Dominique Kahn-Strauss and wife Anne SinclairRedTracker| ‘Manhattan Madam’ Kristin Davis, best known for her client relationship with former New York governor Eliot Spitzer, says that Dominique Strauss-Kahn was one of her clients and paid thousands of dollars for her escort girls in 2006.

CBS reports that one of them complained Strauss-Kahn was too aggressive. Davis says that DSK contacted her in January 2006, requesting an ‘all American girl’. Davis said he paid about $2,400 for two hours with her.

While there is no certain linkage between liking rough sex and the events of last weekend’s alleged sexual assault in a Manhattan hotel, Davis said she decided to speak openly because she feels to need to protect clients reported to be abusive.

“The girl said he was pushy, overly grabby and forceful. He did not rape anyone. However, at $1,000 or more an hour, we expected the clients to behave like gentlemen, not animals,” said Davis to The Daily Mail.

The second girl was sent to DSK in September 2006 and had no complaint about his behavior.

Davis herself spent five months at Riker’s Island resulting from the Eliot Spitzer scandal. Strauss-Kahn spent part of the week at Rikers before being granted bail today.

Details of New York Housekeeper

Reports are (and they are only published reports in trusted news sources) that the information from the suite door’s electronic card reader indicates that the maid left the door open when she entered, as is hotel policy. Investigators say that the maid was there to clean the room and execute her job duties.

The housekeeper has shown investigators where she spat on the rug after giving DSK oral sex as he allegedly demanded. Forensic testing is in process.

Bail Granted Today

Mr. Strauss-Kahn’s lawyers filed a new application for his release in State Supreme Court on Wednesday night, reiterating their client’s earlier offer to put up $1 million cash bail and wear an ankle monitor. The new application also said that Mr. Strauss-Kahn would remain under 24-hour home confinement in a Manhattan apartment recently rented by his wife, with an armed guard posted outside — presumably to ensure that he stays inside. He also submitted a waiver of extradition, should the American authorities need to get him back from France. via NYTimes

The judge accepted the arrangement but also required $5 million bond to be posted.

Before bail was granted, prosecutors announced that a grand jury indicted DSK on charges including several first-degree felony counts, including committing a criminal sex act, attempted rape and sexual abuse. The most serious charges carry a 25-year prison term. The indictment carried seven counts in total.

French Press Response

The nation appears to be doing some soul-searching on the code of silence that protected Strauss-Kahn in France. We follow the story from The National in UAE (as part of our always global touch bases around the world on big stories).

Within hours of news of DSK’s arrest last weekend, the far-right Front National leader, Marine Le Pen, was claiming that rumours about his “pathological” treatment of women had been buzzing around political and media circles in Paris for months.

She said she had also been on the receiving end of “inappropriate” verbal attention from her socialist rival for the presidency.

Several journalists have said that their hands were tied by France’s strict privacy laws.

One participant in the France 2 programme, Christophe Deloire, said he was amazed that the press failed to follow up disclosures about DSK’s pursuit of women, published in his 2006 book Sexus Politicus.

In an article for the newspaper Le Monde, he wrote: “The scenes recounted were not limited to simple salon seduction. This chapter brought our editor and ourselves under intense pressure given the sensitive nature of the information.”

It was recalled that in 2007, Jean Quatremer, a journalist for Libération, had written, “The only real problem for Strauss-Kahn, is his relation to women. Too forward, he often brushes with harassment. It is a problem known to the media but that nobody talks about (we are in France).”

DSK ‘Secrets of a Presidential Contender’ by Cassandre

It’s said that this book, released in France last year by an anonymous woman claiming to be in DSK’s inner circle of advisors wrote (translated by The Telegraph):

“He is always on the hunt for new women.

“He is a pleasure seeker. Like all great political animals, he has trouble controlling himself.

“His eye for women is sharp as a laser. When he enters a cafe, an office or any public place, the ritual is the same.

“He does a little survey, turning his head almost imperceptibly to the left, then to the right, while carrying on talking. It lasts only a few seconds, just enough time to evaluate his chances.

“After identifying his prey, he bombards them with text messages, usually with the opening salvo ‘I want you’.

“He is direct and makes no concessions.”

Again, nothing in these statements attributes guilt to DSK before his upcoming trial in New York. Anne