He took me with the vulgarity of a soldier ...says the MOTHER of girl Strauss-Khan is accused of molesting 
 
 
 
 'He took me with the vulgarity of a soldier', says former colleague Anne Mansouret 
 
 Three years later her daughter Tristane Banon claims he tried to rape her like 'rutting chimpanzee' 
 
 Was delay in coming forward down to her mother's relationship with the 'Great Seducer'? 
 
 
 
 Dominique Strauss-Kahn slept with the mother of a woman who claims the former IMF boss tried to rape her, it emerged yesterday. 
 
 Anne Mansouret admitted that she had sex with Mr Strauss-Kahn in 2000, saying her fellow socialist ‘took me with the vulgarity of a soldier’ while they were both supposed to be working. 
 
 Miss Mansouret, 65, is the mother of 32-year-old writer Tristane Banon, who has alleged that Strauss-Kahn assaulted her in 2003 as she tried to interview him. 
 
 'Tryst': Dominique Strauss-Kahn 'had brutal sex' with former colleague Anne Mansouret, the mother of attempted-rape claimant Tristane Banon 
 
 The latest revelation in one of the most squalid cases in French political history emerged in the country’s press. 
 
 The alleged sexual encounter happened in the offices of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, where Strauss-Kahn, now 64, was working as a special adviser. 
 
 Miss Mansouret’s claims were made to police last week when she was interviewed as a witness in her daughter’s allegations of attempted rape against Strauss-Kahn. 
 
 'Rutting chimpanzee': Tristane Banon claims Strauss-Kahn tried to rape her 
 
 She is said to have told officers that she and Strauss-Kahn had ‘consensual but brutal’ sex. 
 
 Miss Mansouret, a radical feminist with three marriages and scores of lovers in her past, has admitted that she was happy to have sex with a man known in France as the ‘Great Seducer’. 
 
 However, she admitted, she ‘never wanted to repeat the experience’. 
 
 She told police: ‘He doesn’t try to please women, but simply to possess them.’ 
 
 Miss Mansouret, a socialist party regional official, is said to have kept the encounter secret until her daughter told her in February 2003 that Strauss-Kahn had tried to rape her when she went to interview him for a book she was writing. 
 
 Miss Mansouret said she was so ‘incensed’ that she went to see Strauss-Kahn’s former wife Brigitte Guillemette, who later challenged him over the attack. 
 
 Strauss-Kahn is then said to have admitted: ‘I don’t know what came over me. I slept with the mother, I lost it when I saw the daughter.’ 
 
 According to Miss Mansouret, Strauss-Kahn then met her for a glass of wine in a bistro, and he apologised for trying to attack her daughter. 
 
 Attempted rape carries a sentence of up to 15 years in France – more if there are aggravating circumstances such as the use of violence. In a 2007 TV programme which is still accessible on the internet, Miss Banon gives a graphic account of the alleged attack in which she compared Strauss-Kahn to a ‘rutting chimpanzee’ and claimed he tried to unfasten her clothes. 
 
 She said that she was dissuaded from filing charges at the time by her mother, who is still a regional councillor in Strauss-Kahn’s Socialist party. 
 
 The violent but consensual sex between her mother and Strauss-Kahn is now being put forward as the reason why Miss Banon took eight years to go to the police about the alleged attack on her, claimed L’Express magazine. It also emerged yesterday that Strauss-Kahn’s daughter Camille has been questioned by police over the alleged attempted rape of Miss Banon. 
 
 The 26-year-old student, who is a friend of Miss Banon’s, was questioned on Monday. 
 
 Arrested: Strauss-Kahn appeared in court earlier this year after a maid at a hotel in New York claimed that she had been sexually-assaulted by him 
 
 In response to Miss Banon’s claims, Strauss-Kahn has denied the attack and begun legal action against her for libel. 
 
 His Paris lawyer Henri Leclerc said: ‘Her claims are imaginary. It never happened.’ 
 
 Strauss-Kahn, the disgraced former head of the International Monetary Fund and once a possible presidential candidate in France, is currently awaiting trial in New York, accused of raping a hotel maid. 
 
 That case has been adjourned until next month and looks likely to be dropped because of his victim’s alleged links with criminals. 
 
 But Strauss-Kahn faces an investigation for the attempted rape of Miss Banon as soon as he returns home to France. 
 
 All of the women involved in the French allegations are well known to Anne Sinclair, Strauss-Kahn’s current wife who, despite his non-stop philandering, is standing by him. 
 
 The French Socialist Party has been torn apart by the latest revelations, but some senior figures are still arguing that Strauss-Kahn should be allowed to run for president next year against Nicolas Sarkozy. 
 
 In another dramatic development yesterday it emerged that Francois Hollande, the current frontrunner to stand as Socialist presidential candidate next year, is set to be questioned by police about allegations that he knew about the alleged attempted rape of Miss Banon as far back as 2003, but did nothing about it. ||||| A court hearing for the sexual-assault case against former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been delayed two weeks, until Aug. 1. 
 
