| Dominique Strauss-Kahn facing new 'gang rape' allegation May 21st 2012, 15:25   Strauss-Kahn talks to reporters after a New York court appearance, Aug. 23, 2011. (David Karp/AP)
Dominique Strauss-Kahn is facing a new rape allegation stemming from a 2010 "sex party" in a Washington, D.C. hotel--part of a widening probe into the former International Monetary Fund chief's alleged role in a prostitution ring, French prosecutors said Monday. Police are opening a preliminary inquiry into a suspected "gang rape" that took place in Washington in December 2010. Investigators "have reason to believe ... that there is suspicion of gang rape," the prosecutor's office said in a statement. According to France's Liberation newspaper, two female "escorts" interviewed by Belgian police in Lille say they accompanied two of Strauss-Kahn's associates on a trip to Washington. The group stayed at the W Hotel, where one of the women told police Strauss-Kahn raped her. "I didn't scream but I said clearly and out loud that I didn't want to," she said in her deposition, according to the paper. Lawyers for Strauss-Kahn quickly denied the latest allegation. "I don't see the coherence of opening preliminary investigations for gang rape when the person concerned, who was questioned at length, did not file a complaint for rape," Richard Malka, one of Strauss-Kahn's lawyers, told Agence France-Press. It's the latest sex scandal to sting the former IMF head and one-time presidential hopeful. Strauss-Kahn, 63, is already under investigation for his involvement in the prostitution ring, or what prosecutors described in March as "aggravated pimping." He denied those allegations, too. "[Our client] absolutely contests having committed the slightest act of violence of any nature whatsoever," his laywers said in a statement earlier this month. In 2011, Strauss-Kahn was accused sexually-assaulting a maid in a New York hotel. The criminal charges were dropped, but the maid, Nafissatou Diallo, launched a civil suit against him. Strauss-Kahn filed a $1 million countersuit against Diallo for defamation. Shortly after the New York maid incident, French writer Tristane Banon filed a complaint against Strauss-Kahn for allegedly raping her in 2003. The charges were eventually dropped. More popular Yahoo! News stories: • Lockerbie bomber dies in Libya hospital • Cory Booker slams Obama campaign ad attacking Romney's Bain Capital record • Former VP Al Gore has a girlfriend 
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