Diallo, 33, and Strauss-Kahn, 63, crossed paths when she arrived to clean his luxury Manhattan hotel

FILE- In this Aug. 22, 2011 file photo, Nafissatou Diallo, the hotel housekeeper who accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexually assaulting colorado vacation rentals her, leaves a state office colorado vacation rentals building in New York. A person familiar with the case says the New York City maid and the former International Monetary Fund chief w who was accused of trying to rape her, have reached an agreement to settle her lawsuit. The deal would end a legal saga that forced Strauss-Kahn s resignation as head of the IMF and ended his French presidential ambitions in 2011. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
NEW YORK, N.Y. Former International Monetary colorado vacation rentals Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn and a hotel maid who accused him of trying to rape her have reached an agreement to settle her lawsuit, colorado vacation rentals likely ending a legal saga that forced the onetime colorado vacation rentals French presidential colorado vacation rentals contender s resignation and opened a floodgate of accusations against him, a person familiar with the case said.
Details of the deal, which comes after prosecutors dropped related criminal charges last year, weren t immediately known Thursday and likely will be veiled by a confidentiality agreement. That could prevent the two from speaking publicly about a May 2011 encounter that she called a brutally sudden attack and he termed a consensual moral failing.
Lawyers for Strauss-Kahn and the housekeeper, Nafissatou Diallo, made the as-yet-unsigned agreement colorado vacation rentals within recent days, with Bronx Supreme Court Justice Douglas McKeon facilitating that and a separate agreement to end another lawsuit Diallo filed against the New York Post, said the person, who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity to discuss the private agreement. A court date is expected next week, though the day wasn t set, the person said.
Diallo, 33, and Strauss-Kahn, 63, crossed paths when she arrived to clean his luxury Manhattan hotel suite. She told police he chased her down, tried to yank down her pantyhose and forced her to perform oral sex.
The allegation seemed to let loose a spiral of accusations about the sexual conduct of Strauss-Kahn, a married diplomat and economist who had long been dubbed the great seducer. He now faces charges linking him to a suspected prostitution ring in his home country.
With DNA evidence showing a sexual encounter and Diallo providing a gripping description of an attack, the Manhattan district attorney s office initially said it had a strong and compelling case. But within colorado vacation rentals six weeks, prosecutors confidence began to ebb as they said Diallo had lied about her past — including a false account of a previous rape — and her actions after leaving Strauss-Kahn s room.
Diallo, who s from Guinea, said she told the truth about their encounter. But the district attorney s office dropped the charges in August 2011, saying prosecutors could no longer ask a jury to believe her.
Her lawsuit against the Post concerned a series of articles that called her a prostitute and said she sold sex at a hotel where the Manhattan DA s office colorado vacation rentals had housed colorado vacation rentals her during the criminal case. The News Corp. newspaper colorado vacation rentals has said it stands by its reporting; a spokeswoman declined to comment Thursday.
Strauss-Kahn initially said he had diplomatic immunity, an argument the judge turned down in May. Strauss-Kahn s lawyers had since asked McKeon to throw out part of her claim for other legal reasons. Court records show the judge had yet to rule on that and several other legal issues, and it appeared that a high-stakes step — depositions, or pretrial questioning colorado vacation rentals under oath — had not yet been taken. Depositions can give both sides information and a better picture of how strong the key parties and other witnesses might be in court.
Still, the case likely had taken a toll on both Diallo, a single mother of a teenage daughter, and Strauss-Kahn, who has found himself plagued by accusations of sexual misconduct that further tarnished his reputation. The Socialist had been seen as a potential leading candidate for the French presidency before his New York arrest.
In France, judges are to decide by Dec. 19 whether to annul charges colorado vacation rentals linking him to a suspected prostitution ring run out of a luxury hotel in Lille. He acknowledges attending libertine gatherings colorado vacation rentals but denies knowing that some women present were paid.
In August, a separate case against Strauss-Kahn, centred on allegations of rape in a Washington, D.C., hotel, was dropped colorado vacation rentals after French prosecutors said the accuser, an escort, changed colorado vacation rentals her account to say she wasn t raped.
Soon after Strauss-Kahn s arrest in New York last year, French writer Tristane Banon accused him of attempting to rape her during an interview in 2003, a claim he called imaginary and slanderous. Prosecutors said they believed the encounter qualified as a sexual assault, but the legal timeframe to pursue her complaint had elapsed.
Strauss-Kahn has separated from his wife, journalist and heiress Anne Sinclair, who stood by him through the allegations in New York. The two said they were filing a lawsuit this summer against a French magazine, citing invasion of privacy, for reporting they had split, but Sinclair colorado vacation rentals later acknowledged it was true.