 The Manhattan District Attorney's office and attorneys for Mr. Strauss-Kahn filed a letter with the Office of Court Administration on Monday saying both sides had agreed to the delay "to facilitate both parties continued investigation in this matter," the letter said. A court hearing had been scheduled for July 18. 
 
 Mr. Strauss-Kahn has pleaded not guilty to charges that he sexually assaulted a maid at the Sofitel hotel in Manhattan in May. Prosecutors have raised questions about the credibility of the maid who has admitted lying to authorities about a range of matters, according to a court filing. 
 
 "We hope that during this time the district attorney will make the necessary decision to dismiss the case against Mr. Strauss-Kahn," said William W. Taylor, a lawyer for Mr. Strauss-Kahn. 
 
 Erin Duggan, a spokeswoman for the district attorney's office, said the investigation is continuing and no decisions have been made about how to proceed in the case. 
 
 "At the end of its investigation, we expect the district attorney's office to stand by the victim and take her case to trial," said Kenneth Thompson, an attorney for the accuser. "Justice requires no less." 
 
 Meanwhile, a French lawyer for Mr. Strauss-Kahn said he had filed a complaint for slander against the French novelist who has accused Mr. Strauss-Kahn of attempted rape. The complaint was filed with Paris prosecutors on Friday, Henri Leclerc, the lawyer, said. 
 
 A lawyer for Tristane Banon, the novelist couldn't be reached to comment on the slander complaint. 
 
 Ms. Banon was interviewed by police on Monday as part of a preliminary probe Paris prosecutors launched into the attempted rape complaint the 32-year old woman has filed against Mr. Strauss-Kahn. 
 
 —David Gauthier-Villars contributed to this article. 
 
 Write to Dionne Searcey at dionne.searcey@wsj.com ||||| Paris (CNN) -- A French writer filed a criminal complaint Tuesday against embattled former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, alleging attempted rape, according to her attorney David Koubbi. 
 
 Tristane Banon, 32, filed the new claim just as a separate New York case against the French financier appeared to be on shaky ground. 
 
 A Strauss-Kahn lawyer in France said he had filed a counterclaim against Banon for "false declarations." 
 
 French prosecutors are expected to review the complaint and determine whether there is enough evidence to press charges. 
 
 Though the alleged attack occurred in 2003, the statute of limitations on attempted rape is 10 years. 
 
 In an interview with the French news-magazine L'Express, Banon said she decided to act because she was fed up with being labelled a liar, having not previously filed a criminal complaint. 
 
 Banon said Strauss-Kahn's alleged assault had been widely discussed in light of the charges he faces in New York and she now had a chance to tell her own story and be listened to. 
 
 "If I want one day to put an end to this hell of the past eight years, it has to go to court," she told the magazine. 
 
 Asked about the delay in coming forward to report the attempted rape, Banon said it was difficult for all women in this situation. She added that she had been reluctant to go over and over the details, when all she wanted to do was forget about it. 
 
 It was even harder to face that prospect when the she knew that the attempt would likely fail, she told L'Express, because no-one would believe the word of a young writer over a powerful figure like Strauss-Kahn. 
 
 Asked if she had concerns about repercussions for bringing the complaint now, Banon told L'Express she feared reprisals because she was a thorn in the side of the former IMF chief 
 
 On Tuesday, her attorney told CNN that the alleged attack had taken place with "extreme violence." 
 
 The new legal fireworks came after questions arose about the truthfulness of a housekeeper who alleged that Strauss-Kahn, 62, attacked her in his New York hotel suite in May. 
 
 Banon said the decision to file the complaint had been taken with her lawyer in mid-June and had not been affected by the sudden crumbling of the case against Strauss-Kahn in New York, according to her interview with L'Express. 
 
 One of Strauss-Kahn's lawyers in New York, Benjamin Brafman, on Monday declined to comment on the allegations in France. 
 
 Banon's mother, Socialist politician Anne Mansouret, said shortly after the housekeeper's accusations were splashed across front pages around the world that her daughter had been attacked by Strauss-Kahn in 2003 but that she had discouraged her at the time from filing charges against him. 
 
 Mansouret, a member of parliament, said she cautioned Banon not to file a police report at the time for fear it would hurt her journalism career. 
 
 On Tuesday, she said she had not realized before how much her daughter was affected by the alleged incident. 
 
 "At the time, I never thought that it had traumatized her to such a point," she told CNN affiliate network BFM. 
 
 Banon "expects to be destroyed" after filing the complaint against Strauss-Kahn, her mother added. 
 
 But she must "find the combative instinct that is needed to withstand the shock and say to herself, 'OK, I must do this and I will carry it out,'" Mansouret said. 
 
 Strauss-Kahn was never charged in connection with the alleged attack on Banon. 
 
