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Re: Justice in the Jew.S.A. *LINK*
Posted By: karibkween In Response To: Re: Justice in the Jew.S.A. (karibkween)
Date: Tuesday, 5 July 2011, at 2:44 p.m.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The hotel maid who accused former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault sued the New York Post and five of its journalists for libel on Tuesday for reporting that she was a prostitute.
The 32-year-old Guinean immigrant accused the Post of publishing defamatory articles between July 2-4 "in an apparent desperate attempt to bolster its rapidly plunging sales."
The suit filed in Bronx state court seeks damages to be determined at trial for articles it said the Post knew were false or should have known were false before they were published.
A spokesman for the Post was not immediately available for comment.
On Friday prosecutors called into question the woman's credibility for a series of lies about her background including a false story about being gang-raped on her application for U.S. asylum.
The Post reported on Saturday that the Sofitel housekeeper "was doing double duty as a prostitute, collecting cash on the side from male guests." An article the following day reported that the housekeeper "continued to work as a prostitute in a Brooklyn hotel where she was stashed by prosecutors."
"All of these statements are false, have subjected the plaintiff to humiliation, scorn and ridicule throughout the world by falsely portraying her as a prostitute or as a woman who trades her body for money and they constitute defamation and libel per se," the suit said.
(This article has been modified to show the suit has been filed in the Bronx, not Manhattan; fixes number of defendants)
DSK accuser sues NY Post for "prostitute" report
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