Former IMF leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn and a New York City hotel maid have signed a settlement of her sexual assault lawsuit, a judge said yesterday.

Former International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn and a New York City hotel maid have signed a settlement of her sexual assault lawsuit, a judge says.

A court date has been set to discuss a New York City hotel maid's sexual assault action against former International Monetary Fund chief and potential French presidential candidate Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the disgraced former IMF chief, has agreed to pay $6m (€4.6m) to settle a lawsuit brought by a Manhattan maid who accused him of sexual assault.

Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn and a hotel maid who accused him of trying to rape her have reached an agreement to settle her lawsuit.

A French prosecutor has opened a preliminary investigation into allegations of rape in a Washington hotel by former IMF chief and one-time presidential hopeful Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

Disgraced former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s legal woes deepened as French prosecutors opened a preliminary probe into accusations he took part in a gang rape in the US.

Former world finance boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn has made a $1m (€777,000) counter-claim against the New York hotel maid who accused him of sexual assault, saying she seriously damaged his reputation with what he calls a bogus allegation.

A judge may decide today whether former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn will face a civil case accusing him of sexually assaulting a hotel maid.

French police detained former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn for questioning over allegations he took part in orgies in Paris and Washington paid for by a pair of businessmen.

The prosecutor who charged Dominique Strauss-Kahn with sexually assaulting a hotel maid said he dropped the case because he ultimately was not sure what transpired between the two.

FACED with a barrage of criticism when it chose a panda as one of it’s 12 female “faces of the year 2011”, a haughty BBC spokesperson wondered what all the fuss was about.

Surveillance videos aired publicly for the first time show former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn leisurely checking out of a New York hotel where he was accused of sexually assaulting a chambermaid, and his accuser appearing to act out the alleged attack.

SHAMED former IMF boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn has blamed his sex scandal downfall on the fact “the flesh is weak”.

Shamed former IMF boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn has blamed his sex scandal downfall on the fact “the flesh is weak”.

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 International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn does not have diplomatic immunity from a lawsuit by a hotel maid who claims he sexually assaulted her in his room, according to court papers.

THE Paris prosecutor’s office yesterday dropped its investigation into a writer’s claim that Dominique Strauss-Kahn tried to rape her, though it said the former IMF chief admitted to behaviour that could qualify as sexual assault.

FORMER IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn met in a face-to-face confrontation with a Frenchwoman who says he tried to rape her, as the two were questioned by investigators deciding whether to pursue the case.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, claiming he has diplomatic immunity, has asked a New York court to dismiss a lawsuit by the hotel maid who says he sexually assaulted her.

FRENCH prosecutors will set up a face-to-face meeting between former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn and the young French writer who has accused him of attempted rape, they said yesterday.

THE former head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn has maintained that his sexual encounter with a New York hotel maid did not involve violence, constraint or aggression, but still constituted a moral failing on his part.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the International Monetary Fund, says his sexual encounter with a New York hotel maid “did not involve violence, constraint or aggression” but still was a “moral failing” on his part.

French police have questioned former IMF boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn for three hours over claims he tried to rape a writer during a 2003 interview.

French police have questioned former IMF boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn for three hours over claims he tried to rape a writer during a 2003 interview.

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.

Former International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn arrived in his native France today, for the first time since the collapse of a sensational sexual assault case that cost him his job and possibly his presidential ambitions.

Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn returned to the IMF's headquarters to say goodbye to staff and meet his successor, five days after New York prosecutors dismissed sex attack charges against him.

ID Dominique Strauss-Khan get justice? Was he the victim of a system that convicts before charges can even be answered? Or is he a lucky boy, who can thank his powerful position for beating a rap that he deserved?

CLEARED of sex assault charges, Dominique Strauss- Kahn could be back in France within days but may not get a hero’s welcome, if sober newspaper editorials and cautious statements by his Socialist allies are anything to go by.

Former International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn might take legal action in civil court against the hotel maid who accused him of sexually assaulting her in a now-dismissed criminal case and in her ongoing civil suit, one of his lawyers said.

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.

Prosecutors sought to dismiss the criminal charges in a sexual-assault case against former International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn, saying persistent lying by the hotel maid who accused him of trying to rape her in his suite made it impossible for them to determine what really happened.

NEW York prosecutors asked a judge to dismiss sexual assault charges against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn yesterday, a stunning reversal that could revive the political future of a man many had seen as the next president of France.

THE lawyer for Nafissatou Diallo, the woman who accused former International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault, has said he believes prosecutors plan to dismiss some or all of the charges.

The lawyer for the woman who accused former International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault has said he believes prosecutors plan to dismiss some or all of the charges.

A NEW round of reports on the Dominique Strauss- Kahn case suggests an attempt at collusion between the attorneys defending the former International Monetary Fund director and those representing his accuser, Sofitel hotel maid Nafissatou Diallo.

THE maid hovered in the suite’s large living room, just inside the entrance. The 32-year-old Guinean had been told by a waiter that room 2806 was now free for cleaning.

THE maid accusing French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn of attempted rape has filed a civil suit in New York alleging a “sadistic attack” and seeking unspecified compensation.

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.

The New York City hotel maid who accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault has appeared in public to thank her supporters.

The hotel maid accusing Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sex assault has been wrongfully portrayed as a money grabbing opportunist in newspaper accounts of her recorded remarks to an incarcerated friend, her lawyer said after they reviewed the tapes during a nearly eight-hour meeting with prosecutors.

THE hotel maid who says former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn sexually assaulted her in a Manhattan hotel room has broken her silence over the alleged attack.

The hotel maid who says former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn sexually assaulted her in a Manhattan hotel room has broken her silence over the alleged attack.