Sex Trade Worker Compares to Roman Orgies Parties She and Ex-IMF Boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn Attended

Feb 11, 2015 05:15 AM EST

(Photo : Reuters) Former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn leaves his hotel to attend the trial in the so-called Carlton Affair, in Lille, February 11, 2015, where 14 people including Strauss-Kahn stand accused of sex offences including the alleged procuring of prostitutes. Strauss-Kahn is charged with "procuring with aggravating circumstances". The trial is expected to run for at least three weeks, court officials said. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes (FRANCE - Tags: CRIME LAW HEADSHOT)

A female sex trade worker who uses the name Jade identified former International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Dominique Straus-Kahn as one of the men she had sex with. Jade provided testimony as part of the ongoing trial of Strauss-Kahn in Lille, France.

"That's him, with clothes on," the New York Daily News quotes Jade who said she had engaged in parties similar to Roman orgies.

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"It was like antiquity: a man spread out on a bed with many women around. There weren't other men, so it wasn't about being a libertine."

For his part, the former IMF head who was ousted from his post due to sexual molestation charges filed by a hotel employee in Manhattan, admitted to having a liberated attitude towards partying. However, he insisted on Tuesday that he thought the women present in the parties and with whom he had sex with were only friends.

The trial, though is no longer about the hotel worker's complaint but aggravated pimping charges against Strauss-Kahn as well as being part of a sex mafia operating in Lille's Hotel Carlton.

While the 65-year-old Strauss-Kahn, who was planning to run for president in France, considers himself a libertine, Jade said what they were doing was revolting and made her sick in the stomach as she stresses, "There was something that repulses me: the people and bodies blended together without condoms."

Strauss-Kahn attempted to debunk his image as a playboy and great seducer, telling the court that it wasn't a case of unbridled activity since he participated in such parties on 12 times or four per year over three years, from 2009 to 2011, at the height of the global financial crisis.

As head of the IMF, he had a very hectic life and those parties were just few of the rate outlets he had for recreation. Strauss-Kahn said he then thought that his female orgy mates were just a group of friend, and had he known they were prostitutes, he would have stopped taking part in those licentious affairs.

To support Strauss-Kahn's excuse, two co-defendants - Fabrice Paszkowski and David Roquet - said they never told the IMF boss that the hired prostitutes for those parties.

Although prostitution is legal in France, it is considered a crime to solicit clients or to operate a prostitution business. If Strauss-Kahn is convicted, he could be fined US$1.7 million.