Dominique Strauss-Kahn

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Former International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn leaves New York State Supreme court with his wife Anne Sinclair, Friday, July 1, 2011, in New York. A judge has agreed to free Strauss-Kahn without bail or home confinement in the sexual assault case against him. The criminal case against him stands. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano)

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** FILE ** In this Monday, June 6, 2011, file photo, former IMF leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn, right, appears at his arraignment on charges of sexually assaulting a Manhattan hotel maid, at State Supreme Court in New York. (AP Photo/Allan Tannenbaum, Pool, File)

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Former International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn arrives at the Manhattan Criminal Courts building on Monday for his arraignment proceedings on charges of sexually assaulting a Manhattan hotel maid. The French economist and diplomat has said he is not guilty. (Associated Press)

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New York hotel workers jeer Dominique Strauss-Kahn as he arrives at the courthouse. "New York is the wrong place to mess with a hotel worker," said Aissata Bocum, a Ramada Inn housekeeper. (Associated Press)

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Dominique Strauss-Kahn (center) walks June 6, 2011, towards the Manhattan Criminal Courts building in New York as he arrives for his arraignment proceedings. (Associated Press)

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Former International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn listens on May 19, 2011, to proceedings in his case in New York state Supreme Court. (Associated Press)

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France's Finance Minister Christine Lagarde has, in recent days, been touted in many European capitals as a good choice to replace former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn. (Associated Press)

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Former International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn listens to proceedings in his case in New York state Supreme Court on Thursday. A judge set bail at $1 million Thursday. (Associated Press)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS "To defend my husband I'm ready to fight tooth and nail," Anne Sinclair, wife of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, once said. The former French television journalist has flown to New York, where her husband is being held on charges he sexually assaulted a hotel maid.

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Dominique Strauss-Kahn, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, waits to be arraigned on Monday, May 16, 2011, in Manhattan Criminal Court for an alleged attack on a maid at a New York hotel near Times Square on Saturday. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, Pool)

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Dominique Strauss-Kahn

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, waits to be arraigned Monday in Manhattan Criminal Court on charges of rape, sex abuse and other counts after a maid at a Times Square hotel said she was attacked in his penthouse suite.

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Dominique Strauss-Kahn (second from right), managing director of the International Monetary Fund, is led from a New York police station where he was being held on Sunday, May 15, 2011, on charges of sexually assaulting a hotel maid. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn was seen as the strongest potential challenger to French President Nicolas Sarkozy until his arrest Saturday.

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** FILE ** Dominique Strauss-Kahn (right), managing director of the International Monetary Fund, arrives for a meeting with Tharman Shanmugaratnam (center), International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) chairman, and John Lipsky (left), IMF first deputy managing director, in Washington on Saturday, April 16, 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

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Former French socialist presidential candidate Segolene Royal answers reporters' questions on the arrest of IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn as she leaves the Europe1 radio station in Paris on Sunday, May 15, 2011. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

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"If you want to have more weight in the IMF, then you need to take more responsibility in the stability of the system," said IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn speaks during at a press conference at the end of the second day of the G-20 meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors at the World Bank headquarters in Washington on Saturday, April 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

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** FILE ** Dominique Strauss-Kahn, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, is shown with his wife, Anne Sinclair, a well-known television personality in France, in 2006. (AP Photo, File)