The hotel maid who claims she was sexually assaulted by would-be French president Dominique Strauss Kahn is poised to ink a multi-million settlement Monday to end her civil suit against the randy European.
In a sign that a deal is imminent, Bronx Supreme Court Justice Douglas McKeon has ordered up an interpreter for the maid, Nafissatou Diallo, a Guinean immigrant, a court official said this weekend.
Strauss Kahn will not be there, the official said.
The settlement would bring a end to a saga that ended the career of the egotistical French politician known globally by his initials DSK.
In May, 2011, Diallo claimed Strauss-Kahn forced her to perform oral sex when he was a guest at the midtown Sofitel Hotel where she worked.
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance eventually dropped the criminal case, citing inconsistencies in Diallo’s statements, so she sued Strauss Kahn in civil court.
In May, Strauss Kahn countersued, accusing Diallo, 33, of ruining his reputation with a claim that sent him falling from his post as head of the International Monetary Fund poised to become the president of France.
Last week, lawyers reached the broad outlines of a deal, sources said, though Strauss Kahn’s team denied a published report that he would shell out $6 million.
A court spokesman said the Post case was settled after McKeon incorporated that lawsuit into the settlement discussions between Diallo and DSK.
"The judge had the lawyers for the parties (Diallo and DSK) in his chambers trying to discuss a settlement. It only made sense for the sake of judicial economy to settle all of the related cases at one time," said the spokesman, David Bookstaver.
The terms of the settlement are unclear because the parties have signed a confidentiality agreement, Bookstaver said.
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