AFP, LILLE, France: A French court yesterday acquitted former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of pimping charges, drawing a line under the latest in a series of legal woes over his sexual escapades.
The 66-year-old economist merely nodded his head in acknowledgement of the verdict, the finale of a colourful trial which dragged intimate details of his sex life into the public eye.
His acquittal on the charge of aggravated pimping did not come as a surprise after the prosecutor called for him to be let off due to lack of evidence at the end of a three-week trial in February.
The trial was the latest in a long series of high-profile court cases in the past 15 years in which Strauss-Kahn has landed in the dock for corruption or sexual scandals that have fizzled out.