Strauss-Kahn Cleared of Sex Party Charges

Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn “has been cleared of pimping charges in a French trial that hinged on sex parties that took place in the midst of the global financial crisis,” the AP reports.

“Strauss-Kahn had told the court the parties were much-needed ‘recreational sessions’ and he did not know the women who took part were prostitutes. In often sordid testimony, the women described sometimes brutal get-togethers that, they said, were not fun for them at all.”