Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn's stunning fall from grace will be presented on a Paris stage this week in a play focusing on his sex scandals.
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"L'Affaire" "retraces the steps of a man who, at any cost, follows
his desires to the end," the play's authors Jean-Louis Bauer and
Philippe Adrien wrote on the theatre's website.
"In the beginning
there is a dream -- to climb to the highest office. In the end, there is
nothing but the horror of the fall, a nightmare," they wrote of the
show that plays from Thursday to Sunday at the Theatre de la Tempete.
The
play focuses in part on Strauss-Kahn's relationship with his journalist
wife Anne Sinclair, who has stood by him through his scandals.
US
director Abel Ferrara said this year that he plans to film a
Strauss-Kahn movie, featuring Gerard Depardieu as the fallen
International Monetary Fund boss and Isabelle Adjani as his loyal wife.
A
one-time frontrunner for the French presidency, Strauss-Kahn's career
collapsed after his arrest last year on accusations he sexually
assaulted a New York hotel maid.
The charges were eventually
dropped but Strauss-Kahn, 63, has since faced a series of criminal and
civil actions in connection with alleged sex crimes.
The hotel
maid, Nafissatou Diallo, has launched a civil suit against Strauss-Kahn
in New York seeking unspecified damages, while he has in turn filed a $1
million countersuit for malicious prosecution and defamation.
In
France, Strauss-Kahn, two businessmen and a police chief were in March
charged with "aggravated pimping in an organised gang" for allegedly
organising a prostitution ring for orgies in France, the United States
and elsewhere.
French prosecutors have also opened a preliminary
investigation into accusations he took part in a gang rape in the United
States.
Strauss-Kahn denies committing criminal acts in both cases.
Source:msn.com
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