Dominique Strauss-Kahn Sex-Crime Case: Accuser Reportedly Lived In Apartment For HIV/AIDS Patients (UPDATED)

The New York Post reports that the woman accusing IMF boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault lived in an apartment exclusively for patients with HIV and AIDS.

From the Post:

The hotel maid, a West African immigrant, has occupied the fourth-floor High Bridge pad with her 15-year-old daughter since January -- and before that, lived in another Bronx apartment set aside by Harlem Community AIDS United strictly for adults with the virus and their families.

UPDATE: The woman's lawyer denies that his client has HIV or AIDS. On the Today Show, Jeffrey Shapiro called claims that the accuser has AIDS or HIV "outrageous."

"She lived in a sublet apartment in the Bronx," Shapiro said.

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Original story below:

The Post was unable to confirm if the accuser has HIV or AIDS because of medical confidentiality laws, but the paper allegedly confirmed that the agency rents apartments only for adults with the disease. A Harlem United employee said at least one adult in the apartment must be HIV-positive or have AIDS to qualify to live in one of the residences. Sources told the Post that only the alleged victim and her child lived in the apartment.

Strauss-Kahn is accused of forcing the woman to perform oral sex on him.

She told police that after the forced act, she spit his semen onto the floor. According to the federal Centers for Disease Control: "It is possible for either partner to become infected with HIV through performing or receiving oral sex."

Strauss-Kahn is on suicide watch at Rikers Island jail.

Calls intensified for Strauss-Kahn to step down as head of the International Monetary Fund, with U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner saying Strauss-Kahn "is obviously not in a position to run" the agency.

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Comments

[Dawn Bassett]

11:57 PM on 05/23/2011

SO WAHT!! IT STILL DOES NOT GIVE THIS "DIRT BOX" A LICENCE
TO DO WHAT HE DID.

BUT THEN AGAIN IT IS SURELY EVIDENT, HE DID TO HER WHAT HE HAS
BEEN ACCUSTOMED TO DOING.

YET, THE DIFFERNCE BEING IS THAT HE GOT CAUGHT OUT THIS TIME.

AND TOO - - BEHAVIOR HAS CONSEQUENCES. HE WILL BE DEALT WITH
SEVERELY, THIS ROUND.

[Julie99]

11:05 AM on 05/21/2011

The majority of Dominican prostituted women report two main objectives for being in the sex industry abroad: those with children said it was a financial necessity to feed and raise their children; and those without children said it was to buy a home for their parents. For most of the trafficked women, the husband, father or boyfriend accepted that they travel without ever clarifying exactly what king of job would be performed. And it was usually the husband, father or boyfriend who would receive the remittances from the women abroad. go and search, most are protitudes.

[Julie99]

10:52 AM on 05/21/2011

The New York Post reports that the woman accusing IMF boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault lived in an apartment exclusively for patients with HIV and AIDS.

The hotel maid, a West African immigrant, has occupied the fourth-floor High Bridge pad with her 15-year-old daughter since January - and before that, lived in another Bronx apartment set aside by Harlem Community AIDS United strictly for adults with the virus and their families.
Why is this so much in the news? Every day women are subjected to harrassment by lawyers, judges, police, employers, employees, customers, co workers, teachers,boyfriends, ex husbands, and suddenly a high profile French rich guy, it is suddenly a huge crime?
How do you know that this lady did not just set him up. Sounds like a he said /she said to me. Only ones winning in the case are the lawyers and that grand ole image of justice which has failed us all.
What maid goes into an occupied room anyway? Maid probably ripped her own dress and looking for $$$$$$.

[MrColdheart]

07:36 PM on 05/24/2011

Well lets actually play through some of what we know.

If the maid did in fact try to black mail DSK immediately after sex do you think him not going to the authorities and getting arrested the same day trying to fly out of country on a private jet hurt or helped him?

If the maid is a scam artist she would most likely have a criminal history of similar crimes and if one of DSK's enemies paid the maid then his ex-CIA defense team will certainly find a money trial.

I believe in innocent until proven guilty but DSK's actions don't have the weight for me to go around and blindly attack the maid.

[Mom6]

09:43 AM on 05/21/2011

Obviously, the guy was always after the women........but Im starting to wonder if he was
set up. After all, he was able to get far enough for her to spit the semen out on the rug.
WHY DIDNT SHE BITE HIM WHEN HE WAS IN HER MOUTH??????????????????
Hmmmmmmmmm.............................

[lyric220]

06:27 PM on 05/21/2011

maybe since he was probably holding her head she was afraid of him killing or severely injuring her? have you ever heard of massive head trauma?

[PlayTOE]

09:25 AM on 05/21/2011

So, because he was the head of the IMF he thought he could get away with anything ... and treated the hotel maid like a hooker ...
Now he has lost his job, is on charges for rape, and needs to go get an aids test ....

Sometimes a guy just has a really bad day.

