DSK: I only had four orgies a year

12 February 2015 - 02:35 By AFP, © The Daily Telegraph
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DATE WITH THE DOCK: Belgian Dominique Alderweireld, foreground, is one of the 14 defendants in the so-called 'Carlton Case' trial in Lille, France. One of his co-defendants is former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who is accused of being part of a prostitution ring four years after a sex scandal cost him his career
DATE WITH THE DOCK: Belgian Dominique Alderweireld, foreground, is one of the 14 defendants in the so-called 'Carlton Case' trial in Lille, France. One of his co-defendants is former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who is accused of being part of a prostitution ring four years after a sex scandal cost him his career
Image: FRANCOIS LO PRESTI/AFP

Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn yesterday lashed out at the focus on his sexual behaviour in a French court where he is charged with pimping, saying he was not on trial for "deviant" acts.

For a second day, the court in Lille picked apart sex parties attended by the 65-year-old Strauss-Kahn in Paris, Brussels and Washington in a bid to uncover whether he arranged for prostitutes to attend.

While prostitution in itself is legal, encouraging and organising its practice is considered to be procuring and is punishable by up to 10 years in prison.

Strauss-Kahn denies knowing that the women at the sex parties were prostitutes, saying paying for sex would be too great a risk for a man at the head of the IMF, which was busy "saving the world from an unprecedented" financial crisis.

Yesterday's proceedings began with an emotional account from Jade, an ex-prostitute, about a night in a Brussels hotel where she said Strauss-Kahn sodomised her without permission.

Strauss-Kahn testified on Tuesday that women had a habit of "offering themselves" to him and that he took part in "only" four orgies a year.

"I don't see myself as organising these soirées in any way. I didn't have time. I had other things to do. I had political ambitions. And [was part of] a complicated couple," he said, referring to his ex-wife Anne Sinclair.

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