Report DSK to pay maid $6m to settle sex case

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.

France’s Le Monde newspaper reports the former frontrunner for the French presidency has told friends that he has agreed to pay hotel maid Nafissatou Diallo that amount in order to end an 18-month legal saga.

The Le Monde article followed a report in the New York Times that 63-year-old Strauss-Kahn and Diallo had “quietly reached an agreement to settle”.