The next hearing in the civil suit filed against Dominique Strauss-Kahn by a Manhattan hotel maid will take place June 11, according to listings from the Bronx County courthouse.
Judge Douglas E. McKeon on May 1 rejected the disgraced International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief’s claim of diplomatic immunity, describing the attempt to have the case thrown out as a “Hail Mary” pass.
The Frenchman tried to claim the protection in the civil case filed against him last August by hotel maid Nafissatou Diallo, who claims he sexually assaulted her in a “violent and sadistic attack” in the Sofitel hotel in Midtown nearly one year ago.
Strauss-Kahn earlier this month filed a $1 million countersuit against Diallo.
Criminal charges in the incident were dropped against Strauss-Kahn, but not before he resigned from his post as chief of the IMF.
Strauss-Kahn, once seen as a frontrunner for the French presidency, remains mired in legal problems more than a year after his fall from grace.
French prosecutors opened a preliminary investigation Monday into accusations Strauss-Kahn took part in a gang rape in Washington, D.C.