Strauss-Kahn’s ex-wife ‘unaware of sex parties’

The ex-wife of former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn says she knew nothing about his penchant for sex parties which has left him facing a possible 10-year prison sentence for pimping.

Anne Sinclair, a wealthy heiress who was until recently one of France’s best-known television news anchors, left Strauss-Kahn after he was forced to resign as head of the International Monetary Fund following his 2011 arrest for an alleged sexual assault on a New York hotel maid.

Criminal charges in the case were dropped and at the end of 2012, Strauss-Kahn settled a civil suit brought by the maid by paying her undisclosed damages, which reportedly exceeded $1.5 million (€1.1m). His former wife is thought to have helped him raise the funds for the damages payment and his legal bills.