Dominique Strauss-Kahn's wife 'thriving' and enjoying freedom following sex scandal split

 
Dominique Strauss-Kahn
Peter Allen31 August 2012

The wife of Dominique Strauss-Kahn has spoken for the first time about their split, saying: “I’m free to live the way I like without being accountable to anyone.”

Anne Sinclair, 64, originally supported her husband, the former International Monetary Fund chief, as he became embroiled in a catalogue of sex scandals after being charged with trying to rape a New York hotel chambermaid in May last year.

But the multi-millionaire heiress kicked Mr Strauss-Kahn, 63, out of their Paris apartment in June.

Asked how she was coping with the shame and embarrassment caused by her husband’s very public fall, Miss Sinclair, a TV presenter, told Le Parisien newspaper she was thriving.

She said: “I look good. I’ve taken holidays, I’m working really hard again, I’m getting to the bottom of the American elections.”

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