In this April 15, 2011, photo, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, center, walks to a meeting of the G-20 finance ministers and central bank governors at the 2011 Spring Meetings of the IMF and World Bank in Washington. (AP)
PARIS- Lawyers for Dominique Strauss-Kahn have refuted the Paris prosecutor's affirmation that the former head of the International Monetary Fund sexually assaulted a young French writer.
Attorneys Frederique Beaulieu and Henri Leclerc dismissed allegations by writer Tristane Banon that Strauss-Kahn tried to rape her during a 2003 interview as "lying accusations."
In a statement Friday, the lawyers insisted Strauss-Kahn "didn't hide anything about the exact nature of his relations" with Banon.
The statement comes a day after the Paris prosecutor's office said it has dropped an investigation into Banon's attempted rape claims but added that Strauss-Kahn admitted during questioning to actions amounting to sexual assault.
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