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Once in Love With Anne Sinclair
My brief love affair with DSK’s wife.
A wise man once said, “Show me a man who is married to a beautiful woman, and I’ll show you a man who’s tired of sleeping with her.”
When I heard this, I finally understood the Dominique Strauss Kahn (DSK) case. He must have been tired of his beautiful, devoted wife. How else to explain his penchant for tomcatting?
Their marriage was straight out of a storybook — except that they both jettisoned prior families to run off together. The public didn’t seem to care about that. The French love steamy emotions and here was a handsome left-wing politician schmoozing with, then marrying , a stunning millionaire heiress-journalist. (Their broken marriages and offspring therefrom are rarely mentioned.)
I speak from a sort of arm’s length experience on this case because I too have been in love with Strauss-Kahn’s wife, Anne Sinclair, the talented, intelligent green-eyed beauty he has been cheating on for most of their 19-year marriage. I never managed to meet her but a colleague of mine once saw her at Fouquet’s on the Champs Elysées. He couldn’t wait to get back to the office and tell me. That was as close as I came.
In the 1970s, Anne was a political interviewer on French television. She had what the French call allure (style). Oh boy, did she. Dozens of the nation’s leaders, including Strauss-Khan, spilled their guts when she got them under her spell in front of the camera. She did it with breathtaking charm.
In her heyday, most of France came to a halt on Sunday evenings to watch her perform and to see the sparkle in the eyes of aging barons of French politics as they tripped over themselves to please her.
She was a cross between Charlie Rose and Baba Wawa only gorgeous and very feminine to boot. CNN’s tabloid journalist and non-phone-tapper Piers Morgan (or is it Morgan Piers — I can never remember) could learn a few tricks from her. He never seems to get beyond “But how did it f-e-e-e-l to win the Oscar?”
But the upshot of the DSK saga, the best summer melodrama of 2011, left France strangely polarized when the criminal charges against him were dropped yesterday.
The now-paunchy, puffy Strauss-Khan (known in Paris as “the sperm whale”), the disgraced former head of the International Monetary Fund, walked into the arms of the French Socialist party, battered but not bowed, and now a victim of what is described here as the very unfair, prudish and petty American judicial system. He may well find a future in victimhood.
Or he may actually be a factor in French politics again.
Pierre Moscovici, a leading Socialist member of l’Assemblée Nationale, said with regret that it is too late for Strauss-Khan to jump into the 2012 presidential race — for which he was once considered a shoo-in — “but his word will count for a great deal in this election.” Moscovici implored the media to leave DSK alone and let him recover from his awful ordeal. Moscovici did not mention the black woman, Nafissatou Diallo, who charged DSK with attempted rape in a New York hotel room. The hard evidence, including DSK’s sperm on the wall, was also delicately bypassed.
In the other corner was Anne Mensouret, a former Strauss-Kahn plaything, who said she was seething with “revulsion and indignation” over the collapse of the case. Besides being an ex-lover, she is the mother of Tristane Banon, a fledgling novelist who says DSK also jumped her during an interview eight years ago. Ms. Banon has filed attempted rape charges against him in the French courts but she lacks any evidence. This will be a slam-dunk for Strauss-Kahn’s lawyers.
His last obstacle will be Ms. Diallo’s civil case against him, but that will come down to money, and Anne Sinclair seems to have plenty of that.
Various other political figures will be offering their views on the DSK case in the days ahead, mostly of the let’s turn-the-page variety.
DSK has had his scrapes with the law twice before in France, but both cases involved money and neither led to a conviction.
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scythe| 8.24.11 @ 6:49AM
Notice how the world is filled with very RICH socialist leaders while those whom they "lead" are miserable and impoverished? Think there's a connection? Somewhere? Anywhere?
Seek| 8.24.11 @ 3:40PM
There are plenty of capitalists who have mistresses. What planet are you from?
Doug| 8.24.11 @ 6:48PM
But rich capitalists make no apologies for those whom they lead, be they rich or poor. What happened to the socialist's credo, "spread the wealth"?
scythe| 8.24.11 @ 8:09PM
Hopefully not yours. Mistresses? See that word in my post, do you? Or are you seeing it in your dreams. Read. What. I . Wrote. Take. Your. Time. What I was highlighting was the incongruity of "rich" socialists. Your knee jerk hissy spit was a typical REACTION (ary) of those who don't want anyone to think too long and deep about the fraud of socialism. So you made a pathetic attempt to change the subject and toss around words never written but are symptomatic of your personal pathology. The air must be very thin on your bit of space in the solar system.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 8.24.11 @ 7:14AM
Even with socialists the man is the perpetrator and women who spread their legs have been raped in some manner.
