The one-time French presidential hopeful, who has described seeking “recreation” from the stress of world politics by having rough sex with strangers at orgies in Europe and the US, was found not to have promoted or profited from the prostitution of seven women.
The judges said there was no proof he knew that some of the women he had sex with at orgies were prostitutes. Throughout his trial, he maintained that he had not known that some of the partners brought to him by business friends at group-sex sessions had been paid, saying he thought they were merely “swingers” like himself. The businessmen told the women who had sex with Strauss-Kahn not to say they had been paid.
The wide-reaching trial in the northern French city of Lille revealed a saga of money,fame and women travelling to luxury locations for sex with powerful men against a backdrop of economic deprivation and social misery.
A French court has acquitted Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief, of aggravated pimping charges.
The 66-year-old nodded his head in court in Lille on Friday June 12,2015 in acknowledgement of the verdict which found him not guilty of procuring prostitutes to take part in sex parties in Paris, Brussels and Washington.
Known as the Carlton affair, the case began in 2011 as an investigation into an alleged prostitution network at Lille’s smart Hotel Carlton, where women — described by the men that ran them as “livestock” or “dossiers” — had been offered up as the “dessert course” at business lunches. Strauss-Kahn was never involved in any alleged activity at the hotel, but when his name was mentioned by sex-workers in interviews with investigators, the inquiry was widened.
Thirteen other men appeared in court on pimping charges, many with no connection to Strauss-Kahn, but the high-profile coverage of the case centred on the former IMF chief and how he sought “recreation” from managing the fallout from the global financial crisis by having sex with strangers brought to him at orgies by businessmen keen to curry favour.
The trial exposed not only Strauss Kahn’s secret double-life, but also the economic deprivation and harrowing accounts of some of the women he had sex with
The trial was marked by the tearful accounts of two destitute and vulnerable prostitutes who were among the women ferried to locations in Paris, Brussels and Washington to have sex with Strauss-Kahn. They likened the orgies to “slaughter”, “killing” and “butchery”. The former IMF chief told the trial that he had regrettably discovered during the court hearings that he had “a sexuality that was rougher than the average man” but that he believed “no means no”.
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