The chief of the International Monetary Fund – a Frenchman nicknamed “the great seducer” – was arrested early Sunday after a Manhattan hotel maid accused him of sexual assault.
Port Authority cops hauled Dominique Strauss-Kahn, 62, from the first-class cabin of Paris-bound Air France Flight 23 moments before its 4:40 p.m. takeoff from Kennedy Airport on Saturday, cops said.
Strauss-Kahn, a top presidential contender in France who is married to a New York-born journalist, was arrested on charges of criminal sexual act, attempted rape, and an unlawful imprisonment, police said.
The 32-year-old Sofitel hotel maid provided a terrifying account of the attack to cops.
At about 1 p.m., she walked into Strauss-Kahn’s $3,000-a-night-suite – Room 2806 – at the posh W. 44th St. hotel, thinking it was empty.
Strauss–Kahn emerged from the bathroom naked, chased her down the hallway in his suite and yanked her into a bedroom, where he sexually assaulted her, the maid told police.
She fought him off, but he dragged her into the bathroom, forced her to perform oral sex and tried to peel off her panties.
At one point, he tried to lock the suite’s door.