The hotel maid and Guinean immigrant who is accusing former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault has revealed herself in dual interviews: In a bid to counter suggestions that she was lying and tabloid speculation that she's a "hooker", 32-year-old Nafissatou "Nafi" Diallo spoke to Newsweek about her ordeal in a three-hour session at her attorney's offices in Midtown. "Because of him they call me a prostitute," she says, "I want him to go to jail. I want him to know there are some places you cannot use your power, you cannot use your money." And in an interview with ABC News, Diallo says, "God is my witness I'm telling the truth. From my heart. God knows that." more ›

A few months before they were accused of raping a drunk East Village woman in her apartment, the two police officers charged (and found not guilty) in the incident had another questionable encounter with an inebriated young woman in the neighborhood, the Village Voice reports. The unidentified woman, who was 21 at the time, was interviewed by investigators looking into the rape charges, but the jurors never heard about the incident in court. Here are the broad strokes: more ›

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the International Monetary Fund and leading French politician, pleaded not guilty to charges to sexually assaulting a maid at a Time Square hotel on May 14. When he walked into the courthouse, witnesses told CityRoom that protesters from the hotel workers union yelled, "Shame on you!" more ›

While Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the French millionaire head of the IMF, has been put on suicide watch in a wing of Rikers Island, the ever classy New York Post took the story in about as ugly a direction as a story about a powerful man allegedly forcing himself on a hotel maid could go. "Dominique Strauss-Kahn may have more to worry about than a possible prison sentence," the tabloid's front page story screamed today. "The IMF chief's alleged sex-assault victim lives in a Bronx apartment rented exclusively for adults with HIV or AIDS." The paper's non-relevant charges were immediately derided as "outrageous" by the 32-year-old maid's lawyer on The Today Show this morning. more ›

Earlier today, Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, was accused of molestation and rape in Sweden. But then the Swedish prosecutors changed their minds! At first, according to the Guardian, "Swedish authorities have issued an arrest warrant" and a spokeswoman for Swedish prosecutors "said Assange should contact the Swedish police for questioning about the accusations of molestation and rape in two separate cases 'so that he can be confronted with the suspicions'." However, Assange says, via the WikiLeaks Twitter, "the charges are without basis and their issue at this moment is deeply disturbing." And now, the warrant has been revoked! more ›

More details have emerged about Mets pitching ace Johan Santana's alleged sexual battery incident. According to the Smoking Gun, Santana admitted to police in Florida that he had engaged in consensual sexual intercourse with the unnamed woman near a golf course last year. more ›

Mets ace Johan Santana was accused in a police report last year of sexual battery, according to documents unearthed by TMZ today. The two time Cy Young award winner wasn't prosecuted, since detectives did not believe there was enough evidence to pursue the case. more ›

Yesterday, three teens accused of sexually assaulting a woman in Central Park were released after authorities decided they would not be able to press charges, because the accuser's memory was not reliable and her story changed a few times. One of the teens, Kelvin Dalrymple, told the Daily News, "They should put her face all over the media. I can't go to school with people calling me a rapist. My name and reputation are destroyed. My life is not the same." more ›

More disturbing details about the State Police's involvement in an alleged domestic abuse incident concerning a close aide to Governor Paterson. The NY Times reports that the aide, David Johnson, "reached out to the commander of the governor’s State Police detail the day after an altercation with his girlfriend and asked the commander to call the woman, according to a person briefed on the commander’s actions." The commander, Major Charles Day, was authorized by his superior "to contact the woman, the person briefed on the sequence of events said, and Major Day did so on at least three occasions." more ›

On Tuesday, former WABC 7 sportscaster Marvell Scott pleaded not guilty to charges including statutory rape of a 14-year-old girl, with his lawyer claiming that he had been set up by a child prostitute and a pimp. Now Scott is speaking out, telling the Post, "I will definitely be vindicated in court. I have no doubt in my mind." more ›

Did the NY Times's Governor Paterson "bombshell" finally explode? Last night the paper dropped a long article about how a Bronx woman accused her companion, Paterson's longtime aide David Johnson, of abuse—but then abandoned legal action after she was allegedly harassed by state troopers, and received a personal phone call from the Governor. The assault allegedly occurred in the unidentified woman's apartment, which she shared with her 13-year-old son, on Halloween night 2009. The Times had mentioned the attack in their first piece, but now we get the full, appalling reveal: more ›

A chef at the penthouse lounge 230 Fifth was arrested on Halloween after allegedly forcing himself on a Canadian woman dressed as a sexy lion. As the club's party was winding down at 3 a.m. on Sunday, 28-year-old Carlos Angel "pounced" on the woman as she came out of a restroom and shoved her back inside, sources say. He kissed her repeatedly while groping her, but she managed to slip away and alert a manager—who actually did the right thing by calling the police, not trying to hush it up! more ›

Nearly a week after an 18-year-old Hofstra student claimed that five men raped her in a dormitory bathroom—only to later admit the story was fake—the freshman may face charges for her lies, which put four of the "suspects" behind bars for two days. more ›

While many have been insinuating that Nick Haramis is nothing more than a burger-eating boy who cried wolf, Grub Street reports that following an internal investigation the owner has decided to suspend the alleged gay-bashing employee even though he questions Haramis's claims. more ›

The 24-year-old who says five police officers sodomized him with a police walkie-talkie last week spoke to the Daily News from his hospital bed. Michael Mineo, who was re-hospitalized, said, "The cops did this to me... I'm in so much pain... I've got pus coming out of me, man. I need help!" And the NY Post has photographs of Mineo being visited by the Reverend Al Sharpton, who called for an investigation into the matter and compared it to the Abner Louima incident. more ›