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A BELGIAN PROSTITUTE has alleged that she was forced to have group sex with Dominique Strauss-Kahn and three of his friends in December 2010.
The former IMF boss is currently being investigated because of alleged ties to a prostitution ring. He was charged late last month.
Police in Lille are investigating whether female prostitutes were supplied to luxury hotels in France and Belgium in a case which has already implicated police and other local officials.
According to Reuters investigators are now extending their inquiry after a prostitute alleged that gang rape took place in Washington in 2010. A formal complaint has not been filed but the BBC reports that prosecutors are deciding about whether or not to expand the original investigation.
Strauss-Kahn stepped down as the head of the IMF in May 2011 after a maid at a New York hotel alleged that he sexually assaulted him. The charges were dismissed last August but this week
Earlier this week a judge in New York ruled that a civil case taken by the maid can go ahead. Strauss-Kahn has said that he was set up in the aftermath of the scandal.
and someone who is not a prostitute is less likely to lie / be bribed? the fact that the person is a prostitute has nothing to do with the allegation
is there any end to this guys exploits?
And any end to his persecution…
Someone is determined to get him.
Was it doggy- style? Woof
At dubinnass yes the girls he raped want to get him and they want justice
It’s not rape when you go to the room knowing what is going to happen (I’m going to assume that the four of them didn’t drag her up there) and you get paid for it.
It’s rape if the person says “No” and the other person doesn’t stop….prostitutes can be raped too !!
What if someone is lured under false pretences or changes their mind and says no thanks I’d rather eat glass than have sex with 4 over weight over paid old men?
You haven’t a clue Sean
yes and no Paul. of course they should be allowed change their minds. but on the grounds that someone was fat? er.. they wouldnt be working at all in that case mate..
Poppy…how much do they charge for that?!
These arent going to be like your average D7 junkie brazzers. Rich men pay brazzers big money.
Prostitutes can of course be raped. Just because they are profiting from the sexual encounter does not give the client to behave with disrespect or outright criminality.
But they are criminals themselves.
Sean: not according to Irish law.
Innocent until proven guilty. Unless you’re a Frenchman accused of salacious behaviour, obviously. ;)
Not in the french legal system, guilty until proven innocent there.
You know this guy really up set the wrong people…I remember Bill Clinton backed Lady Diana in landmines charities…6 weeks later they were trying to impeach him..strange it all went away after that fatal crash..some powerful people out there.
Come to think of it, I remember i had my bike stolen at around the same time. I can only assume the events were linked.
Spot on Cliff
Good job the French Socialists didn’t nominate him for President. He would have been the French version of Silvio Berlusconi.
Aren’t we lucky here that our lot are more interested in lining their trousers than filling their boots (I mean with huars)
Jay, give us a hint….
A prostitute still has the right to say no she may have gone to the room to have sex but been unaware of the other men or indeed they may have fantasies that they wanted played out that she was uncomfortable with. Its people like you Sean that make assumptions that just because she is a prostitutes that she cannot be raped. She is selling a commodity under certain conditions and to (for want of a better way to put it) take that commodity under false pretences etc and not pay for that “service” is something even you can understand.
the DSK’s of the world think they’re untouchable
Dominique Diggler
Hey Clifford my point was not that these were linked .it is that it doesn’t matter who you are,but if you go against the powers that be! .You’re going to get your wings clipped….shame about your bike!
“the right” missing from last post
Is there something wrong with you? It is the entire allegation.
Right… Hello police?!..I’ve been raped..1 and a half year ago. C’mon people don’t be naive. And because of that genuine claims sometimes are ignored.
@ Audrius 1) have you ever been Raped? 2) and tell me what is the time scale do you reckon this girl should have notified the Police? 3) I wish you luck that no crime ever knocks at your door because of the effects of trauma crime may not even reported for sometime so walk in another’s shoes and see and even understand a situation…. And grow up too
@Bernadette…I’m not talking about a rape per se … I’m talking about this case..this man was accused first time .. Which we all know was total BS… And now this.. If you really buying this tale that means you should grow up.
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