Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn and a hotel maid who accused him of trying to rape her have reached an agreement to settle her lawsuit, likely ending a legal saga that forced the onetime French presidential contender's resignation and opened a floodgate of accusations against him, a person familiar with the case said Thursday. Lawyers for Strauss-Kahn and the housekeeper, Nafissatou Diallo, made the as-yet-unsigned agreement within recent days, with Bronx Supreme Court Justice Douglas McKeon facilitating that and a separate agreement to end another lawsuit Diallo filed against the New York Post, said the person, who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity to discuss the private agreement. Mr. Strauss-Kahn’s lawyer, William W. Taylor III, said in a telephone interview on Friday morning that the French reports were “completely false” and that the $6 million figure “is off by orders of magnitude,” but he would not elaborate and details of the agreement could not immediately be determined. Photo 
 
 In August 2011, the Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., moved to dismiss the seven-count indictment, and a judge dropped the charges. "I really expected it to go a little farther," said Matthew Galluzzo, a criminal defense lawyer and civil litigator who has been following the Strauss-Kahn case closely. Mr. Strauss-Kahn, once a leading candidate for the French presidency, was arrested in May 2011 after Ms. Diallo, an immigrant from Guinea, told the police that he had sexually assaulted her when she came to clean his 28th-floor suite at the Sofitel hotel. Mr. Strauss-Kahn also has legal troubles in France, where he was charged in Lille in October 2011 with participating in an organized prostitution ring, a result of sex parties that he attended in northern France and at a deluxe hotel in Washington.
– The criminal charges were dropped last year; now, Dominique Strauss-Kahn and hotel maid Nafissatou Diallo are settling her lawsuit over claims he tried to rape her, a source tells the AP. The settlement, whose terms are likely to be kept secret, is poised to mark the end of a long legal battle. A Bronx Supreme Court justice oversaw the settlement, as well as another deal centered on Diallo's lawsuit against the New York Post, which labeled her a prostitute. The parties will likely appear in court next week in the Bronx, insiders tell the New York Times. Meanwhile, charges remain against Strauss-Kahn for alleged involvement in a prostitution ring—but French judges are mulling whether to drop those charges, a decision that would come by Dec. 19. August saw a separate rape case against the former International Monetary Fund chief dropped.