PRESUMABLY THEY'LL ARGUE THAT SHE'S A MONEY-GRUBBING SLUT TOO?:

Dominique Strauss-Kahn: profile of 'attempted rape victim' Tristane Banon (Henry Samuel, 04 Jul 2011, The Telegraph)

Tristane Banon is a French journalist and writer, born in 1979 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France’s wealthiest suburb where Nicolas Sarkozy was mayor for 18 years.

She is the daughter of Anne Mansouret, a regional councillor in Upper Normandy, and god-daughter of Dominique Strauss-Kahn's second wife Brigitte Guillemette. She was also a close friend of one of Mr Strauss-Kahn’s daughters, Camille. [...]

The allegations were first mentioned in the bestselling 2006 book Sexus Politicus by Christophe Dubois and Christophe Deloire, about the private lives and sexual mores of leading French political figures.

Miss Banon’s lawyer said the charges laid against Mr Strauss-Kahn in New York had brought the 2002 incident back to his client.

He said she was ready to go to court now because "she knows she'll be taken seriously."

As DSK hit the headlines, the Banon family code of silence was broken, and her mother, Anne Mansouret, admitted that she had advised her daughter not to file for charges at the time – advice she said she now regretted.

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