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DSK Maid Tells All

Gives first interview to Newsweek.

What happened in room 2806 between Dominique Strauss-Kahn and a hotel maid? In her first interview, the maid, Nafissatou Diallo, tells Newsweek her side of the story. Strauss-Kahn was like “a crazy man to me,” says Diallo. She says he pushed her to the bed, then pursued her across the room, grabbed her crotch violently, and pushed her to her knees. “He held my head so hard here. He was moving and making a noise.” Diallo says she did not learn who Strauss-Kahn was until the next morning, when she saw reports of the incident on the news. “I want him to go to jail,” she says now. “I want him to know there are some places you cannot use your power, you cannot use your money.”