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TWO years have passed since a sex scandal toppled the former head of the IMF and one-time French presidential hopeful, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, or “DSK” as he likes to be known. On May 14th, in the same week as a trailer was releasedShow More Summary

Here's French Actor Gerard Depardieu As Dominique Strauss-Kahn

French actor Gerard Depardieu is playing the role of Dominique Strauss-Kahn in a upcoming movie about the sex scandal that caused DSK to resign as head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Here's a photo from the filming [via World Crunch]. Just walked by a film being shot starring Gerard Depardieu as DSK. Show More Summary

The IMF’s Christine Lagarde: Can She Fix Europe?

There was a time not that long ago when the International Monetary Fund was an obscure body whose financial work was a mystery to most regular people. Then its Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn put the organization on the mapShow More Summary

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Their targets have included Silvio Berlusconi, Vladimir Putin, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, IKEA, the G-8, and the pope. The predominantly blond-haired, bare-breasted young women have struck in 17 countries across the world and are reported to have 150,000 supporters worldwide. They call themselves the new Amazons, boldly evoking the mythical nation of all-female warriors.

Jesse Kornbluth: Did Lee Harvey Oswald Act Alone? Was Dominique Strauss-Kahn Set Up? Edward Jay Epstein Investigates

I met Edward Jay Epstein in 1965, a lifetime ago. He was researching a book about the Kennedy assassination. I wondered why. Wasn't JFK killed...

DSK unable to ban former lover's book

Former IMF head and orgy-lover Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s attempts to stop the publication of former lover Marcela lacub's fictionalized account of their affair have been thwarted.   The book, titled “Belle et Bête”—which can be translated as “Beauty and Beast”—does not name Strauss-Kahn, who...

Dominique Strauss-Kahn fails to block mistress' veiled memoir

No stranger to scandal, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former International Monetary Fund head, has failed in his attempt to get a court in Paris to ban an upcoming veiled memoir by a former mistress, the Guardian reports. Strauss-Kahn,...Show More Summary

Book News: D.S.K.’s Bookmark Bonus, Literature on Vinyl

Dominique Strauss-Kahn has lost his fight to have banned a tell-all book by a former mistress who described him as “half man, half pig,” but won a court order ruling that each copy must contain a card listing his objections. Ahead of...Show More Summary

Stop the Presses: (Another) Strauss-Kahn Sex Book Challenged in Court

People wishing the world would turn the page on the seemingly endless Dominique Strauss-Kahn sex saga have  again seen their hopes dashed. On Feb. 26 a Paris court ordered author Marcela Iacub and her publisher Stock to pay Strauss-Kahn...Show More Summary

Court Orders Publisher to Add Strauss-Kahn Insert

(PARIS) — A lawyer for Dominique Strauss-Kahn is claiming victory after a judge ruled that a publisher must add an insert to a book about the former International Monetary Fund chief’s sexual relationship with the author. Jean Veil said...Show More Summary

Strauss-Kahn fails to ban revealing book

Dominique Strauss-Kahn is unable to stop the publication of a tell-all book on his affair, but is able to win damages.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn sues over book documenting his affair

DSK Is Trying To Seize Every Copy Of His Ex-Lover's Salacious Book

Disgraced IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is taking legal steps to stop a controversial new book by Argentinian-born Marcela Iacub detailing their liaison, his lawyers said on Monday. In "Beauty and the Beast," due to be released on...Show More Summary

One Of DSK's Former Lovers Calls Him 'Half Man, Half Pig' In Her New Book

Worldcrunch is a new global news service that for the first time delivers the best foreign-language journalism in English. Disgraced former IMF boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn is back in the spotlight in France. A former lover has just published...Show More Summary

French author writes about Dominique Strauss-Kahn in graphic detail

Depardieu skips French court to prep for Strauss-Kahn role

PARIS (Reuters) - French film star Gerard Depardieu failed to show up in court to face drink driving charges on Tuesday because he was preparing to play disgraced former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn in a film, his lawyer said.

The Best Legal Quote Of The Year Comes From Dominique Strauss-Kahn's Never-Ending Courtroom Saga

Vivia Chen over at The Careerist has rounded up some of the best quotes uttered by lawyers this year. And while all were pretty funny, one stood out above the rest as the most entertaining. “I dare you to distinguish between a prostitute...Show More Summary

Dominique Strauss-Kahn To Be Tried For Alleged Side Gig As Pimp

Dominique Strauss-Kahn failed to persuade French judges to dismiss pimping charges against him Wednesday, meaning the embarrassing case involving orgies among the country’s elite will continue. The disgraced former chief of the International Monetary Fund is accused of participating in a hotel prostitution ring in the northern French city of Lille. Show More Summary

France Won't Drop Pimping Charges Vs. DSK

Dominique Strauss-Kahn may have settled his civil suit with a New York hotel maid and seen the gang rape charges against him dropped, but his troubles are not yet over: He still faces aggravated pimping charges in his native France. Judges today declined to drop the charges against the former...

Court rejects Strauss-Kahn's call to drop sex inquiry

DOUAI, France (Reuters) - A French court on Wednesday rejected a request by former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn to drop a sex offence inquiry in which he risks standing trial on pimping charges, his lawyers said. The verdict came...Show More Summary