Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn said in a rare magazine interview that he is tired of being hunted by the media and begged to be left alone as he tries to move on from a sex scandal that wrecked his career.

The wife of former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has acknowledged in a newspaper interview that the two have separated, and says she’s been doing “very well” on her own.

FRENCH President Nicolas Sarkozy’s party has rejected as “grotesque” suggestions that Dominique Strauss-Kahn was the victim of a plot to ruin his presidential ambitions.

FORMER IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who was tipped to become France’s next president before his US arrest on sex assault charges, later dropped, is suing several newspapers and an adviser of President Nicolas Sarkozy over reports about him, his lawyers said.

DOMINIQUE STRAUSS-KAHN, his presidential hopes shattered by a sex assault scandal that rocked his homeland, returned to France to a frosty public reception and unease among his political allies.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn has returned home to a mixed welcome in France – for the first time since attempted rape accusations by a New York hotel maid unleashed an international scandal that dashed his chances of the French presidency.

A judge dismissed the sexual assault case against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn today but put the order on hold for the accuser and her lawyer to ask that a special prosecutor should be appointed.

FOR all that Bill Clinton might be defined by his marital transgressions, on the political stage he is far from alone: from earliest times, the dark arts have abounded with philanderers.

ANOTHER woman has come forward to claim she had a secret nine-month affair with Dominique Strauss-Kahn that eventually drove her to attempt suicide.

FRENCH investigators have questioned one of Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s daughters, one of his ex-wives and may question a Socialist presidential hopeful about claims the former International Monetary Fund chief tried to rape a writer.

Smiling faintly as he walked out of court, former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was released from house arrest after prosecutors acknowledged serious questions about the credibility of the hotel maid who accused him of sexual assault.

FORMER IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was released from house arrest yesterday after prosecutors said the hotel maid who accused him of attempted rape lied to a grand jury and made other false statements.

FORMER IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn entered a plea of not guilty yesterday to charges he sexually assaulted a New York hotel maid in a case that cost him his job and a chance at the French presidency.

The former International Monetary Fund head charged with trying to rape a hotel maid formally said he was innocent of the charges today in his first court appearance in the case in two weeks.

Former International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn moved from a temporary space in a high-rise to a plush, four-bedroom brick townhouse in New York today, where he will remain under house arrest as he awaits trial for attempted rape.

New tests have found that the DNA of former International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn matches material found on the shirt of a hotel maid who says he tried to rape her.

The New York apartment building where former IMF leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn is under house arrest on sexual assault charges has become a new tourist hot spot.

A JUDGE agreed yesterday to free former International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn from a New York City jail on the condition he post $1 million (almost €700,00) in bail and remain under house arrest, under the watch of armed guards, at a private apartment in Manhattan.

The head of the International Monetary Fund was today waiting to be brought before a US court accused of sexually assaulting a hotel maid.

The New York court appearance for the International Money Fund chief accused of sexually assaulting a hotel maid has been delayed, his lawyer said today.

IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn was the front runner in the latest opinion polls to win next year’s presidential election in France and replace Nicolas Sarkozy.

IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been charged with attempting to rape a New York hotel maid, in a scandal that upends his plans to run for president of France and throws leadership of the global lender into turmoil at the height of the European debt crisis.