20 May,2011 07:04 AM IST | | Agencies
Claims actress against former IMF chief as new affair is revealed with Italian widow
A French blog has revealed an account of an actress who called Dominique Strauss-Kahn a 'gorilla' in 2008.
Referring to the IMF chief's aggressiveness with girls, the actress claimed he behaved 'like a gorilla' or according to another translation, like a 'randy monkey' after inviting her back to a Paris flat.
Feminists protest in front of the IMF Headquarters demanding that Dominique Strauss-Kahn be removed from his post yesterday.u00a0Tristane Banon has accused Strauss-Kahn of attempted rape
Kahn is facing charges of an attempted rape of a maid in Sofitel Hotel in New York. French writer, Tristane Banon has accused Strauss-Kahn of an attempted rape and says he was 'like a rutting chimpanzee'.
The mother of the victim, who claims to have been subjected to a frenzied sex attack by Strauss-Kahn nine years ago, used Facebook to attack him. Strauss-Kahn is also accused of having flings with the widow of an Italian academic.
Hooker habit
Meanwhile, a former madam claims that embattled former IMF boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn was once a client with an appetite for high-price hookers.
The allegations over the financier's past sexual conduct have emerged with The Times of London reporting claims that Strauss-Kahn was a client of one of New York's most infamous former madams.
Kristin Davis (35), was jailed for promoting prostitution in 2008 after it emerged that the former governor of New York, Eliot Spitzer, used call girls a revelation that led to his resignation.
Davis alleged that Kahn used her Wicked Models service on two occasions in 2006, while campaigning for the leadership of the French Socialist Party.
She said Strauss-Kahn called her in January that year to request an "all-American" girl, and paid $1,200
(Rs 54,00) an hour for a two-hour booking.
"He paid in cash," she said. "The first girl I sent to him said he was aggressive and didn't want to be back with him again," she added.
His lawyers have declined to comment on the allegations.
'I quit'
This comes as Strauss-Kahn resigned on Wednesday night as head of the IMF, saying he needed "all my strength, all my time, and all my energy to proving my innocence."
"I think at this time first of my wife whom I love more than anything of my children, of my family, of my friends," he wrote to the IMF board.
"I think also of my colleagues; together we have accomplished such great things over the last three years and more.
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To all, I want to say that I deny with the greatest possible firmness all of the allegations that have been made against me."
His legal team filed a bail application yesterday, saying he would agree to "be confined to home detention 24 hours per day with electronic monitoring."
Sarkozy's Warnings
Nicolas Sarkozy warned Strauss-Kahn of his behaviour with women when he was sent to the US as head of the IMF, it has emerged. When Sarkozy heard Strauss-Kahn was arrested last weekend he rolled his eyes and said: 'We did warn him'.
