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Nafissatou Diallo, the hotel maid who accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the ex-IMF chief and onetime French presidential hopeful, of sexually assaulting her, leaves the Bronx Supreme Court in New York, December 10, 2012. Strauss-Kahn on Monday struck a confidential deal to settle a civil suit brought by a New York hotel maid who had accused him of sexual assault, a judge said. AFP PHOTO/Emmanuel DUNAND