Strauss-Kahn’s wife has thrown him out at last – and not before time
He’s depressed because of his “lack of career options” and “everybody shuns him”.
What in heaven’s name did he expect?
When I read a big feature article in The Sunday Times magazine, about his really twisted behaviour (to say nothing of the equally swinish men who cooperated with him, in some cases literally pinning the women down while he had his way with them in full view of everyone else), I almost felt physically ill.
I began to wonder whether his wife was some kind of pervert as well, to be sticking by him like that.
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(Reuters) – Disgraced former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn and his wife have separated, as his legal battles run on over a New York sex assault case and his alleged involvement with a prostitution ring, weekly magazine Closer reported on Thursday.
Anne Sinclair, a wealthy heiress who recently relaunched her media career as a news editor at the Huffington Post’s French edition, threw Strauss-Kahn out of their home in central Paris a month ago and the two are living separately, the magazine said.
The magazine did not cite any sources for the story that appeared in its online edition.
A source close to Strauss-Kahn confirmed the report of the separation, saying it had happened approximately a month ago and that Strauss-Kahn was living at a separate residence in Paris.
The pair have been married for 20 years and Sinclair, a popular TV journalist for years who fell for the former finance minister after interviewing him, stuck close by him when he was accused in May 2011 of trying to rape a New York hotel maid.
The scandal forced Strauss-Kahn to quit his International Monetary Fund post and destroyed his hopes of running for French president in the April-May 2012 election for the Socialist Party, which instead won power under Francois Hollande.
Closer’s report that the couple are now leading separate lives comes after weeks of media speculation that the relationship was under pressure, in part as Strauss-Kahn grew depressed at his lack of career options.
“He’s in a bad way. It’s very sad,” a person who knows Strauss-Kahn and recently saw him socially told Reuters this month.
“He’s mostly just at home on his own while Anne is out and about with her new job. He’s shunned by everybody.”
Strauss-Kahn is the target of a civil case by the hotel maid who says he assaulted her in his suite at the New York Sofitel. He also is being formally investigated in France over alleged links to a prostitution ring in the northern city of Lille.
(Reporting By Catherine Bremer, additional reporting by Joseph Ax in Washington; Editing by Michael Roddy)
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She’s thrown him out now he doesn’t have any career options.
He’s behaved dreadfully all along – only, in the meantime, he was head of the IMF and a potential president of France, and so worth hanging onto.
Perhaps there’s a place for him in Joseph’s skip.
You’re right. His personal life is private and it wouldn’t make any difference at all to his work, would it? And please, that’s according to Labour, of course.
If there’s a place for Cyrus why not Strauss-Kahn? PL is a liberal (on sex) movement after all.
So she threw him out.
It’s always the same story, the first to abandon a ship are the rats.
While the going was good and he was considered an important man, they all stuck to him, even though they knew of his weakness. Now when he needs their support they throw him out.
Maybe, I don’t know, this is the reason why women always manage to survive.
I always wondered why Hilary Clinton stood by Bill Clinton throughout and after the Lewinsky affair.
She’s a successful politician herself, certainly an independent woman.
My hunch is women put up with far too much from their men, are more forgiving and tolerant than men.
What I don’t get is why they do it, though I suspect a lot of women just can’t bear the thought of being without a man.
Why else would so many attractive women settle for unattractive men?
Women are fed fairly tales of Prince Charming from early childhood and nobody seems interested in teaching them the skills required to live life solo.
We are all fed the myth that any relationship even a dysfunctional one will do.
In reality as long as a woman makes a good living, a relationship should be the cherry on the cake that complements her achievements, not the be all and end all.
Recently Cherie Blair slagged off the women who aspire to a Wag’s lifestyle. I suspect a lot of women still view motherhood as a ticket out of working life because with their poor skills they can’t hack it.
Unfortunately self-esteem is not taught in schools and the older generations of women who were financially dependent on their husbands did not set a good example.
I would ban fairy tales and teach girls to be self-sufficient, so that should they ever get into a relationship it would be for the right reasons and not out of co-dependency.
So what will Carmen do when Id-Dublett loses his MP position?
Ghandu zmien daqs harruba. Iz-zmien biex jirtira f’villa fil-kampanja wasal gmielu. Izda le, ghax ghad irid jilhaq.
Sewwa jghidu, l-insikurezza tohloq ghatx li ma taqtghu b’xejn.