"Ex-French minister sues tycoon for paternity" by Elaine Ganley | Associated Press, November 11, 2012
PARIS — The tale is the latest in a series of amorous sideshows that has
spiced up the French political scene. These increasingly complicated
liaisons have gnawed away at the country’s long-standing veil of silence
over top politicians’ private lives.
Today, the press doesn’t shirk at recounting the jealousies of
President Francois Hollande’s live-in companion toward the mother of his
four children. Or Sarkozy’s divorce while in office after his wife had
an affair, and his quick remarriage to former model and singer Carla
Bruni. Or the series of sexual lawsuits involving Dominique
Strauss-Kahn, the former chief of the International Monetary Fund.
How the French media have fallen.
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How the French media have fallen.
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Can't fall much farther than that.
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Court rebuffs Strauss-Kahn in sex case
Nor has it held back with the Rachida Dati case. Le Monde published a story suggesting that Dati entertained a string of eight lovers at the time she was seeing 68-year-old Dominique Desseigne, the multimillionaire owner of luxury hotels and casinos....

Former French Justice Minister Rachida Dati had long refused to identify the father of her daughter (Laurent Rebours/ AP File).
She probably doesn't even know whose it is.
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