France - Strauss-Kahn Investigation Dropped - NYTimes.com Prosecutors in Lille have dropped a sexual assault investigation into Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former International Monetary Fund chief, after a Belgian escort recanted her original account about a brutal encounter. But Mr. Strauss-Kahn, 63, still faces a criminal charge of participating in an organized prostitution ring, the result of sex parties that he attended in northern France and at a deluxe hotel in Washington. The prostitution ring, according to prosecutors, organized sex parties with mostly Belgian prostitutes in Lille, Paris, Brussels and Washington. Eight other men were also charged last October with participating in the ring. Mr. Strauss-Kahn was also arrested in New York in May 2011, following accusations that he sexually assaulted a maid in a Manhattan hotel. Those charges were later dropped after prosecutors concluded that his accuser had lied during the course of the investigation.