Diallo, Diallo!

 

Nafissatou Diallo, the housekeeper who accused Dominic Strauss-Kahn of assault in his hotel suite has won a settlement for the case.

The settlement was announced at a hearing in State Supreme Court in the Bronx, eight long miles from the headline-grabbing case’s genesis: a 28th-floor suite at the Sofitel hotel in Midtown Manhattan.

The deal had been finalized in the presence of Justice Douglas E. McKeon, with both sides agreeing that the settlement would be confidential, even though Strauss-Kahn was not present at the courtroom.

The former head of the International Monetary Fund, and hitherto French President aspirant was arrested in May 2011 after Ms. Diallo, a native of Guinea - had told detectives that he had assaulted her in his suite. He was then indicted on charges of attempted assault, abuse, criminal adult acts, unlawful imprisonment and forcible touching.

He resigned his position in the IMF in the aftermath of the whiplash trailing the allegations, and even had to abandon his intentions of running for the French presidency.

The case was eventually dismissed following what was described at that time as Ms. Diallo's persistent and at times inexplicable untruths in describing matters of both great and small significance.

Strauss-Kahn has consistently pleaded his innocence, saying the relations with Ms. Diallo was consensual.

It doesn't matter now: Diallo's struck gold!!!