DSK to sue over sex club’s name
Disgraced former head of IMF launches legal action against owners of the “Dodo Sex Klub” in Belgium
DOMINIQUE Strauss-Kahn has started legal action in Belgium to stop a brothel using the initials DSK.
Mr Strass-Kahn began proceedings after Dominique Alderweireld, aka “Dodo la Saumure”, announced plans to open the “Dodo Sex Klub” in the town of Blaton in Belgium, near the French border. It opened on Wednesday.
Lawyers for the disgraced former head of the International Monetary Fund said he was suing Mr Alderweireld, 64, for deliberately choosing a name that 'reproduces his (Strauss-Kahn's) initials which identify him to all’.
The two men will appear together in court next year over the so-called “Carlton Affair”, named after the posh hotel in Lille where Mr Strauss-Kahn attended sex parties.
Mr Strauss-Kahn's lawyers insist he had no idea the women taking part in the parties were prostitutes. But prosecutors say he was central to the organisation of what amounted to orgies.
It is the only outstanding criminal action against Mr Strauss-Kahn, following the withdrawal of the charges of attempted rape of a hotel chamber maid brought against him in New York in 2011.
That scandal forced Mr Strauss-Kahn to resign as head of the IMF.
Mr Alderweireld, whose nickname “La Saumure” translates as “brine” and is French slang for pimp, admits he is seeking to exploit the publicity surrounding the various “affaires DSK”.
The full name of his new establishment is the “Dodo Sex Klub”, and he has said he plans to open another club called “The Carlton”, near Comines on the France-Belgium border.
A statement by his Belgian lawyer said: "Mr Strauss-Kahn has announced that he will take all judicial measures necessary to end the damage to his name which results from this."