[seealaska]

09:12 AM on 05/21/2011

A African immigrant hotel maid staying in an appartment with aids tenant an issue? What do you expect? she stayed at Ritz Carlton suite? Stupidity has its limit

[RepChicksDoRock1]

09:10 AM on 05/21/2011

Hmmmm I thought you were innocent until proven guilty in the USA. Doesn't seem that way from these comments.

[johnrf]

09:26 AM on 05/21/2011

You are innocent in the eyes of the law. Regular folks can have opinions just like you do.

[lily31]

08:47 AM on 05/21/2011

I don't believe he is innocent however it increasingly seems like a set up and if it was, it was an easy one, given his attitude and history.

[Mom6]

09:49 AM on 05/21/2011

I agree with you! I think it was a set up too....after all, why didnt she bite him when he was in her mouth? I dont get it!

[comicpro]

08:09 AM on 05/21/2011

The wild assumptions and conjecture here are worse than the end of the world people.

[comicpro]

08:02 AM on 05/21/2011

Thats right its her fault. Jesus! I hope that if thats true he caught it! Jackwagon.

[jambi77]

06:57 AM on 05/21/2011

Is Huffington Post playing along with the smear campaign now against this woman...

[johndpieper]

07:15 AM on 05/21/2011

No, I'm not convinced of that. I think the point is to demonstrate that you need to be careful if you're a wealthy playboy who believes he can treat women like ripened fruit. Just picking them as he pleases. There are MANY things money can not protect you from. I believe the news story is to smear Strauss, not the hotel housekeeper.

[jokamachi]

06:49 AM on 05/21/2011

Strauss was a world class socialist that held America's feet to the fire more than once. He believed in strict financial and regulatory reform, the sort that we could only hope for for Wall Street.

He had an Achilles heel when it came to women. I'm not saying he's innocent... thing look pretty bad right now, but if someone wanted to take the guy down this would have been the easiest way to do it.

[Konstantine]

08:52 AM on 05/21/2011

A "world-class socialist" he was not. He was the epitome
of a "champagne socialist", always wheeling and dealing
in the pursuit of personal power and wealth, cavorting
around in sports cars and presidential suites, a socialist
in name only. This is not to say that socialists need
to be like Gandhi, but this man's lifestyle and personal
choices and ambitions were symbolic of the worst excesses
of international gangster capitalism and financial engineering.

[harmonybringer]

05:18 AM on 05/21/2011

Well, with the payout coming, I hope she will move in better surroundings...

[Meok]

03:42 AM on 05/21/2011

Misdirection....This is not about the IMF....it's about the French presidency....It is possible that DSK was set up by a powerful French politician to liquidate his chances of winning the French presidency...The official story is full of holes.

[seealaska]

09:08 AM on 05/21/2011

Someone put a gun on his head and force him to rape a hotel maid? Come on man, thst powerful man is horny ...as usual

[General Public]

02:43 AM on 05/21/2011

Dominique Strass-Kahn, if he did get AIDS by raping a woman against her will, certainly deserves it. If he did not get AIDS, I am sure the criminal justice system will still find an appropriate punishment for his violent sex crime. And if he ever does get out of jail, he'll spend the rest of his life as a convicted sex offender, and rightly so. The French really need to ask themselves why they allowed such a depraved man to be one of their top Presidential candidates. I mean we have bad Presidential candidates too, like the Republican candidates for 2012, but at least none of them are rapists like Dominique Strass-Kahn. French attitudes about politicians' personal lives seem to be not to care at all about extramarital affairs or anything like that, and for the press to not investigate politicians' private lives. Now we see where such attitudes lead a nation: into an abyss where rapists are leading Presidential candidates. This wasn't even Dominique Strass-Kahn's first time raping a woman. A number of women have stepped forward to tell the press about how they, too, were also raped by him, and many of these reports are credible, coming from economists, politicians, and journalists who have known him over the years. It is good that in the United States, we care about politicians' private lives and the fact that they are not hypocrites or criminals. The IMF needs a female director to end the male chauvinism there.

[soundbite7]

08:49 AM on 05/21/2011

Your comments show an utter disregard for the concept of "innocent until proven guilty", not only with the hotel chamber maid, but with "other women" who you say also "were raped" by Strass-Kahn.
I don't know what country you are from, but in the USA we have something called "due process", where those accused of a crime are allowed to face their accuser in a court of law, not in the media with it's hearsay and conjecture. SNAP OUT of what is an obvious tendency on your part to believe whatever you read in the media. You will find that there is often more than meets the eye to these 'stories', and that the truth will set you free...

[lyric220]

06:39 PM on 05/21/2011

i didn't know that general public was a judge trying strauss-kahn in a court of law. if not, then he is more then entitled to voice his PERSONAL OPINION because it will not effect the outcome of strauss-kahn's trial and nor his access to due process. we all have access to the same information from the media, and if a layperson believes that he is guilty based on this information, then that is his choice. as long as someone who is ACTUALLY judging strauss-kahn in a court of law is doing it impartially, that is ultimately what matters. if you don't like someone stating that they think he's guilty, OH WELL. skip the freakin comment.