Ex-IMF boss, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, ‘unaware of prostitutes’

Disgraced former International Monetary Fund boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn has told a French court he was unaware that women who took part in orgies at luxury hotels in Paris and Washington DC were prostitutes.

Ex-IMF boss, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, ‘unaware of prostitutes’

“I am horrified at the practice of using prostitutes,” he told the court in the northern French city of Lille, denying he knew the women his friends brought to the soirees in Paris, Brussels, and Washington were paid to be there.

The 65-year-old and his 13 co-defendants are on trial accused of aggravated pimping in connection with a sex ring centred on the Hotel Carlton in the Lille.

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