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| How France hid the sleazy truth about the rutting chimpanzee, by Tristane Banon |
| 2011-05-21 |
| The setting was one of those faux-intimate chat-shows that are the staple of late-night French TV, with minor celebrities and media types swapping small-talk over a candlelit dinner. With the wine flowing, host Thierry Ardisson laconically invited guests at the cosy soiree to name the politician who harboured the guiltiest secret — and unwittingly unearthed a major sex scandal. ‘For me it was with Dominique Strauss-Kahn that things went super-wrong!’ exclaimed a pretty young blonde writer named Tristane Banon, and went on to claim that the then highly-respected former French finance minister had tried to rape her. |
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