BELGIUM: A sex club named after former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn opens on the Belgian-French border

Record ID: 335622

  • Title: BELGIUM: A sex club named after former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn opens on the Belgian-French border
  • Date: 30th April 2014
  • Summary: BLATON, BELGIUM (APRIL 30, 2014) (REUTERS) CHURCH IN CENTRE OF BLATON HOUSES IN BLATON HOUSE AND EXTERIOR OF SEX CLUB SATELLITE CARS PARKED OUTSIDE SEX CLUB SEX CLUB WITH MEDIA IN FRONT ENTRANCE TO SEX CLUB WITH BANNERS OF DANCER, READING: "DSKLUB TABLE DANCE" OWNER OF DSKLUB, DOMINIQUE ALDERWEIRELD, POSING OUTSIDE SEX CLUB WITH TWO DANCERS PICTURE OF FORMER IMF CHIEF DOMI
  • Embargoed: 15th May 2014 13:00
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  • Location: Belgium
  • Country: Belgium
  • Topics: Industry
  • Reuters ID: LVABD1SIU189ZB1KCNKGB7EJHHYI
  • Story Text: A sex club named after former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn opened on Wednesday (30 April) on the Belgian-French border.
    The "DSKlub" will employ six women and a transsexual, according to Belgian media, and is the invention of Dominique Alderweireld, generally known as "Dodo La Saumure", a play on words on the slang for a pimp.
    Few people came for the opening of the club, located in the small town of Blaton, but under the dim lights indoors, women were seen pole-dancing and Alderweireld toasted the launch of his new establishment with bottles of champagne.
    Alderweireld, who spent nearly three-and-a-half months in prison for allegedly providing prostitutes to Strauss-Kahn, claimed that his opening of the club was motivated by revenge.

    "I was a victim of the Dominique Straus-Kahn story. I went to prison thanks to the matter of the escorts. I therefore want my revenge for this story with the opening of this new club," he said.
    However, Alderweireld insisted that the club's name was not meant as a reference to Strauss-Kahn, with the initials standing for "Dodo Sex Klub".

    "Why the name? Why the name, because it means 'Dodo Sex Klub' in Flemish and well, I think it was a good social reason for opening this club," he said.
    A statement by Strauss-Kahn's Belgian lawyer said "he has announced he will take all judicial measures necessary to end the damage to his name which results from this".
    Strauss-Kahn, commonly referred to as DSK, is a former French finance minister and was seen as a strong contender for France's 2012 presidential election until a sexual assault case in New York in 2011, which was later dropped, brought his ambitions to a halt.
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