'What a nice a**!'

That's what former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn told a stewardess moments before police hauled him off his flight

That's what former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn told a stewardess moments before police hauled him off his flight

Disgraced former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn attempted to lure two attractive hotel employees to his $3,000-a-night (Rs 1.35 lakh) hotel suite and later put the moves on an Air France flight attendant following his alleged sexual assault on a maid, it has been learned. "What a nice a''", he barked to the attendant, using the lewd French expression "Quel beau cul!" as she prepared the business-class cabin for takeoff last Saturday.


Suite talker: Dominique Strauss-Kahnu00a0has been charged with sexually
assaulting a chambermaid at the Sofitel hotel in New York


Where he also allegedly propositioned two more members of staff.
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His catcall came just moments before Port Authority detectives hauled him off the plane, the French magazine Le Point reported. The final act of lust capped a whirlwind weekend of attempted womanising for the former front-runner of the 2012 French presidential election. The Frenchman first tried his seduction skills on a VIP receptionist who escorted him to his suite at the Sofitel hotel on Friday evening, officials sources said.

When he got to his room, the 62-year-old asked the attractive worker to join him for a glass of champagne after her shiftu00a0-- an invite she described as "inappropriate," and which she rejected on the spot, the sources said. Strauss-Kahn tried his game the following day on the desk receptionist who had first checked him in, described by a source as an "attractive woman who caught his eye."

He asked her to join him in his suite, where he had a complimentary bottle of Dom Perignon champagne. The woman said that, at first, he was "borderline flirting" and she declined the sordid invite, according to the sources. The revelations emerged after investigators interviewed every Sofitel employee and pored over more than 48 hours of video footage, including recordings of Strauss-Kahn bolting the hotel Saturday afternoon without checking out.

Prosecutors say that after emerging from the suite's bathroom naked, he threw himself upon the unsuspecting 32-year-old maid, who had entered his room to clean. Strauss-Kahn allegedly chased her down the hallway and into his bedroom, grabbed her breasts, attempted to pull down her pantyhose, and forced her to perform fellatio before she tore free from his grasp and ran to tell her colleagues, who called the cops.

Police investigating the alleged rape attempt had already told employees to ask him where he was, and tell him they would deliver the cellphone. Strauss-Kahn was indicted on seven counts, including attempted rape, criminal sexual assault and unlawful imprisonment.

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Anne Sinclair has been standing by this man since 1991 when the two were married. In a statement she issued, she said she did not "believe for a single second the accusations of sexual assault by my husband."

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