The France 24 website reports that former IMF (International Monetary Fund) Director Dominique Strauss-Khan admitted today (September 18, 2011) his encounter with a New York hotel maid had been a "moral failing," but insisted he had not tried to rape her.
The 62-year-old Socialist politician and economist -- who abandoned his plan to run for president of France next year -- also denied he had previously sexually assaulted two women in France who recently filed charges against him.
Interviewed by a woman friend of his wife on TF1 network news in Paris today, Strauss-Kahn said what happened in his seven-minute encounter with Nafissatou Diallo -- the maid he was acquitted of sexually assaulting in a New York hotel -- was a "moral failing of which I am not proud," but insisted police found "no scratches, no wounds, no sign of violence" on the maid's body.
He did not elaborate on what had precisely occurred with Diallo in his hotel suite. Diallo's French lawyer called Strauss-Kahn's interview "a public relations exercise."
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