NEW
YORK: Disgraced former IMF chief and would-be French president Dominique
Strauss-Kahn will settle out of court with a Manhattan maid who accused him
of sexual assault, ending a sordid 18-month legal saga, reports say.
According
to the New York Times, quoting unidentified sources "with knowledge of
the matter," the 63-year-old French politician and the hotel maid,
Nafissatou Diallo, have "quietly reached an agreement to settle"
her lawsuit.
There
was not yet information about any payments by Strauss-Kahn and "no
settlement had yet been signed," the report said. Lawyers for the
parties are due to go before a judge in the Bronx next week, the newspaper
added.
NBC
television also reported the possible deal, confirming that it had yet to be
inked in.
Lawyers
for Strauss-Kahn and Diallo did not immediately respond to a request for
comment on the reports.
Strauss-Kahn,
who had been widely touted as a likely challenger to then president Nicolas
Sarkozy, suffered a stunning fall from grace following his arrest at a New
York hotel last year on the sex assault charges.
He
then faced a string of separate sex-related investigations in France.
Diallo
had sued Strauss-Kahn in New York civil court after prosecutors threw out
assault charges filed against the globe-trotting politician, saying the
maid's sex assault case would not stand up before a jury.
Although
Strauss-Kahn has since been mired in legal troubles and brought low by the
repeated tarnishing of his once stellar reputation, that initial downfall at
a posh Manhattan hotel in May 2011 came as a shocking surprise.
At
the time, Strauss-Kahn was jetting between world capitals as head of the
International Monetary Fund and was expected to announce what would have been
a formidable candidacy for the French presidency.
Diallo,
a maid at the Sofitel hotel, shattered that trajectory when she alleged the
powerful politician had leapt on her in his room, naked, and forced her to
perform oral sex upon him.
Strauss-Kahn
was arrested as he was about to take a flight back to Europe. He later
conceded that there had been a sexual encounter in the hotel room with the
cleaner, but insisted that this had been consensual.
The
subsequent court proceedings and a brief spell in New York's tough Rikers
Island detention center publicly humiliated Strauss-Kahn.
Then
it was the turn of the Manhattan District Attorney's office to face
embarrassment as they admitted that their case was falling part, with Diallo
being caught lying over several points.
Charges
were dropped and Strauss-Kahn left hurriedly for France, where his new bout
of legal problems were about to begin.
His
lawyers have repeatedly said they would not agree to a deal to pay off
Diallo, branding her a gold-digger. Diallo's lawyers have equally often
insisted that they only want their day in court to confront Strauss-Kahn.
Already
having left US territory, Strauss-Kahn tried to get off the hook by claiming
diplomatic immunity in the civil case. However a judge rejected that in May
.
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