Interview dominique strauss kahn claire chazal biography

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Sex and power is a familiar combination for the French. When at the funeral for President Mitterand his wife and mistress took almost equal places of honour amongst the mourners, it was deemed the height of bad taste to comment.

Scarcely a word was said in print about the private life of former IMF director Dominique Strauss-Kahn until the notorious nine minutes in the Sofitel in New York which saw the standard-bearer for the French left accused of rape, although his libertine lifestyle had been discussed in Paris for years before the charges were explosively announced.

It is hard to overstate just how extraordinary an event Strauss-Kahn’s first interview since the scandal truly is in France.

The sight of a man who once had a just claim to be considered the front-runner for next