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The DSK Maid May Have Ruined It For Housekeepers Everywhere

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July 5, 2011 at 9:00 AM | by | Comments (2)

Update 7/5/11, 8:51pm: The housekeeper as now sued the NY Post for libel for printing stories that she was a prostitute.

In a stunning turn of events late last week, it was revealed that the housekeeper at the Sofitel New York who was allegedly assaulted by IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn was not such an innocent victim after all.

The NY Post is claiming that investigators discovered that she had been turning tricks at the hotel with other guests, which lends more credence to DSK's defense that the sex was consensual. She even reportedly resumed her "special trade" at a Brooklyn hotel where the Manhattan District Attorney's office had housed her while the investigation into DSK was carried out.

But not only does the housekeeper seem to have a unsavory past entertaining men for money, she's also a documented liar from her application for asylum from her native Guinea where she claimed she was gang-raped by soldiers to the number of children she has and most crucially for the DSK case, she lied about what she did immediately after the attack. (Initially, she said she called a supervisor. But later, she confessed to cleaning another suite first.)

Now, with charges against DSK expected to be dropped this week--since the case is "not sustainable"--housekeepers everywhere have officially been cheated.

Back when the scandal first broke, the plight of housekeepers finally came to light in the mainstream media and the call for housekeeper panic buttons seemed like a sure thing in the wake of a pervy monster like DSK.

But now, even though there are real housekeepers out there facing real unwanted sexual advances from creepy guests, it looks like their chances of being heard will just be swept under the rug...again.

We just hope that any upgrades hotels have may have made in terms of protecting their housekeeping staff will stick around. After all, even if DSK's sex was consensual,Mahmoud Abdel-Salam Omar's was not.

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Rushing to Judgment

Excuse me, but when you say "it was revealed" and "investigators discovered," you are pouring gasoline on a fire.

Specifically, one newspaper only has reported that: the New York Post.  Every other paper, with every hour that goes by, is conspicuous by its absence.

And even the Post attributed it's outrageous headlines to "a source close to" the defense.  That is, a buddy of DSK's very high-priced lawyers.  That could be a limo driver with a grudge, an unscrupulous secretary of a private eye, just about anyone.

And to this kind of isolated reporting you are adding fuel to the fire.  You should hold back and consider what this whole case has been about: a bunch of people in a rush to judgment.

Back off and check the facts before you spread more hate.

cgreen2323 on July 5, 2011 at 12:11 PM #Permalink

morris wise

The hotel maid should have stuck to prostitution,money laundering, and drug dealing. But she went over her pay grade when she tried to shake down one of the worlds most powerful men.
Morris Wise on July 6, 2011 at 2:08 PM #Permalink

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