A year after the scandal broke out, the former socialist presidential frontrunner accused the maid, Nafissatou Diallo, of "knowingly and intentionally making a false report to law-enforcement authorities" that cost him his job, New York Post reported.
Strauss-Khan claimed that the "malicious and wanton false allegation" damaged his reputation worldwide and caused him to lose "other professional opportunities".
The countersuit filed in the Bronx Supreme Court, however, did not specify the job prospects that he lost.
But elsewhere in court papers, he said "that he 'was considered by some to become the next president of France.'" Socialist Fran