Who is the maid attacked by strauss kahn

Download the France 24 app. The content you requested does not exist or is not available anymore. ON TV. On social media. Who are we? Fight the Fake. Daily newsletter Receive essential international news every morning Subscribe. I was crying all day, but I was crying more and so scared after that.

I thought they were going to kill me. According to Diallo if she had made such allegations against a man of Strauss-Kahn's power in Guinea that's what would have happened. In truth, she would be hunted down another way. Diallo recalled, 'My phone started ringing, phone numbers from Europe — I never had people call me from there. I was so scared. I had to call the detectives and they had to come and pick me up. I left that day and I never went back. It is hard to overstate the international frenzy that blew up around the Strauss-Kahn case.

Diallo had to be smuggled out of the back door at the only press conference she gave while a decoy, dressed like her drew the press scrum off her scent at the front. There was no way for Diallo to prepare herself for the scrutiny — or the cruelty — of some of the coverage that followed. The New York Post ran a front-page article branding her a 'hooker,' as Strauss-Kahn's camp did everything in their power to discredit his accuser.

Strauss-Kahn claimed that the encounter was 'consensual. Diallo was cast as a shake-down artist, just waiting for her pay-day. But it didn't stop the rumors from spreading and there was more to come. It emerged that Diallo had lied to authorities and a Grand Jury about her background in Guinea. It was also revealed that she had fiddled her taxes and had a relationship with Amara Tarawally, a convicted drug dealer who used her bank account to deposit large sums of money.

Diallo watched as her credibility was put on trial and found wanting. I was so hurt from people calling me names without knowing me because it's powerful. I was so hurt about everything.

They checked me instead of the guy who did this to me. They treated me as a criminal. They called me a liar. Strauss-Kahn recruited the services of some of the city's biggest lawyers, including Benjamin Brafman, who went onto defend disgraced Hollywood producer, Harvey Weinstein in with notably less success.

Diallo continued, 'This guy had powerful lawyers, but I thought the DA was meant to be powerful too. They were not supposed to be scared of this guy and his lawyers and abandon me. But that, according to Diallo, is what happened. On Monday, August 22, the district attorney's office formally moved to dismiss the case against Strauss-Kahn.

Describing Diallo as someone who was, 'persistently, and at times inexplicably, untruthful in describing matters of both great and small significance,' the prosecutors stated that they could not ask a jury to believe her beyond all reasonable doubt, when they no longer did so themselves. For Diallo it was the most devastating and public blow of all, as she has now reveals for the first time.

I was going to take my life. I was going to record myself and take my life. I was watching TV and crying'. She's seen leaving the DA's office in July The criminal charges brought against Strauss-Kahn were dropped three months after his high-profile arrest.

I was watching TV and crying. And in that moment, witnessing what she saw as their weakness, she found her strength. Diallo said, 'I prayed to God and I said God you just sent me a sign not to kill myself.

You are going to fight for me one day. I said to God you make me come here to America; you changed my life [once] before. You made this guy come here and I don't know why you choose me God, but you're going to use me as a key to stop bad things.

That's why I am strong. I feel like God used me as a key to save other people. Diallo's high-profile case, and the furore that surrounded its dismissal, has been credited by some as the vital precursor to the MeToo movement. Other women came forward to allege similar encounters with Strauss-Kahn and the ground-swell of support for Diallo saw hundreds take to the streets in her name. She also successfully sued the New York Post for their front-page story branding her a 'hooker.

There was, she said, some comfort in both victories, 'That made me feel so much better after the civil case.

The judge made me feel better. It's not about the money it's about making me feel better and [the civil court] didn't abandon me the way the DA did. Diallo does not know if her daughter, now 25, has watched the recent Netflix documentary. She believes she has, but they have not spoken about it. She said, 'She went through a lot like I went through.

We don't want to remember that case. She knows, I tell her everything. But we don't want to remember. By Joseph Ax. NEW YORK Reuters - Dominique Strauss-Kahn and a New York hotel maid who accused the former International Monetary Fund chief of sexually assaulting her agreed on Monday to settle her civil lawsuit against him for an undisclosed sum, ending one chapter of a scandal that cost him his job and derailed his political career in France.

Strauss-Kahn, 63, was not required to appear in New York and remained in Paris. His accuser, Nafissatou Diallo, was present as the judge had ordered, wearing a green blouse with black pants and a gray and white scarf around her head.

Diallo is a strong and courageous woman who never lost faith in our system of justice. Strauss-Kahn, we are pleased to have arrived at a resolution of this matter. We are grateful to Judge McKeon whose patience and forbearance allowed this agreement to be formulated. The U.