# I Guess this Rich Fuckin' Banker \[Dominique Strauss-Kahn\] is Too Cheap to Hire a Hooker **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 15, 2011, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-this-rich-fuckin-banker-dominique-strauss-kahn-is-too-cheap-to-hire-a-hooker/581956 "2011-05-15T02:17:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Capitaine\_Zombie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@Capitaine\_Zombie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capitaine_Zombie)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-this-rich-fuckin-banker-dominique-strauss-kahn-is-too-cheap-to-hire-a-hooker/581956/221 "2011-05-19T20:10:40Z")
> [@suranyi](#): > > Bernard-Henri Lévy is incredibly self-deluded. How could that be, he’s Bernard-Henri Lévy. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-this-rich-fuckin-banker-dominique-strauss-kahn-is-too-cheap-to-hire-a-hooker/581956/222 "2011-05-19T20:13:17Z")
And he’s such a keen observer and expert on America. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-this-rich-fuckin-banker-dominique-strauss-kahn-is-too-cheap-to-hire-a-hooker/581956/223 "2011-05-19T20:18:58Z")
Nobody with one of those little marks over a letter in their last name can be deluded. ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-this-rich-fuckin-banker-dominique-strauss-kahn-is-too-cheap-to-hire-a-hooker/581956/224 "2011-05-19T20:22:00Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > By the way, do you have cites about him having reserved his flight or him calling back? Not that I doubt you, but I haven’t seen this before. It’s mentioned in his [application for bail.](http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/05/19/nyregion/20110519-Strauss-Kahn-Bail-Application.html?ref=nyregion) ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-this-rich-fuckin-banker-dominique-strauss-kahn-is-too-cheap-to-hire-a-hooker/581956/225 "2011-05-19T20:33:12Z")
> [@you\_with\_the\_face](#): > > What’s telling is that this argument is what is being used to demonstrate consent, and not something more explicit. If it’s true that his lawyer said this, then I don’t think things are going to go well for him, and it’s hard to feel sorry about that. > > I mean, at least say that she started undressing upon sight of his naked bod. That is evidence of consensual sex. “The maid entered my room alone” is an experience shared by 99% of all regular, late-sleeping hotel patrons, and somehow none of us assume this means sex is being offered. At least I don’t, and I have maids walk in on me all the time. (Even sometimes when I’m half naked.) It seems that the lawyer is going through the points in the rape defense handbook. 1: it never happened. A non-starter since they appear to be getting forensic evidenc e off of the carpet. :eek: 2: It was consensual. In 30 years of going to hotels way too often, I think two maids came into my room once - and one was a trainee. Not that I hang out in $3000 a night rooms, though. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-this-rich-fuckin-banker-dominique-strauss-kahn-is-too-cheap-to-hire-a-hooker/581956/226 "2011-05-19T20:33:16Z")
> [@Eva\_Luna](#): > > It’s mentioned in his [application for bail.](http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/05/19/nyregion/20110519-Strauss-Kahn-Bail-Application.html?ref=nyregion) I think I’d let him post-bail under those circumstances. He still very well may have raped the maid, but its pretty clear he wasn’t making a mad flight for France to elude justice afterwords. And with a monitoring bracelet and no passports, I seriously doubt he’s going anywhere. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-this-rich-fuckin-banker-dominique-strauss-kahn-is-too-cheap-to-hire-a-hooker/581956/227 "2011-05-19T20:37:19Z")
> [@Eva\_Luna](#): > > It’s mentioned in his [application for bail.](http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/05/19/nyregion/20110519-Strauss-Kahn-Bail-Application.html?ref=nyregion) Thank you. The information is on pages 5 and 6 in case anyone wants to look. It also mentions his daughter living in New York. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-this-rich-fuckin-banker-dominique-strauss-kahn-is-too-cheap-to-hire-a-hooker/581956/228 "2011-05-19T20:44:36Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > I think I’d let him post-bail under those circumstances. He still very well may have raped the maid, but its pretty clear he wasn’t making a mad flight for France to elude justice afterwords. And with a monitoring bracelet and no passports, I seriously doubt he’s going anywhere. I’d agree only if they used one of those “Running Man” collars, so if he gets more than 50 ft from his apartment his head explodes. He’s got enough money that he probably could get back to France secretly if he tried hard enough, and France won’t extradite their own citizens. If the trial looks like it’s going bad for him, I wouldn’t be surprised if he made a run for it. ---
**Author:** ![you\_with\_the\_face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ecccb3/32.png) [@you\_with\_the\_face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/you_with_the_face)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-this-rich-fuckin-banker-dominique-strauss-kahn-is-too-cheap-to-hire-a-hooker/581956/229 "2011-05-19T20:54:09Z")
> [@Capitaine\_Zombie](#): > > How could that be, he’s Bernard-Henri Lévy. I bet he knows what crudités are too. ---
**Author:** ![llcoolbj77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/eb9ed0/32.png) [@llcoolbj77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/llcoolbj77)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-this-rich-fuckin-banker-dominique-strauss-kahn-is-too-cheap-to-hire-a-hooker/581956/230 "2011-05-19T21:04:45Z")
Having worked with well over 1,000 criminals, I have to say that I have yet to come across a criminal mastermind. I just don’t buy the argument, “it would be so stupid for him to commit this crime, how could he possibly think he could get away with it.” Criminals do really REALLY stupid things. The only ones I have ever seen that truly try to, “cover their tracks,” in a smart way are on CSI and Law&Order. I will reserve judgment until after a trial. But the, “it’s just so stupid as to be implausible,” argument carries no water for me. ---
