It was reported that DSK had an alibi for when he allegedly sexually assaulted a hotel maid. But it now seems he was not having lunch with his daughter, as the alibi suggested.
Initially it was believed the maid arrived at DSK's room at 1330. DSK left his room at 1228 and left the hotel at 1245 to meet his daughter for lunch, in which case DSK could not have committed the sexual assault.
But now the maid is believed to have arrived at the room at 1200, making the sexual assault possible.
And it now appears that DSK will claim the assault was consensual.
These kind of people really do live in a completely different world to the rest of us.
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From http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/dominique-strauss-kahn/8519339/Dominique-Strauss-Kahn-sexual-contact-with-chambermaid-consensual.html
Dominique Strauss-Kahn: sexual contact with chambermaid 'consensual'
Dominique Strauss-Kahn will admit he had sexual contact with the hotel chambermaid who alleges he attacked her, but insist it was consensual, his lawyers have indicated.
By Jon Swaine, New York 10:51PM BST 17 May 2011
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The International Monetary Fund chief allegedly locked the maid in his suite at Manhattan's Sofitel on Saturday and forced her to give him oral sex. He was denied $1m bail and is being held at Rikers Island jail.
However in a hint at what may become his main line of defence, his attorney, Benjamin Brafman, said at New York criminal court: "The evidence, we believe, will not be consistent with a forcible encounter".
It came as prosecutors, who claim a medical examination of the maid "corroborates her accounts", were alleged to have discovered blood in the hotel room.
The maid's attorney, Jeff Shapiro, strongly denied suggestions that the pair may have had consensual sex.
“There is no way in which there is any aspect of this event which could be construed consensual in any manner,” said Mr Shapiro. “This is nothing other than a physical, sexual assault by this man on this young woman."
Mr Shapiro also moved to quash suggestions that the maid may have been involved in a conspiracy.
"This is a woman with no agenda," he said, adding that she had not even known who Mr Strauss-Kahn was.
Meanwhile the brother of the woman, a 32-year-old from Guinea with a 15-year-old daughter, said she had phoned him and said "somebody did something really bad to me" after the alleged incident.
Reports from France that Mr Strauss-Kahn, 62, would claim to have been having lunch with his 26-year-old daughter, Camille, at the time of the attack, have not been backed up by his lawyers' statements.
Mr Brafman, who successfully defended Michael Jackson against allegations of child abuse in 2004, said only that Mr Strauss-Kahn's lunch date was "the reason he was rushing" to leave the Sofitel.
The timeline of Saturday afternoon that was originally given by the New York police has also abruptly been changed, with potentially important implications for Mr Strauss-Kahn's trial.
While the maid was said to have arrived to clean room 2805-06 at 1.30pm, the criminal complaint against Mr Strauss-Kahn says the alleged attack actually took place at 12pm.
Mr Strauss-Kahn is then said to have left the room at 12.28pm and exited the hotel at about 12.45pm, before meeting someone – reportedly his daughter, a Columbia University graduate student – for lunch.
He then took a car to JFK airport, and called the Sofitel to say he had left a mobile phone behind. Police first said this showed he "left in a hurry", but it is now unclear if in fact he had left a phone.
But by then, police officers were at the hotel, responding to a 911 call.
They coached hotel staff to tell Mr Strauss-Kahn they did have the phone.
"Where are you? We'll get it to you," one reportedly asked.
He replied he was arriving at JFK for a flight – a move Mr Brafman said would be "inconsistent with logic" if his client had indeed attacked the maid and was attempting to flee, as prosecutors claim.
The comment triggered an alert to the Port Authority police, whose detectives boarded the Air France flight 23, an Airbus 380, and removed Mr Strauss-Kahn from the First Class cabin at 4.38pm.
Mr Brafman and William Taylor, Mr Strauss-Kahn's other lawyer, declined to confirm yesterday whether the IMF managing director was admitting to having had sex with the maid.
Their client has been forced by investigators to pose for naked pictures, in case he has telltale injuries, and undergo a DNA test. Before being taken to Rikers Island, he was given a cavity search.
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