Image source, AFP. The couple, both 63, had been married for 21 years. Published 23 May Published 21 May Published 12 June We are sitting in the plush environs of a Paris hotel, surrounded by flock wallpaper and velvet-upholstered sofas. Sinclair, 66, tanned and blow-dried and sporting a patterned silk blouse and patent beige four-inch heels, is talking in a calm, low voice about this tumultuous period of her life.
And although we have been talking for the best part of an hour about her new book — a memoir of her art-dealer grandfather Paul Rosenberg — she must have suspected this question was hovering in the background, waiting to pounce.
I would be fixing something at the window and they would be out there. They were quite harsh and rude. When I went out they followed me and I felt it was like an aggression. Her parents took her back to France as a toddler. Until the events of three years ago, she remembered New York with great affection. The charges against Strauss-Kahn were finally dismissed in August after prosecutors lost faith in the credibility of his accuser. It was a nasty fracas nonetheless — and, back in France, a steady stream of rumour started to emerge that this was not the first time Strauss-Kahn had been seriously indiscreet.
Sinclair divorced him in June amid suspicions that Strauss-Kahn had been involved in a prostitution ring. For months, Sinclair was the unfortunate casualty of the whole affair: caught up in relentless media attention and a confrontation of difficult truths about her marriage to a man who, despite it all, she had loved for more than 20 years. How, I ask her, did she get through it? It was really painful.
But although she is trying to move on, events have a habit of reminding her. I want to have a limit on my private life and fortunately my private life is private once again. In , Strauss-Kahn found himself at the heart of another sex scandal after he was accused of procuring prostitutes for a prostitution ring in northern France. It emerged that the financial experts loved to attend sex parties with women and alcohol, organised by the Press Relations Officer for the Cartlon hotel in Lille, France.
He was tried in France for allegedly procuring women for the orgies and was later acquitted. But this was the final straw for Sinclair.
The Sofitel was one thing in its excess. The whole world was spying on us. It was crazy,' she said. Sinclair added that in her husband was not excited about potentially being elected president. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. Argos AO. Privacy Policy Feedback. Share this article Share.
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Comments 44 Share what you think. View all. Bing Site Web Enter search term: Search. Christa B. Her stepdaughter Camille rang in the middle of the night to say that Strauss-Kahn, known by his initials DSK, had been arrested on suspicion of having sexually assaulted a chambermaid at the Sofitel in Manhattan. Sinclair remained silent for 10 years after the scandal.
This week, she appeared on the covers of Elle and Paris-Match magazines, and gave numerous radio and television interviews. When the scandal broke in May , DSK was about to announce his candidacy for the presidential election. As Sinclair prepared to travel to New York to support her errant husband, her hands shook so hard that she could not button her own clothing.
It is hard to believe this is not a movie, that my husband of 20 years is accused of the heinous crime of rape. I can only stand by him. My heart is in shreds and my head is in a vice.
As a journalist herself, Sinclair understands the explosive social dimension of the scandal, which appeared on the front pages of , newspapers throughout the world. In retrospect, Sinclair says she cannot believe her own blindness. If I had suspicions, he calmed them, or made me feel ridiculous and embarrassed.
When he switched his phone off suddenly, or changed the page on his computer, or came home late from a meeting, he always had a good reason.
Never again, he promised. I am naive. I believed him. Or I wanted to believe him. Brigitte Bardot and Catherine Deneuve were her predecessors. Sinclair was an art heiress and famous journalist when Strauss-Kahn was still a little-known economics professor.
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