NEW YORK — Dominique Strauss-Kahn claimed Monday he has diplomatic immunity and asked a New York court to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the hotel maid who says he sexually assaulted her. Attorneys for the former International Monetary Fund leader filed the motion in a Bronx court, arguing judges there do not have the ability […]
NEW YORK — After the rape case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn fell apart, many people have been pointing figures at the accuser, Nafissatou Diallo. Still there are many political and social reasons the case was dropped, including the drastically different backgrounds of the accuser and the accused. The Daily Beast Reports: And Diallo? Her biography is, […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors in New York have filed papers recommending that some or all charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn be dropped. The filing in the sexual assault case against the former International Monetary Fund leader was not immediately made public and details weren’t released. The hotel housekeeper accusing Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexually assaulting her […]
NEW YORK–The lawyer of the hotel maid who accused former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault denied claims on Friday that he demanded money to secure her silence. “The allegation against me is absolutely false,” Kenneth Thompson, lawyer for Nafissatou Diallo, told the New York Daily News. The attacks against Diallo are […]
While Nafissatou Diallo is currently positioned in the national spotlight for accusing Dominique Strauss-Kahn of rape, some are more fixated on her new “attack”: a makeover. Diallo, who walked into the Brooklyn Christian Cultural Center yesterday with patent-leather pumps, was unrecognizable from her previous public appearances. But who made waves yesterday was her lawyer, Ken […]
As the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case continues to unfold, his accuser Nafissatou Diallo is caught in an old, deplorable game of demonizing the woman — and Black women in particular — as sexual aggressors and prostitutes. The media’s continued assault on her character practically forced her to come forward, defend her character and profess her truth. […]
The hotel maid who says Dominque Strauss-Kahn tried to rape her may have compromised her legal case by doing an interview with Newsweek Magazine. Nafissatou Diallo broke her silence Monday, revealing details of the case. The New York Times says it is “virtually unheard of” for a person alleging sexual assault to identify herself during […]
Her name is Nafissatou Diallo and it’s now her turn to share her side of what happened that fateful night in New York City’s Sofitel Hotel. The hotel maid who is accusing former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of rape, has finally broken her silence. In a pair of interviews with ABC’s Good Morning America and […]
The jailed drug dealer whose phone chat with a Manhattan maid damaged the case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn says the woman is no hooker – she’s his fiancé, according to The NY Daily News. The Daily Reports: “A good lady, very honest,” Amara Tarawally told Newsweek/The Daily Beast in an interview at a federal detention center […]
Prosecutors will agree to drop rape charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn due to claims that the accuser, the Guinean hotel maid, was engaging in prostitution, according to NYPost.com. The defense claims that Strauss-Kahn admittedly engaged in consensual sex with the maid, but she turned against him after he didn’t pay her. The maid’s credibility came into […]
Prosecutors have agreed to release ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss Kahn from house arrest after questions began to arise about the Sofitel maid’s rape accusation. Kahn will recoup his bail money, but will be unable to travel outside of the country. Sources close to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office say recent revelations about the maid’s claims […]
The African maid accusing former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of rape at a New York hotel, could never have imagined becoming the subject of an international news story. The woman, whose name and age remain under lock and key, was born in a mud hut in an isolated hamlet in Africa with no electricity or […]
