DSK fights back: Dominique Strauss-Kahn said this week he would sue a key aide to French President Nicolas Sarkozy and five media outlets for linking him to a high-end prostitution ring in the city of Lille. Though Strauss-Kahn has not been charged in the prostitution prosecution, Sarkozy adviser Henri Guaino said in a television interview that Strauss-Kahn’s sexual excesses had entered “a zone where private life meets criminality.” Various press outlets reported that Strauss-Kahn was a regular client of the ring, and that his activities may have been financed by a French construction company, Eiffage. One prostitute, quoted at length by Le Parisien, said she told police of having sex with Strauss-Kahn at 11 orgies over six years, and that he had “exceptional vigor.” French media this week reported that Strauss-Kahn’s wife, Anne Sinclair, told friends she had “had enough” and was about to leave him.
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