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Woman arrested over sex tape that sank Paris mayoral candidate

Sun, 16 Feb 2020 13:10:17 +0100

French police have arrested the girlfriend of a Russian activist who released a sex video of a prominent ally of French President Emmanuel Macron, prosecutors said on Sunday.

DSK denies 'problem with women' in rare interview

Thu, 11 Jul 2013 10:36:00 +0200

Disgraced former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, by has claimed he doesn't have "any kind of problems with women," in an extended version of his interview with CNN, his first in English since being accused of rape in 2011.

Ex-minister sues over Trierweiler affair claim

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 18:55:46 +0200

A French former minister on Monday asked a court to award him €140,000 damages over a claim in a best-selling book that he had an affair with Valerie Trierweiler, the glamorous girlfriend of President François Hollande.

Sarkozy party denies plot to ruin Strauss-Kahn

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 10:33:00 +0100

French President Nicolas Sarkozy's party on Sunday rejected as "grotesque" suggestions that Dominique Strauss-Kahn was brought down by an elaborate plot to wreck his presidential ambitions.

DSK scandal to be made into porn film

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:35:29 +0100

The scandal surrounding the former IMF boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn is to be turned into a porn film, with the producers asking members of the public to help fund the project.