Dominique Strauss-Kahn's Wife Stands By Her Man
LatestDominique Strauss-Kahn has been released from Rikers Island jail, and can now look forward to returning home to his loving wife, Anne Sinclair.
According to a profile in the New York Times, Sinclair has been standing by this man since 1991 when the two were married.
It was like any other fairy tale. She was a famous TV journalist, interviewing the likes of Bill Clinton and Madonna, “she was married in a room with a bust of Marianne – the symbol of freedom and republican pride in France – that was modeled on her”, and then she quit her show after 13 years “to avoid a conflict of interest when her husband became finance minister in 1997”:
“When you spend 13 years interviewing politicians,” she said then, “you aren’t fascinated by power anymore.”
Still, she was the driving force behind Mr. Strauss-Kahn’s political ambitions, and her wealth, inherited from her grandfather, the art dealer Paul Rosenberg, enabled the couple to live lavishly and independently, with two extraordinary apartments in Paris, a $4 million house in Georgetown and a riad in Marrakesh.
She also helped finance a group of political advisers, press aides and Internet sites that were preparing the ground for what was soon supposed to be a triumphant return to France for Mr. Strauss-Kahn, to begin a race for the presidency many thought he would win.
“She always wanted to prove that, 75 years after Léon Blum, the French were capable of electing a Jew,” a friend told Le Monde. “In her eyes, that would be a formidable revenge on history.”
Who would’ve guessed that instead of riding off into the sunset in a sports car of some kind, she would now be standing by Mr. Strauss-Kahn during multiple allegations of rape and sexual assault?