Shocker (not): DSK had sex with some of the prostitutes. He's no longer running for office in France. The public dissection of his preference for multiple partners should end -- especially by our media. It's none of our business.

Prostitution is legal in France. Profiting from prostitution (supplying them to others) is not. The police want to know whether he was "complicit" in the acts of the businessmen who supplied the prostitutes or knew the businessmen were using corporate funds to pay the prostitutes. He has denied both. The businessmen, David Roquet and Fabrice Paszkowski, back him up. One told the police:

“It is not the done thing at these kinds of sex parties to tell everyone that some of the women were being paid.”

Their lawyers deny any deals were made. The moralistic U.S. media is grabbing onto a quote by DSK's lawyer to a radio station:

DSK claims he had no idea the women were prostitutes. In an interview with a French radio station, his lawyer, Henri Leclerc maintained that his client, “could easily not have known, because as you can imagine, at these kinds of parties you’re not always dressed, and I challenge you to distinguish a naked prostitute from any other naked woman.”

I wonder why the media doesn't pick up the quote of one of the businessm