A Bronx judge has ruled that former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn cannot claim diplomatic immunity in a civil case from a hotel maid. According the Post, Judge Douglas McKeon wrote, "Confronted with well-stated law that his voluntary resignation from the IMF terminated any immunity which he enjoyed… Mr. Strauss-Khan, threw [legally speaking that is] his own version of a Hail Mary pass." more ›

You know how former IMF head (and horrible hotel guest) Dominique Strauss-Kahn was being investigated for his involvement in a prostitution ring in France? Well, now prosecutors have charged him with "aggravated pimping." Is that like Kramer wearing the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat? more ›

Because Gerard Depardieu will be playing a Dominique Strauss-Kahn-type figure in an upcoming film by Abel Ferrara, it's important to see why Depardieu is considered one of the greatest French actors of all time. For instance, here he is, reliving his infamous pissing-all-over-a-plane incident from last year—he even reenacted how the flight attendant freaked out! more ›

Gerard Depardieu, acclaimed actor and noted plane pisser, is discussing his upcoming film based on infamous pussyhound Dominique Strauss-Kahn. And Gerard is getting pretty real: "I don't like him, so I'll do it. He's not lovable. I think he's a bit like all the French, a bit arrogant. I don't much like the French anyway ... He's very French. Arrogant, smug." more ›

Former IMF head and the Sofitel's most infamous guest Dominique Strauss-Kahn is under investigation by authorities in his native country for his involvement in a prostitution ring. BBC News reports that authorities have summoned him for questioning next week, and he can be detained for as long as 48 hours. more ›

Someone should tell the MTA that not all contract negotiations have to get serious after a contract has expired. Sometimes, they can wrap the whole thing up months before—and they can even include good news for employees. Take hotel workers, for instance. If their new contract is ratified on Monday (months before the old one ends) not only will workers start making more, but some of them will be getting outfitted with personal panic buttons—to try and prevent DSK 2: The Wrath Of Kahn, naturally. more ›

This has the potential to be the greatest movie of all time: Deadline reports that writer-director Abel Ferrara has be working on a script "partly inspired by this summer’s sex scandal surrounding former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn." Also: "Gérard Depardieu and Isabelle Adjani have been rumored circling characters based on the scandal-plagued former IMF chief and his wife Anne Sinclair and have met with the director." more ›

Was Dominique Strauss-Kahn framed by Nicolas Sarkozy's UMP party? Journalist Edward Jay Epstein sure seems to think so, and lays out several "mysteries" in the New York Review Of Books surrounding the downfall of the man who many believed would be the next president of France. more ›

"Oh, sh*t! JUSTICE is here?" Harlem rapper A$AP Rocky and his entourage leapt over the ottomans and coffee tables in the makeshift lounge set up for talent at the Creators Project on Saturday. The French duo, who were to appear for a DJ set to promote their upcoming album, Audio, Video, Disco, had moments before been sitting quietly in the far corner of the room speaking to the endless parade of media. Now they were engulfed in one-finger salutes and raised glasses for a impromptu photo-op. "Yeah, son! Motherf*cking JUSTICE! Motherf*cking A$AP Rocky! That's right!" more ›

Nothing sticks to Dominique Strauss-Kahn! French prosecutors have decided to end its sex assault investigation on the French Socialist politician and former head of the International Monetary Fund "for lack of sufficient proof." more ›

Former head of the IMF and potential president of France Dominique Strauss-Kahn conducted his first interview since his arrest on May 14 for allegedly sexually assaulting a hotel maid at the Sofitel. "What happened was more than an inappropriate reaction. It was an error," he said. "I regret it infinitely." more ›

Dominique Strauss-Kahn might be back in France, far away from his Big Apple arrest-turned-Law & Order: SVU episode sex assault allegations, but that just means he has to face the French woman who accuses him of trying to rape her in 2002. Now, a French newspaper claims that Strauss-Kahn has admitted to trying to come on to the young woman. more ›

Sexual assault charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn were dismissed yesterday because, as the prosecution put it, "If we do not believe her beyond a reasonable doubt, we cannot ask a jury to do so." Now, because of her lies to a grand jury, the prosecution, and the federal government, it's possible that Nafissatou Diallo will face deportation hearings. "Lying on sworn statements is almost a guarantee the case will be reopened," one lawyer tells the Daily News. Another immigration attorney says, "With all the press attention, my educated guess is that they are going to look at her case again." more ›

Earlier today a judge officially dismissed the sexual assault charges against former IMF leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn. A motion filed by his accuser's attorney, Kenneth Thompson, to appoint a special prosecutor was denied, and then appealed, but the appeals court later agreed with the initial judge in that it "had no legal basis," the Times reports. more ›

As Dominique Strauss-Kahn prepares to appear in court today for the expected dismissal of criminal sexual assault charges against him, yesterday's meeting between prosecutors and his accuser Nafissatou Diallo was reportedly a curt one. "Nafi, we're going to dismiss the case. You have lied to us repeatedly. We can't win," assistant district attorney Joan Illuzi-Orbon apparently said, according to Diallo's attorney Kenneth Thompson. The meeting "lasted no more than 30 seconds," Thompson tells the Times. more ›