Bridgette| 8.24.11 @ 8:47AM
And to think I have stayed in Sofitel NYC on four separate occasions. "Such luxury, cleanliness, and scrupulous attention to detail" I thought.
Little did I know that naked old men had been squirting their semen all over the carpets, walls, beds, and furniture.
Semen (not to mention urine) from FOUR different men besides Strauss "Kinky" Kahn were found in the hotel. Urine? Use your imagination.
When men are rich and powerful, women will spread their legs, stick out their tongues, and perform the most degrading, kinky sex for their MAN.
Yes, the richer and more powerful the man, the more depraved he wants his sex. "Kinky" is too lame to describe their appetites.
Bon appetit, PIGS,.
Tina T.| 8.24.11 @ 9:28AM
NYC Sofitel?
Isn't this the hotel Ben Stein brags about staying in on his frequent trips to The Big Apple?
He's described it on many occasions in his usual sickening, salivating style.
Pretty in Pink| 8.24.11 @ 1:39PM
All that semen slinging in that one room! The semen of five different men!
Lord have mercy! Bring me my smelling salts.
You won't find me checking in to Sofitel any time soon. I'm way too germ conscious.
When visiting the Big Apple, it's not just bedbugs you have to worry about, it's body fluids all over the place.
Clorox and Lysol Cleaner! That's what you need to pack in your toilette bag.
Occam's Tool| 8.24.11 @ 2:04PM
Bridgette---I love my wife and have never cheated on her. We have been married now for almost 16 years, with the world's Two Cutest Children.
Maybe you'll find the faithful guy you want to do wild things with. My wife did. G-d Bless you in your search for someone who will treat you as a lady away from the bedroom, and in the fashion you wish within it.
Bridgett| 8.24.11 @ 4:18PM
Occam's Tool,
Sex is way too messy for me . . . all those repulsive body fluids. I've had my share of dicks, and I am most happy never to be bothered with them again.
You and your wife can wallow like to hogs in heat all you want.
My thoughts and desires are a little more elevated.
Anommynous| 8.24.11 @ 7:43AM
"And yes, she had an abortion afterward, but she doesn't want to talk about that. 'There are some things that must stay between two people and God,' she told the magazine."
As if she believes in God.
Dan Hirsch| 8.24.11 @ 9:01AM
And actually isn't it between three people?
DSK-Yuck!
He almost makes Bill Clinton look respectable-NOT!
Irene | 8.24.11 @ 6:36PM
Anne Sinclair can still sleep with this man? Amazing!
Has Anne ever heard of STDs? Her husband must have them oozing from under his toenails.
da monk| 8.24.11 @ 7:56AM
Are the American Spectator and the National Enquire one and the same publication? Aren't there more important issues than DSK and his affairs? Publishing this article does your magazine your publication no good favor. Lets discuss issues that matter not tintallating "gossip"
Drudge Ette Obama| 8.24.11 @ 8:08AM
da monk - admit it...you luvvvvvvvveeedddd reading this. Vicariously, of course.
da monk| 8.24.11 @ 7:17PM
Yes, I do enjoy reading the American Spectator. Not for the reason you do. I like to view both sides of a "question" and A.S. gives me a good idea where the "hard Right" (NOT Far Right)
position is on different topics regarding our
country, our politics, our Constitution. Most of the articles I disagree with, but at times agree. What I find most frightening are the regular readers make and their suggestions and their viturperative comments they make with any person who disagrees with them. It makes me kind of think they never attended a civics class, read the Constitution or listened to what someone with a different opinion has to say. Rather than debating they usually resort to calling them names. Which defeats, to my mind, their knowledge and creditability.
Shill Watch| 8.24.11 @ 7:22PM
We are not looking to make friends with trolls, troll.
skip| 8.25.11 @ 1:45PM
Nice try asswipe.
Your stupidity, and your dishonesty, is splattered throughout the archives on American Spectator.
Redstateboy| 8.24.11 @ 8:33AM
where in Socialism is the tenet: "Personal Responsibility" ? Socialism seems to be entirely predicated on Not be personally responsible - for Anything! You can be a DSK or a Welfare dirtbag and you're never to be held personally responsible for your actions.. with Socialists.. your actions are to be excused, understood but Never should you be held to account.
Anthony| 8.24.11 @ 9:03AM
Well, much to the delight of his fellow elitist and TAS contributer, Ben Stein, DSK will prance free of the leftist NY justice system, which has worked according to it's obligation to protect the leftist elites of this world.
