"Hot Rabbit" Dominique Strauss-Kahn has hopped out of the pan and into the fire as a French novelist now plans to hit him with a criminal complaint alleging attempted rape.
A lawyer for writer Tristane Banon said the complaint would be filed on Tuesday, accusing the randy French honcho of trying to force himself upon her in 2002 like "a chimpanzee in rut."
In response, lawyers for Strauss-Kahn said they would file a slander complaint against Banon.
His lawyers insisted in a statement that their client "has always said that the incident described by Ms. Banon since 2007 is imaginary."
Banon's formal complaint comes as the sex assault case against Strauss-Kahn in New York teeters on the brink of collapse.
Banon had come forward publicly for the first time following the alleged May 14 attack on a chambermaid at the Sofitel in Manhattan.
She had said she had kept quiet about the 2002 episode, where Strauss-Kahn tore at her bra and tried to unbutton her jeans, upon the advice of her mother - who was close to Kahn through political circles.
Strauss-Kahn - who has been dubbed the "Hot Rabbit" and "Great Seducer" - resigned as head of the International Monetary Fund following his May 14 arrest.
The embarrassing arrest also upended his position as front-runner in France's presidential election next year.
Polls over the weekend showed that France is split on whether Strauss-Kahn should return to public life following the near collapse of the case against him in New York.
A judge lifted Strauss-Kahn's house arrest Friday after it was revealed that his accuser had lied on her immigration application and had ties to shady drug dealers.
Prosecutors have not dropped the charges against him, but their case appears badly shaken.
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