**Author:** ![beartato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9d8465/32.png) [@beartato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beartato)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-this-rich-fuckin-banker-dominique-strauss-kahn-is-too-cheap-to-hire-a-hooker/581956/231 "2011-05-19T21:37:07Z")
> [@Themenin](#): > > @ **Capitaine Zombie** Yes, I mostly live in Paris. A meetup should be arranged, I had no idea there were so many of us. Like, more than two, I mean. ---
**Author:** ![Gray\_Ghost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c0e974/32.png) [@Gray\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gray_Ghost)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-this-rich-fuckin-banker-dominique-strauss-kahn-is-too-cheap-to-hire-a-hooker/581956/232 "2011-05-19T23:02:18Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > I think I’d let him post-bail under those circumstances. He still very well may have raped the maid, but its pretty clear he wasn’t making a mad flight for France to elude justice afterwords. And with a monitoring bracelet and no passports, I seriously doubt he’s going anywhere. [The New York Supreme Court agrees with you.](http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2011/05/19/dominique-strauss-kahn-indicted-prosecutors-say/) Bye bye! [Accused of a criminal sex act in the first degree](http://www.outlookseries.com/A0997/Financial/Dominique_Strauss-Kahn_DSK_Sofitel_Hotel_Maid_Rape_Charge_criminal-court-complaint.pdf) (which carries a max 25 year prison sentence, BTW.) with a victim who immediately outcried to witnesses…yeah, I’d have to be real confident in my defense counsel to roll the dice with a trial. Hope the Manhattan District Attorney has an iron-clad contract with France that they’ll extradite DSK if he attempts to run there. Hey, maybe he’ll win. We’re certainly going to hear about every lie the maid ever told over the years this will take to go to trial. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-this-rich-fuckin-banker-dominique-strauss-kahn-is-too-cheap-to-hire-a-hooker/581956/233 "2011-05-20T02:08:36Z")
> [@blindboyard](#): > > And she was, according to Le Figaro, a practicing Muslim who wears a head scarf to obscure her hair, so the kinky-maids-outfit seems unlikely. Mmmm, headscarves. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-this-rich-fuckin-banker-dominique-strauss-kahn-is-too-cheap-to-hire-a-hooker/581956/234 "2011-05-20T03:17:48Z")
> [@Gray\_Ghost](#): > > Hope the Manhattan District Attorney has an iron-clad contract with France that they’ll extradite DSK if he attempts to run there. I read we do not have an Extradition Treaty with France. Googling is not delivering hard answer one way or the other. Do we ? ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-this-rich-fuckin-banker-dominique-strauss-kahn-is-too-cheap-to-hire-a-hooker/581956/235 "2011-05-20T03:34:25Z")
Even if we do have an extradition treaty now, would they hand over a French citizen? They haven’t acted on Roman Polanski. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-this-rich-fuckin-banker-dominique-strauss-kahn-is-too-cheap-to-hire-a-hooker/581956/236 "2011-05-20T05:51:29Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Even if we do have an extradition treaty now, would they hand over a French citizen? They haven’t acted on Roman Polanski. Roman Polanski wasn’t a political liability to the ego-maniacal standing President up for re-election. Sarko would hand him over in a New York minute. Hell, for that matter Marine Le Pen would probably row DSK across the Atlantic in a kayak herself given half a chance - she’s certainly been making a lot of noise about him being a 'orrible 'orrible man and everyone already knew about it therefore the political ideas of the Left are shit. Wait, wot ? ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-this-rich-fuckin-banker-dominique-strauss-kahn-is-too-cheap-to-hire-a-hooker/581956/237 "2011-05-20T05:54:57Z")
This guy put millions down for bail. Then every month he stays around for the trial, is going to cost him 200,000 bucks. He has a ton of money. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-this-rich-fuckin-banker-dominique-strauss-kahn-is-too-cheap-to-hire-a-hooker/581956/238 "2011-05-20T06:09:33Z")
Who else thinks he’ll pay her off and this whole issue will fade away? ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-this-rich-fuckin-banker-dominique-strauss-kahn-is-too-cheap-to-hire-a-hooker/581956/239 "2011-05-20T07:30:37Z")
This is weird. This guy is beginning to sound like some wild beast in heat. [This 2010 Book Says Dominique Strauss-Kahn Raped A Maid In Mexico](http://notas.guanabee.com/2011/05/2010-book-says-dominique-strauss-kahn-raped-maid-mexico/) > [@](#): > > A 2010 book entitled Dsk : Les secrets d’un présidentiable (DSK:Secrets of a presidential contender) by an anonymous French author who goes by the pseudonym “Cassandre”, alleges that IMF head and accused rapist Dominique Strauss-Kahn raped a maid in a hotel in Mexico while on a business trip. According to records, Strauss-Kahn took a trip there in 2006 and again in 2010 ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-this-rich-fuckin-banker-dominique-strauss-kahn-is-too-cheap-to-hire-a-hooker/581956/240 "2011-05-20T09:16:05Z")
> [@you\_with\_the\_face](#): > > “The maid entered my room alone” is an experience shared by 99% of all regular, late-sleeping hotel patrons, and somehow none of us assume this means sex is being offered. At least I don’t, and I have maids walk in on me all the time. (Even sometimes when I’m half naked.) In fact, maids automatically tell guests that they’re not there for sex and that you shouldn’t ask. That’s why they always say they’re going to turn down your bed. Thank you! I’m here all week at the Sofitel Lounge and Dinner Theatre! Try the veal! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-this-rich-fuckin-banker-dominique-strauss-kahn-is-too-cheap-to-hire-a-hooker/581956.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-this-rich-fuckin-banker-dominique-strauss-kahn-is-too-cheap-to-hire-a-hooker/581956.md?page=13)