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Nafissatou Diallo |
The DSK maid's bizarre media blitz has brought the case to the edge of ruin.
Furious DA sources yesterday told The Post that if there had been any doubt that hotel housekeeper Nafissatou Diallo would be destroyed on the stand with her already-wildly varying accounts of what happened between her and Dominique Strauss-Kahn, there is no more -- after she doled out even more conflicting statements during a round of interviews to ABC and Newsweek on Monday. "There's so many inconsistencies now it's incredible," said one source, noting the slew of conflicting tales Diallo has allegedly told hospital staffers, cops, prosecutors, a grand jury and now the two media outlets. "It's like multiple choice -- pick a version."
For one, the DA sources said, the maid apparently suddenly and miraculously regained her memory of a conversation she said she had with Strauss-Kahn after he emerged naked from the bathroom in his Sofitel hotel suite -- after telling a hospital worker that he said nothing to her as he tried to rape her. "I saw this little man come to me. He come naked," the 5-foot-10 woman told ABC News.
She told Newsweek that she exclaimed to him, "Oh, my God. I'm so sorry."
She claimed he responded, "You don't have to be sorry," as he reached for her breasts. "You're beautiful," she said he told her as he steered her toward the bathroom.
She said she told him to stop: "I don't want to lose my job."
He answered, "You're not going to lose your job," according to the account she delivered to her media interviewers.
But just hours after the attack, she told a hospital counselor that Strauss-Kahn -- then a French presidential hopeful -- did not speak, The New York Times reported on July 5.
Sources told The Post that there are "many" other discrepancies between her official accounts and the versions she's now telling the media -- all of which have essentially doomed her case.
"It's a mess," one flabbergasted source said.
Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance Jr. already had been weighing whether to drop the case against DSK, and now -- with the maid's new accounts handing DSK's lawyers powerful weapons to use in a cross-examination of her -- it's clear any prosecution of the former head of the International Monetary Fund would be a disaster, sources said. Read more:
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