Dominique Strauss-Kahn sues over 'stolen photos' of new girlfriend Mr Strauss-Kahn's lawyer said he was seeking 80,000 euros (£65,000) in damages from VSD, the first magazine to publish the photographs, and 50,000 euros from Closer. He said his client, who works at the France 2 television channel, had been "totally unknown to the public," and now the "most intimate details of her private life were unravelled." Mr Strauss-Kahn, a one-time contender for the French presidency, suffered a stunning fall from grace following his arrest at a New York hotel on sexual assault charges last year and a subsequent string of sex-related investigations in France. Mr Strauss-Kahn's wife of some two decades, Anne Sinclair, recently confirmed their split. A former television journalist and the heiress to a large fortune, Sinclair now runs the French edition of the Huffington Post.