Dominique Strauss-Kahn accuser adds gender violence to civil lawsuit

Nafissatou Diallo uses recent New York law to argue alleged sex attack by former IMF head reflected his hatred towards women

Dominique Strauss-Kahn and his accuser in a sexual assault case, Nafissatou Diallo.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn's accuser in a sexual assault lawsuit has filed new claims that the alleged attack amounted to gender violence.

Strauss-Kahn was arrested in May 2011 after maid Nafissatou Diallo said he tried to rape her and forced her to perform oral sex in his Manhattan hotel suite. The married Strauss-Kahn, 63, has said what happened was consensual but represented a "moral failing".

Manhattan prosecutors later dropped the criminal charges, saying they had developed concerns about Diallo's credibility. Strauss-Kahn lost his job as head of the International Monetary Fund and his bid to run for the French presidency.

Diallo, in a civil sexual assault case against Strauss-Kahn, is saying his alleged actions reflected a pattern of misogynistic behaviour. New York City recently passed a law against gender-based violence and there have been other allegations made against Strauss-Kahn by women. Diallo's lawyers wrote in her latest claim: "Strauss-Kahn's conduct towards women generally is, and more specifically his sexual assault of Ms Diallo was, motivated by a gender-animus and a misogynistic attitude."

Strauss-Kahn's lawyers had no immediate comment.

Diallo, 33, insists she told the truth about the encounter and is now pressing her claims in civil court. So is Strauss-Kahn, who filed a $1m defamation claim against her last week, saying she had sullied his reputation with a "malicious and wanton false accusation".

Soon after his arrest in New York, the French writer Tristane Banon accused Strauss-Kahn of attempting to rape her during an interview in 2003, a claim he called imaginary and slanderous. Prosecutors said they believed the encounter qualified as a sexual assault but the legal timeframe to pursue her complaint had elapsed.

Then French authorities lodged preliminary charges of alleged aggravated pimping, claiming Strauss-Kahn was involved in a hotel prostitution ring including prominent figures and police in the northern city of Lille. Lille prosecutors have said they are looking into an allegation that Strauss-Kahn might have been involved in a rape during a sex party in a Washington hotel in 2010.

In response to the French investigation, Strauss-Kahn has acknowledged being involved in "libertine" activity but said he was unaware of anyone being paid for sex. His lawyers have said he "never committed violent acts nor had any relation whatsoever without the consent of his partners".

Diallo's lawyers allude in Tuesday's filing to all those allegations, as well as to an affair Strauss-Kahn had with an IMF subordinate. The agency's board concluded in 2008 that the relationship was consensual but that he had shown poor judgment.

SOURCE: guardian.co.

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