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| The pair, who had been together 20 years, have broken up as Strauss-Kahn prepares for further court appearances |
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The long-suffering wife of Dominique Strauss-Kahn has finally left him, it was confirmed last night.
After months of loyal support in the face of seedy vice allegations, Anne Sinclair kicked the former International Monetary Fund boss out of their Paris home.
The split happened a month ago but Ms Sinclair, a 64-year-old art heiress and internet journalist, initially managed to keep it quiet.But as the now unemployed Mr Strauss-Kahn, 63, prepared for further court appearances, he confirmed the separation.
‘They are no longer living as man and wife,’ said a source close to Mr Sinclair, who at one stage was being tipped to become Socialist president of France.Instead his career was ruined when, in May 2011, a New York chamber maid accused him of attempted rape.
He was later cleared in a criminal court, but admitted that a sex act had taken place, and the maid is now pursuing a civil case against him.
Ms Sinclair, who has been with Mr Strauss-Kahn for 20 years, initially offered him unquestioning support but this began to waver as allegations mounted up.They included a French writer saying that Mr Strauss-Kahn had tried to rape her in a Paris flat.
Then prosecutors opened an investigation into a vice ring based in northern France in which Mr Strauss-Kahn is implicated. Highly-paid young prostitutes said to have travelled to cities like Paris to take part in ‘sex parties’ with Mr Strauss-Kahn and other men.
There is even a particularly serious allegation that Mr Strauss-Kahn gang raped one of the women in a hotel in Washington DC.
Also under investigation are: Jean-Christophe Lagarde, a former police chief from Lille ; David Roquet, head of a subsidiary of the Eiffage building giant ; and another businessman called Fabrice Paszkowski , who is said to have regularly exchanged SMS text messages with Mr Strauss-Kahn. Strauss-Kahn, in turn, has told police that there was ‘no brutality’ involved in any of the orgies, and that he did not even know the women were vice girls.
Earlier this year he was denied diplomatic immunity from being sued over the alleged attempted rape in New York.
In a ruling handed down in Bronx Supreme Court, Justice Douglas McKeon threw out a motion to have the civil case dismissed, raising the prospect of a New York trial.
Mr Strauss-Kahn is accused of attempting to rape hotel employee Nafissatou Diallo, 33, at Manhattan’s Sofitel Hotel.
She claims that the married Frenchman ran at her naked, molested her and forced her to perform oral sex on him after she entered his suite to clean it.
The claims led to a criminal investigation against Mr Strauss-Kahn and his house arrest in New York, but charges were dropped.
Ms Sinclair, who used to present programmes on French TV, this year relaunched her media career as an editor on the Huffington Post website’s French edition.
Referring to Mr Strauss-Kahn, a source told Reuters earlier this month: ‘He's in a bad way. It's very sad’. He's mostly just at home on his own while Anne is out and about with her new job. He's shunned by everybody.'
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| Source: dailymail.co.uk |
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