Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has reportedly reached a preliminary agreement with the hotel maid who accused him of sexual assault last year to settle a civil lawsuit she brought against him.
While a source in New York cautioned the agreement could still fall apart, French newspaper Le Monde claimed the parties had agreed on a payment of $6 million (£3.75m).
Le Monde reported that Mr Strauss-Kahn and the maid, Nafissatou Diallo, would meet a judge in New York on December 7 to sign the deal and close an affair that ended the Frenchman's International Monetary Fund career and wrecked his presidential ambitions.
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