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Strauss-Kahn to sue pimp over 'DSK' brothel

Disgraced IMF chief does not see the funny side to his name on a Belgian brothel whose owner claims the initials mean 'Dodo Sex Klub'.

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Disgraced Inetrnational Monetary Fund boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn is embroiled in a new sex-related legal case, only this time he is suing a pimp for openeing a brothel using his intiials, DSK, claiming that it is a slur on his reputation, reports RFI.

French pimp Dominique Alderweireld – nicknamed Dodo la Saumure for complicated reasons relating to French slang, the sex trade and fish-pickling – is awaiting trial for allegedly providing prostitutes for Strauss-Kahn and other notables in the “Carlton Affair”, a scandal that hit the former politician and economist after the New York sex assault accusations that cost him his IMF job.

He denies the charges.

On Wednesday he was due to open a new establishment, called Dodo Sex Klub or DSK, the initials by which French people frequently refer to Strauss-Kahn.

It is in Blaton, near the French border, and will employ “six girls, including a transsexual”, and be equipped with a “dance table and bedrooms”, according to Alderweireld.

The name is not to Strauss-Kahn’s liking and he has put a team of five lawyers – three in France and two in Belgium – onto the case.

Read more of this report from RFI.

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French magistrates send Strauss-Kahn for trial for pimping in sex-ring 'Carlton affair'

Orgies, luxury hotels and prostitutes: the case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn in 'the Carlton affair'