Lawyers for Piroska Nagy, who had a brief affair with Dominique Strauss-Kahn while she was an economist at the International Monetary Fund, have written to Mr Strauss-Kahn’s attorney challenging his portrayal of the relationship.
Her lawyer wrote to William Taylor, an attorney for Mr Strauss-Kahn, warning that he should not repeat an incorrect “insinuation” that she in some way pursued Mr Strauss-Kahn, according to a friend of Ms Nagy.
The friend said that the economist was unhappy about reported comments by Mr Taylor in which he said that the IMF board’s investigation of the affair in 2008 had determined it was “completely consensual”, and referred to the IMF’s review of “numerous e-mails she sent to him”.