Ex-IMF chief tells investigative author Edward Jay Epstein that he thinks furore over sex attack case was created by opponents

By Edward J. Epstein, guardian.co.uk, April 27, 2011

[....] That he took such breathtaking risks – knowing that he was about to put himself forward as a French presidential candidate, and suspecting as he did that he was under surveillance from his opponents – speaks of a certain sense of invulnerability. The party at the W hotel took place on 12 May – a day before he checked in at the Sofitel. That makes one wonder about his mindset. Was it that, as a man of huge international renown used to being courted around the world, he perhaps felt he was invincible, a Master of the Universe? [....]

My summary: I coulda been king of the world if not for the petit bourgeois plotting with les femmes (i.e. material) who don't know their place in the world. I woulda had Merkl begging for it.