterious phone call from France.

Several sources have confirmed that “information coming from France via judicial, diplomatic or police channels” led them to believe that Strauss-Kahn had form, he says.

US journalist Edward Jay Epstein links security staff at the French-based Accor group that owns the Sofitel hotel, where DSK was accused of assaulting chambermaid Nafassitou Diallo, to a possible plot to wreck Strauss-Kahn’s chances of challenging Nicolas Sarkozy in next year’s presidential election.

Former French anti-gang police officer, René-Georges Querry, is now a security boss in New York, he says in an article in the New York Review of Books, adding that a leaked email from Xavier Graff, who was on duty in Paris that weekend, claimed credit for “bringing down” Strauss-Kahn.
 

Security camera footage shows two men doing a dance, which could be interpreted as a victory celebration, after the accusations were made to police, Epstein says.

Both Epstein and Taubmann also say that Strauss-Kahn feared that his BlackBerry phone, which he had apparently lost at the hotel, was being hacked and raise the possibility that Diallo may have stolen it.

"Strauss-Kahn's absurd claim that Ms Diallo was told to steal his BlackBerry and somehow looked at him seductively and consented to his violent and abusive sexual acts is complete fantasy," Diallo’s lawyers said in a statement.

They, too, have produced security camera footage that allegedly shows Strauss-Kahn enter the hotel and go upstairs with a mysterious blonde woman, who left the hotel at 4.00 am.
 

They say they will find her and summon her to appear in court.

 

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