According to online reports, the most luxurious residential hotel in New York City has pulled its rental agreement to house accused rapist Dominique Strauss-Kahn until his trial.
Strauss-Kahn, 63, was dragged off a jet early Sunday and arrested for allegedly raping a hotel maid. The horny Frenchman, whose sordid reputation for groping women rivals only Arnold Schwarzenegger’s, tried to hightail it back to his native France where he was expected to run for President next year.
The commercial airliner was just minutes from departing Kennedy Airport when the NYPD swarmed the plane.
A Manhattan judge set Strauss-Kahn’s bail at $6 million — $1 million of that in cash.
Strauss-Kahn’s third wife, art heiress Anne Sinclair, paid the $1 million in cash plus a $5 million secured bond for his release. But the judge granted bail with stringent conditions. Under the terms of his bail, Strauss-Kahn had to find a temporary residence that will accommodate video cameras and armed security guards who have orders to take him down if he attempts to flee.
So Sinclair agreed to pay the posh Bristol Plaza hotel $200,000 per month to house him. But the Plaza backed out of the deal at the last minute today once it discovered Strauss-Kahn would be staying there.
The beautiful 32-year-old maid, identified by various news outlets as Nafissatou D., said she was minding her own business cleaning up Strauss-Kahn’s multi-room suite, when he emerged from the bathroom naked and chased her down the hallway in the suite. He yanked her into a bedroom, where he raped her, according to a police report.
Police found DNA evidence of the frenzied sexual assault all over Strauss-Kahn’s hotel room.
Strauss-Kahn is now the former managing director of the IMF. He was forced to resign from his position on Wednesday as he sat behind bars at Riker’s Island where he has been on suicide watch.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy is rumored to have warned Strauss-Kahn to avoid being alone in a room with “interns” while he was staying in New York.
Strauss-Kahn, who was hired to run the IMF in 2007, received a base salary of $420,930 a year, and a generous “living allowance” of $73,350 a year. The IMF board of directors released a statement dismissing rampant speculation that he will receive a pension of $250,000 a year for life.
“The annual payments would be far, far less than that amount in subsequent years,” it said.
The International Monetary Fund is like a gigantic piggy bank into which member countries, including the United States, deposit billions of dollars geared toward stabilizing the world economy. China, Brazil, South Korea and South Africa are also member countries of the IMF. Europe has led the IMF since its inception in 1944. The U.S. holds the #2 position.
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