First the Greeks, now a maid in NYC. Via the New York Post...
The IMF chief who allegedly sodomized a Manhattan hotel maid proved the height of pompous arrogance yesterday, throwing a fit over a battle on his bail -- which left him parked on a wooden bench in an East Harlem station house the whole day, sources said.
Leading French presidential contender and accused sex attacker Dominique Strauss-Kahn, 63, was finally led out of the NYPD's Special Victims Unit at around 11 p.m. in handcuffs, scowling and red-faced.
Sporting a long navy-blue coat and an open collar, he refused to acknowledge reporters as he was placed in the back of a police car and whisked off to Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn.
Sources said he was taken out of the police station house only after finally agreeing to a medical exam -- and only after cops had moved to obtain a warrant to gather potential DNA evidence.
Clues they're looking for include possible DNA from his alleged victim that might be found in scratches on his body.
He had been set for arraignment last night, but one of his lawyers, Bill Taylor, at a hastily called press conference outside Manhattan Criminal Court, said:
"Our client willingly consented to a scientific and forensic examination . . . at the request of the government. It's being done. In light of the hour, we've agreed to postpone the arraignment until [this morning], and we expect to be in court with him."
Asked how Strauss-Kahn was doing, Taylor replied, "He's tired, but he's fine."
Strauss-Kahn, 63, is accused of sexually assaulting and attempting to rape a maid at the Sofitel hotel near Times Square Saturday afternoon as she tried to clean his room.
Another one of his high-powered lawyers, Ben Brafman, said Strauss-Kahn "intends to vigorously defend these charges, and he denies any wrongdoing."
Earlier in the day, Strauss-Kahn was outraged that he wasn't getting the VIP treatment he's accustomed to as the jet-setting head of the International Monetary Fund and darling of the French left, a police source told The Post.
Cops "are not thrilled by the French idiot, or his attorney," Brafman, the source said.
Strauss-Kahn, one of the world's wealthiest and most powerful moneymen, had been forced to cool his heels in the lockup of the NYPD's Special Victims Unit in East Harlem as Brafman and celebrity bondsman Ira Judelson faced off with the Manhattan DA's Office over a bail package, sources said.
