The case throws up a new headache for the Frenchman, who is in New York fighting sex assault charges that brought his career at the IMF crashing to an end and have likely killed his chances of running for French president next year.
Strauss-Kahn is expected to counter claim against Banon -- a routine procedure in such a case in France. His lawyers declined to comment on Friday.
Banon, 32, filed her complaint over an incident she alleges occurred in 2003 when she went to interview him.
Published 08 July 2011, 17:13 IST