from SLATE: DSK Linked to French Prostitution Ring The former IMF chief denies accusations that he was among the ring’s high-profile clients. By Josh Voo rhees | Posted Monday, Oct. 17, 2011, at 11:36 AM ET
Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s alleged sex life has him back in the headlines. The former IMF chief is asking to speak to French police to squash reports that he was involved with an alleged prostitution ring in France and Belgium. Strauss-Kahn was linked to an ongoing investigation into the ring by a report in the Journal du Dimanche over the weekend that generated headlines on both sides of the Atlantic. The weekly newspaper claimed, among other things, that the French politician was one of the ring’s high-profile clients and that a French police officer was tasked with escorting its prostitutes from the city of Lille to New York to have sex with DSK. While the report did not suggest that Strauss-Kahn was a key figure in the suspected ring, it did report that he would likely be questioned by the police. One of Strauss-Kahn lawyers told the Associated Press that the French politician has not been contacted by detectives but that he is nonetheless asking to speak to police “to put an end to these insinuations and extrapolations.” Making the story that much more sensational is the fact that the ring allegedly involves underage girls – although there has been no suggestion that Strauss-Kahn was involved with any minors. Britain’s Sky News reports that investigators believe they have uncovered “a well-connected ring bringing women over the border from Belgium to have sex with wealthy clients in hotels in Lille.” According to Reuters, three managers at the luxury Carlton hotel in Lille have been detained in the past week and the hotel, along with two others, has been temporarily shuttered during the investigation. -- Jim Devine / "In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness." -- George Bernard Shaw _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
