Things aren’t getting any easier for Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the embattled former head of the International Monetary Fund. After being arrested on rape charges in New York City in May, 2011, Strauss-Kahn (or DSK, as he is known) had the charges dropped after holes in the rape case became too glaring to allow prosecution to move forward. But today, DSK has been arrested by French police for “complicity in pimping” after he admitted to attending sex parties around the world. He also faces serious questioning about the business nature of the money being used to pay for the prostitutes who worked these sex parties. Prosecutors hope to prove that DSK knew that “fraudulently obtained money was being paid to the prostitutes,” and that he did nothing to stop it.
His defence? He denies knowing that the women who worked these parties (some of whom are rumoured to be underage) were, well – working at all, in fact. “The unorthodox defence,” noted the Daily Mail, “comes amid allegations that his mobile phone records showed he had relationships with at least 10 call girls” from France and Belgium. So, DSK must have thought these women were simply dying to have sex with his 62-year-old body without getting anything but the honour of having sex with him in return? Likely.
Also, DSK’s defence attorney, Henri Leclerc, had an amazing Johnny Cochran moment when he claimed that “at these parties, people were not necessarily dressed, and I defy you to tell the difference between a naked prostitute and any other naked woman.”
Touché, Leclerc. Well played.
Wanna know the worst part of it? That despite having the worst 12 months of his life, having his name become synonymous with high-profile rape, prostitution, and the ability of the wealthy to avoid prosecution for their crimes, DSK sticks with his bourgeois snootiness in claiming that while he has taken part in orgies, “he never paid a centime’ for it. I have a horror of prostitutes and pimping.”
