DOMINIQUE Strauss-Kahn, the disgraced former IMF chief, has agreed to pay $US6 million ($5.7 million) to settle a lawsuit brought by a Manhattan maid who accused him of sexual assault, reports say.
France's Le Monde newspaper reports in its Saturday edition that the former frontrunner for the French presidency has told friends that he has agreed to pay hotel maid Nafissatou Diallo that amount in order to end an 18-month legal saga.
The Le Monde article followed a report in The New York Times that Mr Strauss-Kahn, 63, and Ms Diallo had "quietly reached an agreement to settle".
According to Le Monde, Mr Strauss-Kahn will raise the money by borrowing $US3 million from a bank and the rest from his estranged wife, Anne Sinclair, a former newsreader who inherited a fortune from her art dealer father.
Judge Douglas McKeon, who is presiding over the civil case, told AFP "there may be a court session as early as next week", but declined to comment on the reports of a settlement.
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