Spectacular-Fall-From-Grace Week was in high gear inManhattan Criminal Courton Thursday, when a court officer admonished the chattering classes to zip it.
"Okay, people!"he said."Keep it down to a dull roar!"
Cops were about to bring in one of the most powerful men in the world,Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who was a front-runner for the French presidency until this week when, prosecutors say, he failed to zip something else and attacked a hotel maid.
Think a hornyWarren Buffett/Hillary Clintonhybrid.
Strauss-Kahn's rich wife,Anne Sinclair, was theDiane SawyerofFrancebefore she gave up her career to further her oversexed hubby's political ambitions.
Wait a minute, do I have the right story - is thisMaria ShriverandArnold Schwarzenegger?
No, that was the other plummet fromMount Olympusthis week: A couple who had everything: money, power, looks, happiness - and a horny guy with a deep, dark secret.
"She looks a wreck,"said one courtroom observer of Sinclair, there to find out ifJudge Michael Obuswould let her husband live with her in an apartment she's rented in the city, rather than stay inRikers Island.
See, they don't have hors d'ouevres there. Definitely no fois gras. At Rikers, it's ...how do you say"yucky"in French?
The bail amount offered by the defense - $1 million - is said to be Sinclair's cash. Strauss-Kahn claims to have a net worth of only $2 million.
Could I get the name of his accountant please?
Sinclair's got plenty more where that came from: She is the sole heir of her grandfatherPaul Rosenberg, one of the first art dealers to discoverPicasso.
This week, Sinclair defended her husband against charges of a sexual attack made by a hotel maid, a hardworkingBronxwidow and mother who is ironically from a French colony.
"He will be found innocent,"Sinclair said after Saturday's incident.
She didn't change her statement to her fellow journalists yesterday.
Sinclair has defended Strauss-Kahn before, when a staffer at theInternational Monetary Fundclaimed he sexually harassed her. This week, the goddaughter of his second wife said he'd done the same to her.
Maria Shriver also stood by her man when six women came forward during Schwarzenegger's gubernatorial campaign to claim he groped them.
I guess Shriver thought all those disparate women were hallucinating. We're not sure what Sinclair really thinks of her husband'sNew Yorkaccuser, a devout Muslim, and why she would make up such a claim.
As Strauss-Kahn heard in the American courtroom, there's a presumption of innocence in this country.
Key forensic test results are not back yet, and an American jury has yet to hear the case.
Despite standing in a courtroom on the 13th floor, Thursday was Strauss-Kahn's lucky day.
Obus decreed Strauss-Kahn could get out of Rikers today to live under house arrest, watched 2-4/7 by private armed guards and videocams.
An even bigger worry will be the public eye in what is sure to be a media circus that will dwarf theO.J. Simpsonmurder case.
"It's not like this in France,"a French diplomat sniffed.
"The initial investigations of cases are all done privately, with just the judge and the lawyers."
Welcome toAmerica, pal.
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