This week we got another glimpse into the sordid life of former Washingtonian Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who stepped down from the International Monetary Fund last May after sexual assault charges were filed against him by a New York City Sofitel Hotel maid. On Thursday, Strauss-Kahn — or “DSK” as he is known — was released after being interrogated for 32 hours by French authorities over his involvement with a French prostitution ring. Some of the indiscretions that that DSK admitted to (per his autobiography, he likes to call them “libertine soirees”) happened right here at our very own W Hotel, the day before Strauss-Kahn headed to New York and allegedly assaulted the maid in Manhattan.
Women from Northern France were flown in for the D.C. fetes, but Strauss-Kahn said that he didn’t know they were call-girls. (In France paying for sex isn’t a crime, but arranging paid-for sex is). Statements from the women were leaked throughout the French press including these gems: “We saw DSK twice at the Hotel W in mid May 2011,” a woman called Florence V. testified, according to the London-based newspaper the Independent. “I made love to DSK on each of these occasions … He was very charming with the women present.”
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A rep for the W Hotel had not comment.
