By Ross Buettner, New York Times, Dec. 10/11, 2012

The former French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn and the hotel housekeeper who accused him of sexually assaulting her last year have agreed to settle her lawsuit stemming from their encounter, a judge said on Monday.

The settlement, the terms of which were not disclosed, was announced at a hearing in State Supreme Court in the Bronx [....]

[....] the criminal case began to crumble when questions of Ms. Diallo’s credibility convinced the Manhattan district attorney’s office that it could not reasonably persuade a jury to trust her account. The case was dismissed in August 2011; court papers at the time described Ms. Diallo, an immigrant from Guinea, as having been “persistently, and at times inexplicably, untruthful in describing matters of both great and small significance.”

By then, Ms. Diallo had filed her civil suit in the Bronx, where she lives.

Mr. Strauss-Kahn has said the sex with Ms. Diallo was consensual, though in a French television interview after the criminal case was dismissed, he acknowledged that the encounter was “an error” and “a moral failure” that he would forever regret.

Judge McKeon also announced in court that Ms. Diallo and The New York Post had settled a lawsuit she filed against the newspaper for having reported that she worked as a prostitute. The newspaper cited anonymous sources [....]