Dominique Strauss-Kahn's Wife Anne Sinclair: 'Leave Your Husband If You Want, That's Your Problem'
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Anne Sinclair, the wife of fallen International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has blasted feminists who criticised her for standing by her philandering spouse, saying: "Leave your husband if you want, that's your problem."

A poll published in September published by Elle magazine found that 54 per cent of women approved Miss Sinclair's decision to stand by Mr Strauss-Kahn during allegations of rape and despite revelations of his serial use of prostitutes.

But the same poll found that 74 per cent would have left him, if faced with the same situation.
"Well then, leave your husband if you want to want to leave him. That's your problem," she said in a long interview in Elle.

Once tipped to become the next French president, Mr Strauss-Kahn's career has been in tatters since his arrest last May over the alleged rape of a New York hotel maid. Criminal charges were dropped but a civil case is pending.

Mr Strauss-Kahn's name has also been linked to a prostitution ring operating out of a luxury hotel in Lille. He is expected to be questioned over the so-called "Hotel Carlton affair" in the coming weeks.

But his wife, a one-time star political TV journalist and millionaire heiress to an art fortune, dismissed as "unacceptable" claims that she was condoning violence towards women by offering her husband staunch moral and financial support.

"It's unacceptable because there was no violence. If there had been, the prosecutors would have pressed charges. They didn't. Violence horrifies me – verbal violence too To be a feminist is to fight that, not to meddle in the private life of other women to decide in their place what seems moral or not." "I am neither a saint, nor a victim," she added. "I am a free woman." » | Henry Samuel, Paris | Thursday, January 19, 2012