Strauss-Kahn is accused of attacking the maid at the Sofitel hotel in Times Square around noon on Saturday after she entered his $3,000-a-night suite to clean it, thinking it was empty.
The millionaire moneyman had checked into Room 2805-6 a day earlier for a two-day jaunt, which his employer, the International Monetary Fund, said was for "personal business."
A male room-service worker told the maid the room was empty, law-enforcement sources said.
Following hotel policy, she parked her cart in the doorway to the suite, leaving the door ajar. She then entered the living-room area and announced herself to make sure again no one was inside.
When she didn't get an answer, she went to the bedroom to clean.
Strauss-Kahn strolled in naked from the bathroom, she told cops. The 32-year-old maid apologized and turned around to leave.
But she made it only as far as the foyer. Strauss-Kahn allegedly ran up behind her, grabbed her breasts, pushed the cart out of the door and locked it shut. He allegedly dragged her into the bedroom and tried to force her to perform oral sex.
The maid broke free and ran out of the bedroom, only to get caught again and dragged into the bathroom, where she was allegedly forced to perform oral sex on him, the sources said.
At one point, Strauss-Kahn tried to pull off her pantyhose and rape her, authorities said.
She escaped again and fled the room. She immediately reported the incident to her supervisor.
Security video shows Strauss-Kahn leaving his room at 12:28 p.m., and "he appeared to be a man who was in a hurry," Alonzo said.
He then met his daughter for lunch. "He had lunch at 12:45 p.m., so it's not an alibi," said a source close to the defense. "At the same time, he made a series of phone calls conducting business as usual. This business of him running out of the hotel is horses- - t."
After lunch, Strauss-Kahn hopped into in a rented black car to JFK for a 4:40 p.m. Air France flight to Paris,
Along the way, he called his wife to tell her he had a "serious problem," French media reported.
He also phoned the staff at Sofitel -- mistakenly thinking he'd left one of his several cellphones there, sources said.
By that time, cops were at the hotel -- and instructed staffers to tell him they had his phone and to ask where he was, the sources said. "Where are you? We'll get it to you," one staffer told him, according to the sources.
He said he was arriving at JFK for his flight -- and Port Authority cops pulled him off an Airbus 380 -- where he was sitting in first class -- at 4:38 p.m., two minutes before takeoff.
The detectives said he didn't have any obvious scratches or bruising. But he had $300 in cash and his hotel-room electronic swipe key, sources said.
Strauss-Kahn was brought to an East Harlem police station and picked out of a lineup by the maid the next day. He was No. 3 in a lineup of five men, sources said.
He spent most of that day in the precinct house, sitting on a wooden bench while his lawyers duked it out with the Manhattan DA's Office over possible bail and whether he would submit to DNA swabbing and a medical exam.
He eventually agreed to an exam and was whisked to Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn at around 11 p.m. Sunday, where he was forced to stand naked for photos.
The pictures could be used as evidence if they show any scratches or other marks, as if he'd been involved in a scuffle.
As the haughty-looking Frenchman awaited his arraignment yesterday morning, he sat on a bench with an accused unlicensed driver and two low-level drug dealers.
After his hearing, he was strip-searched like any other common criminal, and forced to undergo a complete body-cavity search.
He was then transferred to Rikers Island and placed in protective custody in a wing for sick inmates, as well as high-profile ones, a source said. He is in the cell alone.
Meanwhile, neighbors of the maid described her as an "extremely quiet," French-speaking immigrant from the West African nation of Guinea who lives with her teen daughter in The Bronx.
"She is extremely quiet. She only smiles at certain people," said neighbor Mark Gangadeen, adding that she wears a head scarf.
Another neighbor, Assetou Kamara, 33, said the woman is a devout Muslim.
The maid's brother said his sister "is very tired and needs a rest.
"She's a wonderful, hardworking woman, and she's in a lot of pain," the sibling said, adding that he has encouraged her to hire a lawyer.
Watching French TV, where reports blared that the alleged attack was a political set-up by Strauss-Kahn's enemies, the brother said, "I don't think that's fair. My sister's a very nice woman and not capable of that."
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