Personal Life
Strauss-Kahn has four daughters, one by his second wife, Brigitte Guillemette, whom he married in 1984. He has been married to his third wife, French journalist Anne Sinclair, since 1991. Sinclair is the heiress to part of the fortune of her maternal grandfather, Paul Rosenberg. The couple have a house in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., two apartments in Paris, and a riad in Marrakesh, Morocco. He is an accomplished chess player, and he enjoys practising either chess or math problems for hours every day. Strauss-Kahn is also known to have attended sex parties where prostitutes were paid to indulge in sexual activities, although Strauss-Kahn claims to have not known of this.
On 31 August 2012, Strauss-Kahn agreed in a newspaper interview that he and wife Anne Sinclair have separated.
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