This was forseen months ago, as the D.A. performed his Fandango dance, with worries that the victim was not suitable for presentation to a jury.
Damn the forensic evidence and D.N.A., there's a lefty to be protected, and no poor black African woman will stand in our way!!!
Humm, if only the Duke prosecutor had the same training as the N.Y. D.A.'s.
Oh well, a small payoff to this woman and DSK is free to work his wonderful sexual magic again.
As Louie Armstrong sang, "It's a beautiful world", especially when you're a pampered lefty elitist.
da monk| 8.24.11 @ 7:20PM
Anthony: Haven't you learned, in our system of government you are innocent UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY. Not by proclomation
Frog in Uniform| 8.24.11 @ 9:28AM
As a french, I can't tell you how much I'm delighted not to have Monsieur DSK as our next president. The man is morally corrupt, is an arrogant prick and a pompous ass. He's responsible for our sad economic situation in France and belongs to that fraternity of rich leftists frenchies who want the state to raise the taxes while paying their taxes in USA only and at a much lower rate. As mentioned in this article DSK was involved in several brushes with the law, but the guy, teflon like, Slick Willie style, managed to dodge all attempts to bring him to court. I previously wrote that the Frogs are more worthy than their political class, because they are too busy working for a living, fighting foreign wars, serving and protecting, to care for politics. This is our pride and this is our curse.
Michael| 8.27.11 @ 9:10PM
Helas, M. Frog, we in America are soon to join you, really, already have. I met plenty of French people, not only in the rural areas and smaller towns, but also in Paris, who were disgusted by their government and the degenerate doings among the elites.
Stuart Koehl| 8.24.11 @ 9:37AM
Nowhere in this article is any mention made of the mishandling of the case by the New York District Attorney's office, incompetence bordering on malfeasance. The New York City DA's office has a highly capable and well known sex crimes unit (much better than the one depicted on Law & Order: SVU) that knows how to build cases against sexual predators and how to deal with often traumatized and sometimes problematic witnesses. But the District Attorney, mesmerized by the political implications of the DSK case, was not content to let his professionals handle the case as it should have been. Instead, he put together a special team built around high ranking supervisory ADAs, with only two ADAs from the sex crimes unit. It was the high-powered politicos on the prosecution team that decided to try the case in the press; it was the politicos who completely failed to protect their key witness, to gain her trust, and to deal with potential pitfalls in her background and testimony (in handling sex crimes, attacking the accuser is the standard defense tactic, either to make the accusation seem incredible, or to make the sex seem consensual, or to make it look as though the victim "had it coming"). They're to blame for the implosion of the case against DSK, but I doubt they will suffer any consequences because of it. Meanwhile, the next woman molested by a rich, powerful, foreign political official (and New York is just overrun by such EuroTrash) will definitely think twice before lodging a complaint. Thanks so much, Mr. District Attorney.
Occam's Tool| 8.24.11 @ 2:07PM
In addition, while Ben Stein was certainly wrong that he should have been treated differently because he was powerful, he was DEFINITELY RIGHT in the presumption of innocence before proof. The number of AS readers who lined up to hit DSK before proof were astounding, and one particular idol of the Libertarians lined up to hit before proof, as well. DSK hopefully has grounds to sue Dr. Paul.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 8.24.11 @ 9:46AM
It may have been mishandled but your assumption is that he was quilty. The only real facts to emerge is that they had sex and that she had lied about being raped before. DSK should file a lawsuit against these boobs and I hope he wins.
PolishKnight| 8.24.11 @ 10:34AM
When you look at her all made up above, in the professional photograph, she looks almost like an older version of Juliette Binoche.
Then I googled her on google images and she looks amazingly similar, in normal life, like the maid in the case. No man should marry without first seeing what she looks like first thing in the morning! :-)
Gary| 8.24.11 @ 11:06AM
It must be nice ti have your cake and eat it as does this French bonvivant. My late wife of 41 years would have had my head on a platter among various other delicate body parts for a just a hint of such behavior. Of course our friends the Freeennnnch love such dallying and they were probably thus distracted as Hitler and his less amorous minions had their way with them in WWII. They should assign inspector Clouseau to this guy's escapades.
Riff Raff| 8.24.11 @ 11:16AM
OK. She's pretty. I'd "do" her! So what?! She's a rich hottie who "laid down with the lion" (Oops! Should I have said that?) and got... whatever. What you have here are two despicable human jackasses, people with so much power and wealth that they think they are above the rest of society and they act like it. If only their worlds would really collapse around them, as in a Shakespearean tragedy.
