Another tale of the Great Seducer and my tip for the woman to succeed him
When I was young I knew a man whose opening gambit with any pretty girl was, ‘Hello, shall we go straight to bed?’ He reckoned one in 20 said yes, so if he asked the question 20 times a day, he would never be lonely. All accounts of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the IMF chief and would-be French presidential candidate who has been charged with sexually assaulting a New York hotel chambermaid, suggest a similar approach.
In the late 1990s — during the tenure of ‘DSK’ as France’s minister of finance and not long after his third marriage — an attractive female journalist of my acquaintance was sent to interview him at the French embassy in London. She left a card with her contact details, and as she left the building her mobile phone rang. It was DSK, suggesting they get together somewhere more private.
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