Dominique Strauss-Kahn questioned as 'pimp' suspect Paying a prostitute is not in itself illegal in France, but profiting from vice or embezzling company funds to pay for sex can lead to charges. The former director of the International Monetary Fund admits that he has led an adventurous sexual life, but denies that he was implicated in pimping or corruption and has indicted he will deny any criminal wrongdoing. On May 14, Strauss-Kahn's career fell apart when he was arrested in New York following allegations that he had subjected chambermaid Nafissatou Diallo to a brutal sexual assault in his hotel suite. The case against him eventually fell apart when prosecutors began to doubt Diallo's credibility as a witness, and Strauss-Kahn returned home to France to face further investigations and scandal.