Acccording to the NY Post, the chambermaid who accused Dominique Strauss-Khan of sexually assaulting her in a swanky hotel suite in May, was, in fact, a hooker who provided sexual services in addition to her housekeeping duties.

Strauss-Kahn, 63, was dragged off a commercial jet at Kennedy airport on May 15, and arrested for allegedly raping a hotel maid. A Manhattan judge set Strauss-Kahn’s bail at $6 million — $1 million of that in cash. After spending a week in jail on suicide watch, he was subsequently released to home confinement at considerable expense to his long suffering wife, who traveled from her home in France to bail him out.

But the maid, 32-year-old Nafissatou Diallo, has since been outed by defense attorneys, and the NY Post, as a hooker who lied on her application for asylum in the U.S. Diallo allegedly lied about being gang raped in Guinea.

Strauss-Khan was set free on his own recognizance yesterday. The smear campaign against Diallo got off to a running start almost immediately after Strauss-Khan was arrested.

In short order we learned that Diallo was probably HIV+ because she lived in a flop house specifically for HIV+ residents.

According to the Post, Diallo was “collecting cash on the side from male guests” at the luxury Sofitel hotel in NYC where she worked. “There is information . . . of her getting extraordinary tips” from hotel guests, according to the Post.

“When you’re a chambermaid at Local 6, when you first get to the US, you start at the motels at JFK [Airport]. You don’t start at the Sofitel,” a source told the Post. “There’s a whole squad of people who saw her as an earner.”

The woman also had “a lot of her expenses — hair braiding, salon expenses — paid for by men not related to her,” the source said.

Diallo made a decent living on wages and tips — over $100,000 — that she deposited into her bank account, according to the NY Post.

If the Post’s sources are correct, and the sex was a business transaction between Diallo and Strauss-Khan — what went wrong? Did he not pay her for services provided?

Now the former head of the IMF is being portrayed by the press, and his defense attorneys, as an innocent victim of a gold digging hooker — despite the fact that he left his biological calling card — in the form of semen — on Diallo’s maid uniform the day he was arrested.

Allegations that she worked as a hotel hooker may explain why Strauss-Kahn insists their encounter was consensual. His defense attorneys refused yesterday to comment on the damning evidence — or say whether he paid her for sex. Source

If anything, Strauss-Kahn lived up to his lecherous reputation for groping women and being a pervert. Although in this case it appears that the sex was a consensual business transaction.

Despite all that has transpired over the last month, the French people are seriously considering electing this guy for president next year — which speaks to their low morals, or lack thereof.