 But in light of the charges against Strauss-Kahn after the alleged incident at a Sofitel hotel in New York, Koubbi said a few weeks ago that he and Banon had considered filing a complaint. 
 
 Koubbi said the cases were not connected. 
 
 "I don't see any reason why these two cases should be joined, because either the prosecutor has enough elements to condemn Dominique Strauss-Kahn in the United States -- and if he does, he should do it -- or he needs to bring two cases together to get a conviction," he said in June. 
 
 "In that case, we do not want to participate," he added. 
 
 Strauss-Kahn's attorney in France, Leon Lef Forster, did not respond to requests for comment on the allegations in May. 
 
 Mansouret recently pulled out of the Socialist Party presidential primaries. Strauss-Kahn had been a front-runner for the party nomination until the New York arrest, and suggestions that the case was floundering have revived talk of his chances in next year's presidential elections. 
 
 Mansouret described herself last week as "the woman who embarrasses the Socialist Party." 
 
 "I am ... a sort of collateral damage in the DSK affair. I knew for a long time that my political career was sealed with this bomb, but I didn't imagine that this bitter past could be revived so violently," she wrote Friday on the Rue89 website, referring to the alleged attack in New York. 
 
 In May, Mansouret said that in 2003, her journalist daughter had interviewed Strauss-Kahn in his office in the National Assembly. 
 
 However, after the interview, Banon received a text message from Strauss-Kahn, saying he was not happy with the interview and asking if he could speak with her again, Mansouret said. 
 
 After Banon arrived at the address Strauss-Kahn had sent her, he locked the door to the room they were in, took her hand and grabbed her arm, according to Mansouret. 
 
 Banon told him to let her go, and the incident ended with the two struggling on the floor, Mansouret said. Banon managed to escape the apartment and locked herself in her car, where she called her mother. 
 
 Mansouret said she arrived about an hour and a half later to find her daughter still locked in the car and looking "roughed up." The heel of one shoe was broken, Mansouret recalled. 
 
 But Mansouret told her daughter not to file a complaint out of concern that she would become known as Strauss-Kahn's victim. 
 
 CNN does not typically identify sexual assault victims, but Mansouret said her daughter gave permission for her name to be disclosed. 
 
 In New York, the prosecution's case against Strauss-Kahn has been shaken in recent days after sources revealed that the housekeeper at the Sofitel hotel had been less than truthful with investigators. Within two days after the alleged attack occurred, she spoke by phone with a boyfriend in an Arizona jail in a recorded conversation. 
 
 A source with knowledge of the investigation told CNN that the housekeeper said "she's fine and this person is rich and there's money to be made," as originally reported by The New York Times. 
 
 The 32-year-old immigrant has admitted to prosecutors that she lied about her whereabouts following the alleged attack, the details of an asylum application and information she put on tax forms, according to documents filed in court Friday by prosecutors. 
 
 Prosecutors said Friday that the woman also admitted to lying about being a victim of a gang rape. 
 
 In angry remarks delivered outside the courthouse, the woman's attorney, Kenneth Thompson, acknowledged problems with his client's credibility. But the bottom line, he said, is that she was attacked. 
 
 "That was true the day it happened, and it is true today," Thompson said. 
 
 "She has described that sexual assault many times to the prosecutors and to me. And she has never once changed a single thing about that account." 
 
 On Tuesday, the attorney for the alleged victim's announced that she had filed a libel lawsuit against the New York Post and five of its reporters, after the newspaper reported that the woman was a prostitute. 
 
 The woman has accused the newspaper of publishing articles with false and defamatory information in the effort to bolster sales. 
 
 A spokeswoman for the New York Post, Suzi Halpin, responded to the lawsuit Tuesday, saying "we stand by our reporting." 
 
 Meanwhile, the indictment and charges against Strauss-Kahn -- including criminal sexual acts and sexual abuse -- still stand. And though he is now free to travel in the United States, a judge said authorities have continued to withhold the French financier's passport. 
 
 After the charges were filed against him in New York, Strauss-Kahn resigned as director of the International Monetary Fund. 
 
 CNN's Jim Bittermann, Susan Candiotti, Saskya Vandoorne and Dheepthi Namasivayam contributed to this report.
– Legal troubles for accused sex attacker Dominique Strauss-Kahn may be just beginning. French police are questioning the writer in France who is suing Strauss-Kahn for attempted rape. The interview will help investigators determine if there's enough evidence to go ahead with a full-scale French criminal case against the former head of the IMF for the alleged attack on Tristane Banon, reports EuroNews. Stateside, a hearing for his sexual-assault case has been delayed two weeks, from July 18 to Aug. 1, reports the Wall Street Journal. In a letter filed yesterday, Strauss-Kahn's lawyers and the DA's office explained that they had agreed to the delay "to facilitate both parties' continued investigation in this matter."