Occam's Tool| 8.24.11 @ 2:08PM
Well, Riff Raff, you know what they say---Madness Takes Its Toll. (I love your monicker.)
Kilgore Trout| 8.24.11 @ 11:20AM
That lefty scum should have his a$$ kicked and that "lovely" wife must have ZERO self-esteem to put up with him for one minute.
Dora| 8.24.11 @ 1:27PM
I agree. No self-esteem and no pride either.
You get what you paid for !
Bill S| 8.24.11 @ 2:41PM
It's hard to respect someone who cheats or allows their spouse to cheat.
Peter McGrath| 8.24.11 @ 3:27PM
Scum.
Sabine from the Loire| 8.24.11 @ 4:47PM
You Americans are so uncultured. We the sophisticated have nuanced and advanced tastes -especially concerning l'amour. And your Bill Clinton is so sensuous, so erotic that we women in France would consider it an honour to bed with him.
And we all know, tout le monde, that most of you conservatives are gay.
shipley130| 8.25.11 @ 5:10PM
In your world, cultured means horny hound dogs set loose on society. The only thing cultured about that is the culture that comes back showing you that you have an STD.
Frog in Uniform| 8.24.11 @ 5:32PM
Mais qu'est ce que tu racontes, Sabine? Tu fumes encore la moquette? Pas celle du Sofitel, j'espere...
beebop| 8.24.11 @ 6:21PM
I am not the least bit concerned for or about either DSK or his "wife." But wouldn't it be difficult (even for the French) to elect a man to the presidency who has no hesitation to have sexual intercourse as indiscriminately as the Con?
shipley130| 8.24.11 @ 6:42PM
All the players are gross. Anne is gross for letting a creepy, hunchback walking hard on loose in the public. The other two need no explanation.
D Roamer | 8.24.11 @ 8:13PM
Lets agree that the french are different in marital affairs. If he has harmed no one, no stealing, spoke ill of others in mixed company; he is a rogue and it appears has done no harm.
Skippy| 8.24.11 @ 8:16PM
His wife?
Wife?
Try receptacle.
John II| 8.24.11 @ 11:44PM
In his De Bello Gallico, Julius Caesar has the following to say about the French, in a passing comparison with the Germans:
Nunc quoniam in eadem inopia egestate patientia, qua ante, Germani permanent, eodem victu et cultu corporis utuntur, Gallis autem provinciarum propinquitas et transmarinarum rerum notitia mala ad copiam atque usus largitur, paulatim adsuefacti superari, multisque victi proeliis, ne se quidem ipsi cum illis virtute comparant.
For the Germans, substitute Americans, and that just about sums it up regarding the Frogs.
And now back to "Caesar and Cleopatra" (1945), a Brit extravaganza made near the climax of World War II and based on an 1889 play by the Brit gasbag Bernard Shaw. Despite which, Claude Rains plays a charming Caesar, ever the Italian gentleman opposite the scheming African beauty played by Vivien Leigh. Thank God Caesar was no Frenchie.
Sharon Kass| 8.25.11 @ 5:11AM
People become chronic cheaters not because of their partners but because of their own emotionally unfortunate childhoods. Men who were misfathered as boys have a weak sense of masculinity. Cheating is both a flight from the realities of marriage and a pursuit of an ego-enhancing fantasy.
John II| 8.25.11 @ 11:31AM
"People become chronic cheaters not because of their partners but because of their own emotionally unfortunate childhoods."
Analogy: People become criminals not because of their choices, over which they have no control, but because of their own impoverished childhoods.
Counterpoint: If either of these determinist propositions were true, where do the words "cheaters" and "criminals" come from?
And now back to "Bedtime for Bonzo" (1951), in which a real-life future president of the United States plays a liberal psychology professor certain that environment is the sole determining factor in behavior. He got better before he became president.
lanvigne| 8.26.11 @ 12:44AM
All that semen slinging in that one room! The semen of five different men!
monster energy drinks
police aviator sunglasses
tatyce| 8.26.11 @ 5:57AM
with the DNA evidence?? wonder y he went free... where is justice there? is it ok 4the rich to oppress the poor? is justice jes for the rich? wat if he is really guilty? what abut the maidz feelings n emotions? what about womens rights n respect? justice has to prevail......it jes has to..
travel-trip | 8.28.11 @ 10:10AM
Nice News..I love this...
Thankyou
ChiefEngineer| 8.28.11 @ 11:08PM
Euro Trash. He's garbage and so is his slutty, trollop, wife. They deserve each other. Stupid Frogs.