Married for twelve years to Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Anne Sinclair had told in the pages of Elle magazine how she one day agreed to see reality in the case of sexual assault that had gone around the world.
She initially defended him tooth and nail. In 2011, the DSK affair had worldwide repercussions. The former head of the IMF is accused of sexual assault in New York, by a cleaning lady at the Sofitel in Manhattan. At that time, they had been married for twelve years. In the pages of the magazine She, Anne Sinclairwho defended DSK relentlessly during the controversy, had told how she one day opened her eyes. “I was in denial because I was in confidence, she declared to the monthly on the occasion of the publication of her book Perfect tense published by Grasset.
“When I discovered the stories of Lille, I thought to myself that’s how it goes. Stop. The Sofitel was something else in its excess: the whole world spying on us, me having to hide under a blanket in the back seat of a car to go see my granddaughter who had just been born. It was all blurry.”
A dependency on DSK
In 2013, Anne Sinclair and DSK divorce. When the affair broke out, the journalist from the Huffington Post was however at his side. “I do not believe for a single second in the accusations that are brought against my husband. I have no doubt that his innocence has been established”had declared Anne Sinclair from Sunday, despite the humiliation, before joining New York to support her husband. A survey conducted by Harris Interactive for VSD in 2011 revealed that 54% of French people said they understood the attitude adopted by Anne Sinclair during this court case.
How Anne Sinclair does she explain her attitude? The one who rebuilt her life with Nora Stone evokes his “dread of disagreement”. “It may be due to him, but perhaps also to me, I reproduced the pattern of dependence that linked me to my mother. (…) I was with him in the fear of disagreement and fear to displease him. So, was it control, I don’t know, but in any case, submission and acceptance.” Ten years after the facts, she breaks the taboo.
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Dominique Strauss Kahn and Anne Sinclair
In 2011, the sexual assault case broke. Anne Sinclair supports DSK.
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DSK and Anne Sinclair
In August 2012, Anne Sinclair declared to be separated from Dominique Strauss-Kahn, from whom she divorced in March 2013
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Anne Sinclair and Pierre Nora
Anne Sinclair and her companion Pierre Nora, with whom she got together after her divorce from DSK, at L’Espace des femmes rue Jacob in Paris, September 21, 2017
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Dominique Strauss Kahn and Anne Sinclair
Ten years after the DSK affair, Anne Sinclair breaks her silence with the release of a book “Past compound”.
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Anne Sinclair and Ivan Levai
Anne Sinclair, here in 1985, left journalist Ivan Levai for Dominique Strauss Kahn
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Anne Sinclair and Ivan Levai
Together, they have two children: David and Elie
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Anne Sinclair in the streets of Paris, February 11, 2016.
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Anne Sinclair
Anne Sinclair is a journalist at the Huffington Post
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Anne Sinclair at the recording of the show Rembob’Ina with Anne Sinclair on October 8, 2019.
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Dominique Strauss Kahn
Dominique Strauss Kahn at the funeral of Antoine Veil at the Montparnasse cemetery in Paris, April 15, 2013