WASHINGTON — Maybe he should have ordered his custom suits with stripes.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, now cooling his heels at Rikers Island, was protective enough of his reputation that he dispatched two high-priced lawyers last week to demand that a Washington tailor retract the “injurious” claim that he once made an expensive suit for the alleged sex attacker.
Marseilles-born tailor Georges de Paris, who has fashioned suits for nine US presidents, was quoted by a French magazine saying he sold the IMF boss suits costing up to $35,000.
Last Thursday, two lawyers for Strauss-Kahn visited the tailor in his tiny boutique near the White House to try to get him to sign an affidavit saying he had never met Strauss-Kahn.
Lawyer William Taylor sent de Paris a letter calling his claim “deeply injurious” to the now-accused rapist’s reputation and demanding the tailor “promptly and clearly retract the falsehoods that are attributed to you.”
De Paris refused to sign the paper that says he has “never met” Strauss-Kahn and that the IMF chief “has never purchased anything from me or my business.”