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr. has officially filed papers requesting the dismissal of sexual assault charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn. The Times reports that the filing came after a brief meeting between prosecutors and attorney Kenneth Thompson, who represents Strauss-Kahn's accuser and former hotel maid Nafissatou Diallo. In a statement near the Manhattan Supreme Court, Thompson told reporters that "District Attorney Cyrus Vance has denied the right of a woman to get justice in a rape case," the Post reports. more ›

While Dominique Strauss-Kahn's accuser isn't set to meet with prosecutors until 3 p.m. today, Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance, Jr. has "decided to ask a judge to dismiss the case," the Times reports. more ›

Dominique-Strauss Kahn's accuser, Nafissatou Diallo, will meet with Manhattan prosecutors on Monday afternoon for what her attorney describes as a conference "to announce that they're dismissing the case entirely, or some of the charges." Diallo's attorney, Kenneth Thompson, who has been waging a media campaign with his client to pressure Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance to move forward with the sexual assault case, tells the Times, "If they were not going to dismiss the charges, there could be no need to meet with her." Strauss-Kahn is due in court on Tuesday. more ›

The legal saga of Nafissatou Diallo, the hotel maid who is accusing former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn of a violent sexual assault, continues. Today, the Wall Street Journal and Daily Beast published articles reporting that Diallo's lawyer was seeking a financial settlement with Strauss-Kahn's lawyers. more ›

Attorneys for Dominique-Strauss Kahn's accuser have released the medical report completed at the hospital hours after Nafissatou Diallo alleged that Strauss-Kahn sexually assaulted her in his Sofitel suite on May 14. According to Reuters, the report curtly sums up what Diallo has been alleging all along: "Cause of the injuries: assault. Rape." more ›

Socialite Gigi Jordan was arrested for allegedly killing her 8-year-old son in a failed murder-suicide at the Peninsula Hotel. She's been in police custody since February 2010, and yesterday her lawyers, the high-profile team of Alan Dershowitz and Ron Kuby, failed in getting her out on super-expensive bail when they pointed out that alleged sexual assault suspect Dominique Strauss-Kahn got bail. In other words, alleged sexual assault is not the same as alleged filicide. more ›

As the criminal sexual assault charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn remain in limbo until his next court hearing on August 23, his accuser, Nafissatou Diallo filed a civil suit against Strauss-Kahn on Monday detailing the alleged "violent, sadistic attack." Perhaps the most important part of the lawsuit is where she filed it: in the Bronx. "There isn't a worse forum in the United States for Dominique Strauss-Kahn than the Bronx," an ex-prosecutor tells the Daily News, describing what some in the bar believe to the the "Bronx effect—a long-held notion that Bronx jurors are more generous to plaintiffs than those in other boroughs." more ›

The hotel maid who claims that Dominique Strauss-Kahn tried to rape her in a Times Square hotel suite filed a civil lawsuit against the former IMF head yesterday. The suit, which called the alleged attack "violent and sadistic," says, "[Nafissatou] Diallo now brings this lawsuit to vindicate her rights, to assert her dignity as a woman, to hold Dominique Strauss-Kahn accountable for the violent and deplorable acts that he committed against her in Room 2806 [the luxury suite at the Sofitel], to teach her young [15-year-old] daughter that no man—regardless of how much money, power and influence he has—should ever be allowed to violate her body, and to stand up for all women who have been raped, sexually assaulted and/or abused throughout the world but who are too afraid to speak out.” more ›

Members of the End Rape NYPD and NOW-NYC held a protest in Foley Square last night to coincide with the sentencing of Kenneth Moreno, who was given 1 year in prison for misdemeanor official misconduct, despite being acquitted of rape in May. Both groups are asking for Police Commissioner Ray Kelly to implement a comprehensive training program on rape, sexual assault, a proper police conduct. "The justice system did all it can do," protest organizer Amy Klein told us, "Now it's up to Ray Kelly to enact these logical steps to ensure that this never happens again, and that women who report sexual assault are taken seriously." more ›

We receive a lot of e-mail. Most of these missives are carefully read, discussed at length among the editors, and courteously replied to in a timely fashion—except for the ones that are so bizarre and irrelevant that we're simply afraid to engage the sender. Instead, we'll share them with you. Behold, the eccentric underbelly of the Gothamist inbox: more ›

As Dominique Strauss-Kahn's accuser Nafissatou Diallo wages her media campaign to press the Manhattan DA's office to prosecute the former IMF head for sexual assault, an ex-lover of Strauss-Kahn's tells Swiss magazine L'illustré that Diallo's attorneys contacted her and asked her if Strauss-Kahn was ever violent, or if he forced her to have an abortion. "The questions were truly salacious, surgical. He proposed that I meet his client. I refused," the woman identified as Marie-Victorine M. told the magazine. "What is violence? A man who pushes you against a wall and who hugs you, is that violent?" she asks, "For me, this is not violent…neither physically nor verbally." more ›

Yesterday, the hotel maid who is accusing former IMF head Dominque Strauss-Kahn of attempted rape and forcing her to perform oral sex met with the Manhattan DA's office to discuss the case. While the Manhattan DA's office believes its case against Strauss-Kahn is on shaky ground enough to agree that he should be free on bail, a lawyer for Nafissatou Diallo the DA's office misinterpreted a recording that supposedly implied Diallo may have been trying to shake down the powerful Frenchman. And not only that, Diallo will also sue Strauss-Kahn. more ›