Daily Mail May 23, 2011 9:35AM
Dominique Strauss-Kahn is currently out on $6 million bail after he was charged with sexually assaulting a chambermaid. Picture: AFP Source: AFP
DOMINIQUE Strauss-Kahn told an Air France hostess she had a "nice a**e" just moments before police hauled him off his flight, it has been claimed.
The Daily Mail reports the former head of the International Monetary Fund, who has been charged with sexually assaulting a chambermaid, is also said to have tried to lure two other staff members to his $3000-a-night suite at New York's Sofitel hotel.
The new allegations emerged this morning as his wife, heiress Anne Sinclair, was spotted leaving the New York apartment building where he is under house arrest today.
She left the luxury high-rise in lower Manhattan near Wall Street this morning and got into an SUV. It's not clear where she was going.
Investigators have reportedly been told that, as the 62-year-old was being shown to his suite last Friday night, he asked the VIP receptionist escorting him to join him for a drink.
The next day he is said to have asked another receptionist, who had originally checked him in, to share a bottle of Dom Perignon champagne with him.
Mr Strauss-Kahn, who resigned from his position last week, is currently out on $6 million bail after he was charged with sexually assaulting a chambermaid.
He is now under 'house arrest' in a $4400-a-month apartment after being let out of New York’s notorious Rikers Island prison.
In reporting the latest wave of claims, The New York Post said investigators had interviewed all Sofitel employees and looked at more than 48 hours of video footage.
This included recordings of Strauss-Kahn leaving the Times Square hotel on Saturday afternoon without officially checking out, it added.
Sources told the newspaper that "although he did not explicitly ask either woman for sex, both described his advances as blatantly inappropriate".
French magazine Le Point added that Mr Strauss-Kahn called out 'What a nice a**e!' to an attendant, using the lewd French expression 'Quel beau cul!' as she prepared the business-class cabin for take-off last Saturday.
Mr Strauss-Kahn's wife, heiress and French television presenter Anne Sinclair, is understood to be paying the $4400 rent for his ‘golden cage’ on the fourth floor of an exclusive block of flats near the site of the former World Trade Center.
She is said to have put up her exclusive Washington D.C. town house as collateral to help raise $6 million for his bail - $1 million in cash and a $5million insurance bond.
If her husband absconds, she will forfeit the money and the house in the exclusive Georgetown district of Washington, which she bought in 2007 for $4 million.
Miss Sinclair is also paying $243,000 for armed guards, who have been posted outside the apartment’s gold-and-marble portico to ensure the 62-year-old politician does not try to flee to France.
Assistant District Attorney Artie McConnell, the prosecutor who brought the charges, strongly objected to the house arrest, saying the area close to Ground Zero was ‘problematic for the police to control’.
And the prosecutor claimed residents of the building were enraged when they were told Strauss-Kahn had moved into the sprawling two-bedroom apartment.
However, they had been assured that he would not be allowed to use the building’s gym or billiards room. He could leave the building only to attend religious services or seek essential medical treatment.
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